Air Serbia to open Niš call centre, balancing service and lounge

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Air Serbia will open a call centre and aircraft balancing service in Niš, while it is also planning to develop a special business lounge at Constantine the Great Airport. The carrier will initially employ forty individuals at its Niš call centre, after 400 candidates applied for the job opening. The airline is now sourcing office space in the city’s downtown. Furthermore, an aircraft balancing service in Niš, through its daughter company Air Serbia Ground Services (ASGS), will be launched, initially employing ten people. Air Serbia also plans to open a business lounge at Niš Airport, once the latter’s ongoing terminal expansion is completed, which is expected next year. “We are very satisfied with the response the advertised positions have received, as well as the fact that we identified excellent candidates. Additionally, as the national airline, we are extremely proud that we can contribute to the employment rate and local economic development of this part of Serbia. Our Niš base is very important for Air Serbia, and we plan to additionally bolster our presence in the south of Serbia. In the coming period, as part of the works on the completion of the new terminal, we are planning to open a special business lounge. We are also considering the possibility of adding more technicians who would work on fleet maintenance”, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, said.

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  1. Anonymous10:43

    Maybe JU should add some new routes?
    Just asking... for a friend...

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    1. Anonymous10:43

      From what I can gather, they will probably wait for the terminal to be completed.

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    2. Anonymous12:10

      Why?
      They are stagnating in Nis.
      Stagnation in any business, especially in aviation leads to decline...

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    3. Anonymous12:30

      How do you know they are stagnating? All the routes they operate in Nis are subsidised by the state.

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    4. Anonymous13:28

      The only non-PSO route to ZRH has failed with afordable ticket prices. There is no sustainable interest for fluying from Niš except LCC and leisure charters.

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    5. Anonymous13:45

      INI has much more potential for leisure charter flights especially with the new terminal in construction:

      https://www.exyuaviation.com/2022/06/photos-nis-airport-construction-update.html

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    6. Anonymous15:34

      You cannot know that unless you are the CEO or working in AirSerbia finance department. Failure to open up a commercial line to Zurich when they offered the service during only one week in December is not a reliable indicator that AirSerbia is stagnating. It is worrying that they only offer subsidised routes for sure but I guess they do not want to hire 50 people and build a lounge in the new terminal if they are stagnating

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    7. Anonymous20:08

      More flights to Banja Luka and Ohrid!

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  2. Anonymous10:44

    Let’s make this airport like BEG, a international airport which can make flight in JFK, ORD..

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    1. Anonymous12:18

      Dude ....

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    2. Anonymous16:08

      Yes.... Niš-Lagos

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    3. Anonymous17:04

      100%, perhaps also focus on Lagos too, great additions to INI incoming haha

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    4. Anonymous20:35

      Maybe a triangle line with Maribor to Kigali

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  3. Anonymous10:52

    Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

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  4. Anonymous11:02

    Can someone explain what is aircraft balancing service?

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    1. Anonymous11:27

      This. And also why do they need 40 people for a call centre.

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    2. Meyraf11:49

      If you operate 24/7, as a call centre should, it’s just eight people per shift. Count in administrative structure, holidays and other leaves, they’ll regularly have five to six people per shift. That’s not that many.

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    3. Anonymous14:38

      Ok, and whats an aircraft balancing service? Balansero :)

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    4. Anonymous14:48

      I presume this refers to load planning. In this process, it is defined how baggage, cargo and passengers should be placed within the aircraft, in order to ensure the plane is balanced out and the loads distributed evenly, respectively within the specifications of the aircraft in order to ensure a safe flight.

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    5. Anonymous11:02 - balancing service is how the freight (and passengers) are laid out in the aircraft. Lufthansa has its own company Global Load Control in Belgrade since 2019. Actually it's one of their two centers (the other being in Cape Town where GLC is headquartered).

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  5. Miroslav NY12:02

    Give Nis a decade and it will be handling two-three million passengers a year.

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    1. Anonymous13:21

      But the contract with Vinci in Beograd does not allow it to have more than 1 million and sadly there seems to be some kind of stagnation as someone mentioned above. INI lost a couple of routes compared to BEG.

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  6. Anonymous12:24

    Opening an own lounge makes no sense with the current and probably also the future amount of traffic. Let Airports of Serbia build and operate the lounge.

    Does JU offer a business class out of INI?

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    1. Anonymous12:29

      They don't. It says a "special" business lounge. So there is probably some catch

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    2. Anonymous17:49

      INI can't produce enough yield to keep some of ULCC routes, let alone for business class lounge. What kind of "special business" lounge are we talking about? Kladionica?

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    3. Anonymous23:28

      Probably, they were kindly asked to open it, or they have big plans.

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  7. Anonymous12:34

    If they include the lounge with the Priority Pass, sure. If they dont, they dont really need it.

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    1. Anonymous12:51

      LoungeKey please

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  8. Anonymous13:13

    Marek je nedavno izjavio da se pojavila interesantna ponuda za iznajmljivanje A319 i da je ozbiljno razmatraju. Možda planiraju bazu u Nišu.

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    1. Anonymous14:39

      With the current lack of equipment for planned BEG operations, I highly doubt it

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  9. Anonymous14:49

    How much lower are salaries compared to Belgrade? 400 applications is a lot.

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    1. Anonymous16:12

      Beg 800€, Ini 500€

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  10. Anonymous18:35

    They need to make the seasonal routes out of INI year-round. Like INI-ATH could perform pretty good during winter time too.

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  11. Anonymous15:51

    Does anyone know why Air Serbia recently changed some of their departures to odd times, like 17.07 or 20.32?

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