Air Serbia has begun loading its network modifications into the Global Distribution System for the 2024 summer season, which begins on March 31, with several routes seeing a notable increase in weekly frequencies, although additional adjustments are expected in the coming period. Notably, the Serbian carrier plans to boost frequencies on its service between Belgrade and Bucharest from last summer’s eight to nine weekly to double daily flights. Operations to Paris will increase from double daily to eighteen weekly, while Barcelona will grow from nine weekly to twelve weekly rotations. An additional six weekly flights will be added on the Frankfurt service, increasing from seven weekly to thirteen weekly.
The Serbian carrier also plans to increase services to Thessaloniki from eight to eleven weekly, Moscow to nineteen weekly rotations, Palma de Mallorca and St Petersburg from three to five weekly, while flights to Corfu, launched last summer, will be doubled from two to four weekly. An additional weekly service will be added on flights to Milan (eleven weekly), Venice (five weekly), Valencia and Madrid (four weekly), as well as Kazan and Lisbon (three weekly). Based on the existing additions to the network, Air Serbia is set to operate its busiest summer season to date, however, more adjustments in frequencies are expected, along with the addition of new routes.
Frequency growth for the abovementioned destinations will be introduced at varying points during the summer season, with the number of flights increasing progressively during the summer season on most routes. Air Serbia has previously emphasised that densifying its network with additional frequencies will be a priority during the upcoming summer season. The carrier’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently said, “Air Serbia’s plans for 2024 are oriented towards improving our offer and upgrading our services. We have plans to launch new routes between Belgrade and China and we are working diligently on this. Apart from China, we will also try to add some new cities in Europe and the region to the network and increase the frequency of daily and weekly flights to our most popular existing destinations”.
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ReplyDeleteZagreb and Ljubljana are staying at 14 per week?
ReplyDelete"additional adjustments are expected in the coming period."
DeleteZagreb is at 16 weekly and I don't think it's final.
I believe they are waiting to have firm dates when they will get the additional ATRs before scheduling extra frequencies (and scheduling new regional routes).
DeleteI think regional routes are dependent on the arrival of the new ATRs. Maybe @exyu can give us an answer on approximate delivery date?
Delete^ I don't think even Air Serbia knows when they will arrive.
DeleteLJU will be 17 weekly
DeleteIf LJU will be 17 weekly, it's going to be a downgrade compared to winter schedule
DeleteHow is it going to be a decrease if Ljubljana is currently maintained 16 weekly. Some of you just write nonsense.
DeleteIt was operating 19x weekly at the start and slowly decreased because of the E195 being late.
DeleteStarted with 19 weekly, currently 16, increase to 17 in March.
DeleteAgain it was written that not all the increases are scheduled, so why the drama?
DeleteNo drama at all, someone here is attacking people left and right. If in summer LJU will be operating 17x weekly this will mean a decrease compared to winter schedule. Nothing more, nothing less
DeleteBut you don't know how many frequencies they will operate next summer.
DeleteOsijek, as a feeder flight for ZAG-BEG route
DeleteKVO
DeleteCongratulations but also disappointment. Air Serbia will not increase frequencies to Banja Luka. 2pw is nothing. Shame with all new ATRs
DeleteFinally Madrid is up. Even though it's just 4 weekly.
ReplyDeleteBravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteIt is logical to focus on existing routes and increasing frequencies, rather than opening numerous new routes. Also, big increase for Russia, I guess all routes are performing well.
ReplyDeleteThe increase for Russia sounds logical to me, there is almost no competition. Next time I am going there I am certainly avoiding IST airport, what a sh**show it was
DeleteWhat happened at IST?
DeleteIST is a mess, is insanely big. Crazy long taxing after landing. Rude ground staff (including TK personnel, lazy and unprofessional), takes too much to go anywhere, always risk to lose the next flight when connecting. It made other airports that people dislike for transit look like best in class (FRA, CDG)
DeleteFully agree. I was connecting once in IST late in the evening. Super long walk from one gate to another. Not easy with small children.
DeleteAnd then TK gave us four seats spread all over the plan (rows from 2 to 36). My four years old was supposed to sit by himself. Very unprofessional. Even Ryan would not do that.
Not the best experience, neither with IST nor with TK.
Considering I blasted something like 12K euro for business class seats, is a safe bet I am not flying with TK no more (I was going to AUH, not Australia)
DeleteAŠP getting a heart attack by reading this! Hahahaha
ReplyDeleteAirSerbia was 300.000 passengers away from AirBaltic in 2023, hopefully we will se bigger figures in 2024 and AirSerbia overtaking AirBaltic!
Hahaha!
DeleteWhat is your point ? And Sky express with less airplanes ( 23 ) than Air serbia's ( 31 ) in 2023 and much less destinations , they are gonna have 500.000 more than Air Serbia.
DeleteDo you realize that it's not about planes but about capacity. An airline can have 10 A380s in its fleet and have more capacity than Sky Express.
DeleteBut Air Serbia has more capacity than Sky express .
DeleteIn 2023, SkyExpress had more capacity than Air Serbia, with 5.9 million seats on scheduled services.
DeleteSkyExpress operates hop flights in greece, so with one atr they can provide a lot more capacity on daily basis compared to a330 from air serbia, so the seat capacity offering isn't directly connected to the fleet numbers
DeleteSkyExpress operates on 90+ domestic and international routes, so it is not true that they have less routes then JU.
DeleteSky Express (what is their code?) until 2-3 years ago flew only domestic with ATRs.
DeleteBUT the Greek domestic market is the 5th largest in European Union. Of course they have large numbers of pax and they are probably profitable because they can fly a lot of flights each day with a single aircraft.
Sky Express (GQ) is an alternative to Aegean and many Greeks actually prefer it over A3. Think about that they fly ATH-SKG one of the strongest domestic markets in the world if I’m not wrong.
DeleteThe route is operated just 12-14 times per day if i am not wrong. There are many other domestic routes in the world which are operated more then this one. The busiest one is Seoul - Jeju and i think that there are over 90 daily flights on this domestic routes, A330s are deployed as well.
Delete@anonymous 09:40 , Sky express does not have 90+ destinations . They have 33 domestic , 11 european from ATH and 4 seasonals from HER .
Deletenot true.
DeleteAs i said, they offer 55 domestic routes and 81 international services ( scheduled and charter ) making s total of 130 routes during the summer.
DeleteWell, you don't know what you're talking about.
DeleteI perfectly know what i am talking about. Go and inform your self more before commenting here.
DeleteWe're talking about destinations not routes. Stop embarrassing yourself.
DeleteThe big increase on Bucharest routes indicates to me we may see new routes in Roamnia this summer.
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DeleteThey were in talks with Cluj recently.
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2023/11/cluj-airport-in-talks-with-air-serbia.html
Would make sense. Especially with LH suspending flights there.
DeleteIasi has just opened their new terminal this week, which might be an opportunity as well. They now have the second-largest capacity in all of Romania.
DeleteThey will fly to Cluj-Napoca and also to Baku (Alijev was in Serbia in December...) because thats the nearest East-West direction. For example: Baku-Portugal or Baku-Spain or Baku-Montenegro has a good conectivity through Belgrade. We can also expect Georgia, Ireland and Finnland soon...
DeleteThat would be great
DeleteNo Ireland flights until visas for Serbian passports are in place. Unfortunately Ireland is stuck with the UK, the only country that requires visas for SRB.
DeleteBetter Chisinau than Iasi
Delete@Rebel Because of war, Moldova has poor connectivuty and Iasi wants to serve as a HUB for Moldova and Ukraine
DeleteIf Moldova has poor connectivity because of war that's even a better reason to start KIV. Wizz is already back and LH will start in April for the first time.
DeleteAt this point KIV is not an real option in my opinion because of the fact that we Serbs are not allowed to even enter Moldova. I had a problem at their border in April, waited for couple of hours, they made me to take of my shirt to check is there any tattoos and eventually they let me in but when I walked through the city police asked for my ID many times during that 3 days trip. After that I know many cases where Serbian passport holders were not let into a country. I doubt that at this time JU would start a route exclusively for foreign transfers and I do not see it coming until this issue is resolved
DeleteLet's just hope they don't have to cancel their frequency growth plans like last summer.
ReplyDeleteIn 2023 last date of announce about new destinations was 23 January. Today is 24 January
ReplyDeleteSo what?
DeleteNot only that. Some direct season routes operated last year are not in the system yet.
DeleteBelgrade - Skopje will have E195 deployed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, although frequencies remain at 14 times per week now. Still some increase in available seats.
ReplyDeleteI meant the E195 will be deployed on one daily rotation on those three days, the second one remains with ATR72.
DeleteGood to see jet engine planes on this route. Much more comfortable, especially their Embraers are nice.
DeleteGood to see growth
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the new routes
ReplyDeleteSoon
Deletewe already know Mostar, Guangzhou and Shanghai.
DeleteMy guess for new routes this year is 2 new long haul route - Shanghai and Beijing and 4-5 short haul routes plus frequency growth.
DeleteThey didnt mention that Beijing would be launched. They already serve Tianjin and Hainan serves Beijing.
DeleteSorry, meant to write Shanghai and Guangzhou.
DeleteBrac?
DeleteGreat news about CDG! Up to three daily is a nice increase, although I'm sure flights will be packed in July and August due to the Olympics.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am noticing is that they are much more cautious with scheduling the frequency increases because they don't want a repeat of last year. They are probably waiting for guarantees regarding aircraft.
ReplyDeleteTrue. That is why they are waiting to increase New York to more than daily.
DeleteThey always load heir schedule very late in comparison with other airlines.
DeleteIt is amazing how the Barcelona route has developed
ReplyDeleteAnd the Spanish market in general
DeleteAdd to that Wizz competition and really Barcelona is killing it, especially in contrast to Madrid
DeleteI'm glad they are putting more focus on increasing frequencies.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Corfu worked really well for them last year
ReplyDeleteHope they have sorted out their fleet plans for next summer and they planned much better than last year.
ReplyDeleteGood news. Happy Palma is working out for them. Cofu too.
ReplyDeleteGet ready for a plethora of cancellations :D
ReplyDeleteGo troll and be miserable somewhere else.
DeleteIs it possible to calculate how many additional seats will this increase bring compared to last year capacity?
ReplyDeleteIs there gonna be charter flights to Djerba in Tunisia? Or only Monastir will be served by AirSerbia?
ReplyDeleteMoscow 19 weekly, St.Petersburg 5 weekly, Kazan 3 weekly: just bravo, spasiba!
ReplyDeleteThessaloniki 11 weekly and Corfu 4 weekly!! Nice to see that greek summer seasonal routes worked for JU. They need to launch Mykonos or Santorini now.
ReplyDeleteA ovako će izgledati novi A330
ReplyDeletehttps://ibb.co/fkRQQqx
Every time i see this pic it's in lower res
DeleteTired of their special liveries. It's like a child has been playing.
DeleteWho is the lessor of additional two A330s?
Deletelooks cool
Deletelol its not THE expo.
Delete^ so what? That's the logo and that's how it's officially written. What's your problem?
DeleteCan't wait for more delays, cancellations and messups from Air Serbia! Long live JU and passengers left behind without any compensation paid!
ReplyDeleteHopefully Miami soon...
ReplyDeleteNext year
DeleteThey have silently increased frequency to Moscow. At the beginning of the war, when all European airlines closed their Russian routes, Air Serbia tried to increase its weekly frequency from 7 to 14 and after some western politicians expressed their displeasure, they stood at 7.
ReplyDeleteSo, now they have 14.
DeleteAnd no one cares anymore.
DeleteGlad to see increases across their network! I bought today a ticket to Madrid in April, but I am a little bit disappointed we got a Klas Jet Boing on both flights. I hope there will be some last minute changes and we get a Airbus flight eventually :)
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