Air Serbia to take delivery of eighth ATR

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Air Serbia is set to take delivery of its eighth ATR72-600 aircraft in the coming weeks with the turboprop currently being painted in the airline's livery (pictured). The eight-year-old plane, formerly operated by Azul, will be registered YU-ASF. Air Serbia concluded an agreement with Nordic Aviation Capital for the dry-lease of three ATR72-600s, which will bring the airline's turboprop fleet up to ten aircraft. All deliveries are expected in the coming months. Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, said last year, “The optimal size of the ATR72 fleet, I would say, is ten because then you can start benefiting from some economies of scale. The ATRs perform extremely well; they are extremely profitable. We went through a massive project and completely grounded the ATR72-200s and -500s, replacing them with the -600s instead. We will continue to grow this regional fleet as it is important for higher frequencies and improving hub connectivity and ultimately helps to expand long-haul".



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  1. Anonymous13:40

    Maribor incoming

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    1. Anonymous14:06

      Omg why you guys always spam with Maribor, it's never gonna happen.

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    2. Anonymous14:14

      Brac coming

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    3. Anonymous14:25

      @14:06 Yeah like its the busiest airport in the world and it is a must. @13:40 Will you ever use this route or just spamming?

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    4. Anonymous14:30

      well, Brac once a week seasonally on the weekend, that is a no-brainer. how could that not work?

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    5. Anonymous14:34

      As someone who drives from Maribor to Zagreb to get anywhere (prices in Graz are abnormal) I would certainly use the route- and I'm not alone

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    6. Anonymous15:37

      Iasi/Chisnau, Cluj coming

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    7. Anonymous16:17

      Daily 2x Kraljevo and 3x Nis to actually provide connectivity for Serbian citizens?

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    8. Anonymous18:13

      Lol. Are you willing to pay for it?

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    9. Anonymous09:02

      Portoroz in sight?

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    10. Anonymous11:27

      Some are joking here, but considering that they covered everything else in exYu, Portorož, Maribor, Brač and domestic Serbian flights are all that left to do. Osijek and Tuzla are off as they are too close.

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    11. Anonymous14:11

      Nis is closer then Tuzla, but there are connection flights

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  2. Anonymous13:46

    Hopefully they will have enough pilots for it

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  3. Anonymous13:56

    Great, ATR ultimately helps to expand long-haul. Why stop at 10, Air Serbia should order more ATRs to enable long-haul expansion to even more countries.

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    1. Anonymous14:12

      They will have more than 10 ATR's in the future. Marek was talking about this and next couple years.

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    2. Slav.Man15:35

      They will definitely grow more than 10. But after they grow the long haul routes and will definitely help when the introduce the 2nd daily jfk route

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    3. Anonymous16:18

      2nd daily to JFK? They barely have passangers for 2 weekly in winter time :)

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    4. Anonymous16:26

      16:18 Mr Slav.Man is talking about the summer period, where Air Serbia, if you don't know, operates daily flights to JFK.

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    5. Anonymous16:28

      In the summer that is, to add to my reply.

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    6. Slav.Man00:08

      thanks to previos commenter yes I meant for summer season. but also for @16:18 yes JU carries less in the winter than the summer season, but because it operates less flights. however the flights it does operate have about 80% passanger load on the JFK route. which shows there is positive signs to increase frequency. thats what was reported by ex-yu in july 2023.

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  4. Anonymous14:02

    The first pic shows how would the freighter version look like in JU livery, and it's great!

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  5. Anonymous14:15

    Why YU-ASF, not YU-ASE? If someone knows. YU-ASC has already been skipped.

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    1. Anonymous14:25

      YU-ASC and YU-ASE will be the other two ATR's.

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  6. Anonymous15:12

    Bravo JU 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

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  7. Anonymous16:45

    Chapeau, Srbijo and JU from Bulgaria. Safe travels and more customers. Балканът напред и нагоре!

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  8. Anonymous19:42

    Here is a trip report from my flight the other day, 100% full SJJ-BEG ATR72-600 :) many connections, we had ORD from BEG at 5pm (3-4 ppl) and some to Frankfurt, as well as others...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDUD3RZxm6Y

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    1. Anonymous21:55

      100 % LF u naj sporijem mesecu u godini je ravno naučno-fantastici. Dobar posao radi JU u SJJ,a dolaskom novih ATR SJJ sigurno dobija noćne letove.

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    2. Anonymous22:52

      Nadam se da ožive planove o noćnim letovima BEG-SJJ.

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    3. Anonymous23:36

      ^ I was just surprised that it was an ATR and that STILL we have no night-flights to SJJ.. ali i ovako svaka cast, usluga je bila super, Bosanci su bili odusevljeni par starija Gospoda su pricali "svaka cast mnogo ste ljubazni" :')

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  9. Anonymous20:24

    Where is it being painted?

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  10. Anonymous11:37

    What is their fleet now?

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  11. Anonymous16:50

    How do you these pictures? Do you go there or someone sends these to you?

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  12. notLufthansa21:04

    I hear it will be named Đasmin Bajić ;)

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  13. Anonymous14:49

    Do they have enough engineers

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