Over the 2024 summer season, from March 31 until October 26, Air Montenegro plans to introduce four new routes and increase frequencies across its network. The carrier will commence services from Podgorica to Munich and Ostrava, while maintaining operations to Rome launched over the winter, as well as from Tivat to Baku and Izmir. The airline will boost frequencies across the board, notably adding an additional daily rotation between Tivat and Belgrade during the peak summer period. Furthermore, the carrier will maintain services between Podgorica and Ljubljana throughout the summer season, unlike last year, when the route was paused for several months, during which flights were operated between Tivat and the Slovenian capital instead. Air Montenegro does not plan to restore services between Tivat and Banja Luka.
This upcoming summer season, Air Montenegro will operate two of its own Embraer E195 aircraft. It will also wet-lease an E190 jet from Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines starting April 1, as well as an Airbus A320 aircraft from Croatia’s Trade Air from late March. Furthermore, the Montenegrin flag carrier hopes to secure the dry-lease for an additional two Embraers, either the E190 or E195 or a combination of the two. A decision on the lease will be made next month when a tender for their procurement is concluded. This year, Air Montenegro is targeting passenger growth of 35% on last year’s 480.000 travellers.
Please note that the changes listed below are preliminary and based on current availability in the Global Distribution System (GDS). Furthermore, the table below displays the peak weekly frequency on each route during the course of the summer season. Increases in frequencies on select routes may not come into effect until later on in the summer. A review of Air Serbia’s and Croatia Airlines’ summer season network will be published in the coming days.
Departing Podgorica
Departing Tivat
Impressive network!
ReplyDeleteVery funny!
Delete87 weekly departures for an airline founded 3 years ago isn't bad at all
Delete@9.09 I was being serious. For a small airline with 4 planes, that is a pretty good range of destinations.
DeleteWhen will they start selling tickets for connecting flights via TGD?
ReplyDeleteWhen they change their reservation system provider.
DeleteTheir network growth is slow, yet steady.
ReplyDelete@Ex-Yu i think you omitted Zurich from the table and map. It operates 4 weekly.
ReplyDeleteDestinations like Ostrava, Brno, Bratislava, Nantes and Baku, just wow. I mean, even BEG has no flights to those. Bravo Air Montenegro!
ReplyDeleteCharters.
DeleteThey are scheduled flights, but catering for tourists from those countries
Deletescheduled charters, they fly on behalf of tourist agencies from those countries which have reserved the bulk of seats on these flights
DeleteEven BEG... LMAO!!!
DeleteSome destinations are a real surprise. Strange they didn't plan flights to Banja Luka
DeleteCan they maintain this sort of network with so few aircraft?
ReplyDeleteThey are leasing extra capacity for the summer season.
DeleteMontenegro keeps winning!
ReplyDelete😂😂😂
DeleteThey need to launch ATH
ReplyDeleteWhy? I don't think they can be competitive against Aegean.
DeleteA3 flies 180 seat A320s. How can Air Montenegro compete with that?
DeleteNice. I think the number of charters will be down this summer, which has allowed them to add more scheduled routes.
ReplyDelete35% passenger growth will bring them to around 640,000 passengers. Not bad at all.
ReplyDeleteThey have the same number of routes from TGD like OU has from ZAG…
ReplyDeleteYeah right...
DeleteTheir frequencies from TGD only goes to show how the only real P2P demand is to Belgrade.
ReplyDeletePlease explain to us what "real" demand means.
DeleteWhy do you need any addtional explanations when the table makes it pretty obvious.
DeleteNo, the table doesn't explain what is "real" demand and what is "fake" demand. But your bias does.
DeleteYou obviously have some issues with Belgrade, Nikola Tesla Airport and Serbia.
DeleteTGD-BEG has 14 weekly flights by Air Montenegro while Paris and Zurich which are major global hubs have 4 weekly and are operated by one airline.
Meanwhile Serbia's national carrier and the region's dominant carrier operates this route 21 times per week. So total number of frequencies on BEG-TGD goes up to 36 weekly flights.
Now tell me, what is the second busiest destination from TGD?
Second busiest is Istanbul with 28 weekly flights (Turkish 18, Pegasus 7, Air Montenegro 3). Although this is less weekly departures, capacity wise it's probably very close to BEG route.
DeleteRegion's DOMINANT airline?
DeleteAnd then compare the size of BEG with IST/SAW and you will see why only BEG has so much P2P demand.
DeleteFlights to Turkey from TGD will decrease once offer to Russia stabilizes. TK is almost exclusively carrying Russian passengers. Everyone who lives in MNE knows that.
Anon 22.56
Indeed, region's dominant carrier operating short, medium and long-haul flights from its BEG hub as well as operating secondary hubs in INI and KVO. A highly profitable airline which is about to embark on a new round of long-haul expansion.
Lots and lots of words, but still no definition of "real demand". Why am I not surprised my comment triggered a defensive essay, but no actual definition?
Delete@22.56 secondary "HUBS"(!) , Kraljevo and Nis?? :D:D it may be dominant in their own country but outside of it its a minor player. there are exyu markets where they dont even have a market share of 2%
DeleteFor the short time they have been in operation, their network looks more than decent.
ReplyDeletePity for Banja Luka. They need all the traffic they can get.
ReplyDeleteFor its size and population, MNE has its own airline a very decent nework, has 2 well operational airports. Very quickly managed to rebuild a new airline compared to sleepy Slovenia much bigger i size and economically stronger. They are finding new markets such as Czechia. Great job!
ReplyDeleteIn reality it's questionable if they even need two airports. Most ex-YU airports were built at a time when profitability was not an issue. Just look at how many airports struggle to survive.
Deletesleepy Slovenia pumped enough money into a deficit national airline, MNE is repeating their mistakes
DeleteThe two are not comparable. Take a look at where Slovenia and Montenegro are geographically. Air travel is essential for Montenegro and its tourism industry.
DeleteDBV is round the corner so its not that out of way
DeleteThey need teo airports cuz they have horrible roads
DeleteSleepy Slovenia, with over 50 billion euros in exports. Your “sleepy Slovenia” is an economic powerhouse compared to MNE economy. And thank heavens we’re not pumping one cent into JP.
DeleteNot to mention Slovenia’s unemployment rate at less than 4% compared to MNE’s what, 17%? Don’t say foolish things like “sleepy Slovenia” and expect no pushback. Having its own national airline is no sign of a successful country. There are many more metrics than that.
Delete^ you might want to calm down and tone down your nationalism. Not the first time you go nuts when someone mentions Slovenia should have a national airline. Learn to accept others opinions without the need to insult them. Being from such an economic powerhouse, you show very little level of tolerance. Maybe you missed that lesson in the economic powerhouse.
DeleteIt's not nationalism, it's facts
DeleteActually this network shows Air Montenegro is much smarter than Montenegro Airlines. Their network is primarily focused on bringing tourists to the country. Montenegro Airlines was primarily focused on unprofitable P2P routes for local population and diaspora.
ReplyDeleteLjubljana is actually +3 right?
ReplyDeleteNo. It operated last year 3 weekly too. There must won't be a two month stop in flights.
DeleteIt will be 3 weekly from Tivat and 3 weekly from Podgorica
DeleteYes. But it was always shifting from podgorica to tivat… now they will fly both
DeleteWhat is the expectation for Izmir? Is it for tourists from Turkey to visit Tivat, or the other way around?
ReplyDeleteObviously for Turks
DeleteWhat's next? Bringing locals from Antalya?
DeleteIzmir is the 3rd largest city of Turkey....
DeleteHave they ever flown to SJJ?
ReplyDeleteThey flew it as a charter for a few weeks last summer.
DeleteSo no scheduled flights, ok, ty.
DeleteTGD-SJJ was scheduled
DeleteI forgot that TIA-SJJ was a charter route. Anyways, what were the loads on TGD-SJJ?
DeleteIf someone happened to know, that is.
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