Tunisian carrier Nouvelair plans to further grow its number of flights to former Yugoslav markets and will increase capacity by 50% this summer season compared to last year, after making additional modifications to its network over the past week. Despite the airline being a network carrier, its services to Banja Luka, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Skopje are all operated as regular charters, meaning they have a predefined schedule and run throughout the summer season, but tickets are sold exclusively through tour operators or as part of tour packages. This summer, the airline will offer a maximum capacity of 67.083 seats for its Belgrade flights, up 94.5% on last year, 11.682 for Banja Luka, an increase of 24% on the summer of 2023, 11.328 for Skopje, up 20.2%, 11.505 for Ljubljana, a decrease of 23%, but up on its previously filed schedule, and 9.204 seats on its Sarajevo operations, increasing 100% on 2023.
Nouvelair will run 10 weekly services between Monastir and Belgrade. In June and September one of the weekly flights will operate with a triangle routing Monastir - Banja Luka - Belgrade - Monastir. During September, the carrier will also run a one weekly service between the island of Djerba and the Serbian capital. Nouvelair will maintain two weekly flights from Monastir to Banja Luka, Skopje, and Ljubljana, as well as a one weekly service to Sarajevo, with exception to June, when there will be two weekly rotations to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital. All flights will be maintained by the 177-seat Airbus A320 aircraft.
Despite operating a weekly service between Monastir and Zagreb last year, from June until late September, the flights have not been added into the system for this year so far. There are currently no scheduled flights between any former Yugoslav market and Tunisia. National carrier Tunisair last maintained scheduled services to the region between Tunis and Belgrade in October 2021, after which flights were discontinued.
10 weekly flights to Belgrade is serious stuff. Especially for charter ops.
ReplyDeleteFrom June on Tueadays they have 4 daily flights to BEG. Departing MIR at 4.25, 4.30, 9.45, 22.30. Then another 2 on Wednesdays, 2 on Fridays and one each on Saturday and Sunday.
Delete*Tuesdays
DeleteThere used to be year round scheduled flights to Tunisia before the revolution there.
DeleteTunis is a relatively cheap and safe destination. You can get a weekly package for 400€.
DeleteThere are also Air Serbia regular charters to MIR. 4-5 weekly, depending on the week.
DeleteDefine "safe". Terror coups are always possible there and they have happened in the past, even within particularly protected hotel properties!
DeleteSeems like Tunisia is back
ReplyDeleteHow long does BNX-BEG last on A320?
ReplyDeleteAround 50 minutes
Delete30 minutes max.
DeleteThe flights are scheduled at 50 minutes by the airline but it will likely take less time.
DeleteATR BNX - BEG is 40 minutes so I guess 25-30.
DeleteATR needs around 35 minutes from Banja Luka to Belgrade. A320 should be faster, or
DeleteWould be nice if they could be bought outside of your operators
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteWhy don't they sell tickets online too? Like Air Cairo does.
DeleteThey just sell all the seats to tour operators. Easiest way to make money. You get the same amount of money regardless if the plane is full or empty. All risk is on the tour operator.
DeleteBanja Luka has more seat capacity than Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Skopje. Wow
DeleteIt makes sense. Tunis is dirty cheap and is trying to compete with Egipat. It is very close to Balkana. Me thinks that Croatia is no longer cheap and Tunis is attacking. They know this
ReplyDeleteHuh?
DeleteThey also intentionally put the logo in Latin and smaller in Arabic to be more recognisable. Same with Emirates logo, but the coolest feature is the T word in Arabic that looks like a smile in Emirates and Nouvel have chosen a more French name. We all know those marketing tricks.
DeleteI think you misunderstood the "smile" letter from Arabic, as the letter "noon" looks like smile not T
DeleteYou are wrong. Look carefully at the Emirates logo. The letter T has 2 dots and letter noon has one dot. It is al-Imarat. This is the ending ﺕ and they did it on purpose
DeleteWhy no flights to Montenegro?
ReplyDeleteUse logic man. They need tourist for their coast.
DeleteThey need their own people for the coast?
DeleteOh my they are ranked as 2 star airline by Scamtrax. Anyone flown with them?
ReplyDeleteA normal charter airline, nothing special. Skytrax doesn't really tell a lot about an airline.
DeleteFlew with them 2 years ago BEG-MIR. Nothing wrong, but nothing special either. 3* I'd say.
Delete^ Do you get some snacks or drinks on them?
DeleteHonestly I don't remember both flights were super early in the morning, I was very sleepy. I think we were offered water. No snacks.
DeleteNice to see Djerba flights back. There haven't been any in at least a decade.
ReplyDeleteI hope they add Enfidha in the future
DeleteSeems like they are the only airline flying between the region and Tunisia this summer
ReplyDeleteAir Serbia also also have 4-5 weekly flights to Monastir from June.
DeleteWell as far as I know for LJU, Tunisair also runs regular charters every year to Djerba but I am not sure.
DeleteThey have more flights than some scheduled airlines around.
ReplyDeleteHappy these are working out for Banja Luka
ReplyDeleteAt least something
DeleteNouvelair has my full support so they should expand even more! Hopefully they look into more cities in ex-YU
ReplyDeleteAre there any charters between Nis and Tunisia in the summer?
DeleteNo, I think only to Egypt.
DeleteLast year there were to Monastir.
DeleteThere are Monastir charters this year, operated by Air Serbia
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/04/air-serbia-plans-thirteen-charter.html
Odd that they have so many flights but no scheduled services.
ReplyDeleteNot really
DeleteHaven't been to Tunisia in ten year. Before that used to visit often. Is it still relatively affordable or have prices exploded?
ReplyDeleteIt is still cheap compared to other places.
DeleteVery cheap.
DeleteSo from where does the increase of the capacity for SKP flights come if they operate the same like last summer?
ReplyDeleteBecause they are starting fights earlier and ending later.
DeletePity there aren't any scheduled flights between any ex-Yu country and Tunisia. There were year round Tunisair flights from Tunis to Belgrade until Covid started and then they just never came back.
ReplyDelete11 A320s.
ReplyDeleteResults of capacity match to Tunsia:
ReplyDeleteBelgrade - Zagreb
67.083 : 0
Not including seats by Air Serbia