NEWS FLASH
Air Serbia has today taken delivery of its fourth wide-body Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The jet, registered YU-ARE, is ten years old and was formerly operated by Etihad Airways and Air Belgium. It was in storage between 2019 and 2022. The aircraft arrived from Dusseldorf where it underwent maintenance over the past five months. The A330-200 has received Air Serbia’s EXPO 2027 decals. Similar to the third A330 delivered to Air Serbia last year, the plane features the Etihad cabins, including 22 business class seats in a 1-2-1 layout, and the remaining 240 in economy in a 2-4-2 configuration. The airline has also secured additional seats of the same type for any required replacements during its operation with the Serbian airline.
.jpeg)
Can someone please tell me what their plans are with 4 planes? Ok, one will be kept as backup but with three A330 can we expect a new long-haul route or more frequencies on routes they already have?
ReplyDeleteIs Pupin going to get a new cabin and when?
All of your questions have already been answered.
DeleteThey said they are considering Beijing or adding frequencies to Shanghai or Guangzhou.
DeleteThey have said YU-ARB should undergo cabin replacement this year
Thank you Anon 13.53
DeleteBravo JU 🎉 👏
Delete13:53 ARC*
DeleteIts time for MIA!
ReplyDeleteI second that
DeleteI don't. YYZ first for summer timetable, MIA second for winter timetable.
DeleteRealisticaly, it could be both on a rotational basis.
DeleteWelcome Expo2!!! Godspeed!!!
ReplyDeleteDoes current schedule allow for family portrait of all Air Serbia A330s in the same picture? Would be nice to have that photo.
ReplyDeleteSounds great:)
DeleteIdemo dalje...
ReplyDeleteIdemo...😃
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldwS5V8YKo&ab_channel=BelgradeAviator
ReplyDeleteBravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteHonestly super proud of JU accomplishment. They come from a small and not very rich country, however they build up an airline that is much better then some coming from EU where they are able to get much more financial help.
ReplyDeleteFinancial help in EU is illegal.
Delete^ sure it is
Deletehttps://aviationnews-online.com/public/article/italian-government-to-infuse-400-million-in-ita-airways
Or how Germany protects Lufthansa's interests.
DeleteSo, if someone else is doing that in the wrong way with public money - then it is ok to do it in your own country and be proud of company "accomplishment". Wow, great logic strikes.
DeleteNot at all, people were just responding to the false claim that "Financial help in EU is illegal." Read what was written before you have a meltdown.
DeleteSerbian government invested in its own business and so far it seems like the investment has paid off. Is JU perfect? God no. Are they better than Jat Airways? Yes, absolutely.
DeleteState aid is a problem when it is used to perpetually invest in a project that is going nowhere. Here the government used tax money to reform a business back in 2013 from which those same tax payers profited the most.
The whole thing with EU somehow protecting fair market competition in air traffic is such a charade when a single consortium (Lufthansa) is allowed to control Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, Brussels, and ITA. Just draw that catchment area on the map of Europe and it must be clear that any actual competition-protecting body would have at some point blocked these deals.
DeleteDon't forget Air Baltic which they are also buying.
DeleteSubsidies in EU are illegal as a rule, subject to exceptions. The exceptions are often the rule when it comes to big Member states (Germany, France and Italy mostly), because they have most fiscal capacity to give State aid left and right, and the Commission will rarely challenge them. Political reasons and too big too fail logic. So "financial help is illegal in the EU" must be taken with a great pinch of salt. As people have said here, there are numerous examples to the contrary and it is mostly competitors who insist on full enforcement of EU State aid law (Ryanair mostly).
DeleteThat said, some exceptions to the State aid rules make a lot of sense, and governments are allowed by EU law to subsidies certain routes, regional connectivity, public interest routes etc. For instance Ryanair would not fly empty planes on regional routes in winter, just so that a couple of students can attend a bar exam in the capital, or cancer patients needing a screening on apparatus that is not available in a small distant region- could reach Zagreb from Dubrovnik or Athens from Crete etc etc.
So is this the “spare”? Or will they rotate the spare amongst the 4?
ReplyDelete