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The fourth Airbus A330-200 aircraft in Air Serbia’s fleet, delivered two weeks ago and registered YU-ARE, has entered into revenue service on the airline’s behalf. The 262-seat jet made its debut for Air Serbia yesterday morning on a flight between Belgrade and Rome, initially scheduled to operate with an A319 aircraft. YU-ARE is the second wide-body jet to be incorporated into the carrier’s fleet in four months, following the A330-200 registered YU-ARD, which entered into service on October 18, 2024, also boasting 262 seats. Air Serbia now has two A330-200s with 262 seats, one with 257 seats and one with 268 seats. The latter two are planned to be retrofitted in the coming period in order for their capacity and cabins to match those of the latest two wide-body additions.
Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
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DeleteAre there any plans for opening route to Miami/Florida
DeleteGreat news. Hopefully it will help cover the 6 weekly departures (12 weekly flights in total) in total currently to JFK, ORD, CAN and PVG so that Pupin can get its new cabin.
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DeletePupin isn’t scheduled after 28.02., if I am not wrong. So it should go to cabin retrofit immediately
DeleteYU-ARC is currently out of service from February 26 (last flight, arriving from Shanghai) until April 1 (first flight to Shanghai). Changes remain possible.
DeleteGreat news!
DeleteThank you for insigts in the schedule.
You are welcome. It should be noted that the airline has not confirmed the aircraft will be undergoing a retrofit during this period, it could be undergoing scheduled maintenance. Will try to clarify though.
DeleteThanks, but I think there's no way to finish complete cabin retrofit in only one month, Even regular maintenance could not be done in that period.
DeleteI am really curious can they make money if sending a big bird to inter-continent flights. It is cool to see this plane in Rome, but I wonder can this be profitable in the long run?
ReplyDeleteFor goodness sake its a familiarization flight for the crew.
DeleteIf their fares are not dirt cheap they can make money. It all depends what your potential revenue is, not so much what equipment you send.
DeleteAlso, in winter it's not so much if you can make money but rather if you can not spend everything you made in summer.
anon 13:56 when you start with incorrect assumptions, you end up with incorrect conclusions. Air Serbia doesn't plan to run this aircraft on short haul routes, therefore no need to worry if that will be profitable for them. It's just a first flight. QR operates DOH-BAH 150km flight with widebody all the time but that doesn't keep you up at night.
DeleteMany airlines in Europe fly widebodies regularly on flights with duration between 1.5 - 4 hours long.
DeleteAir Europa, Iberia, BA, Swiss, Edelweiss , TK, TUI, El Al, Lufthansa.
Of course. This is not an analytics expert blog to claim that kind of nonsenses
DeleteI am the OP. I am not criticizing their decision to send this aircraft to Rome. I am just curious can an airline make a 1000km flight profitable with a big bird. Not just for JU, or this route. People are SO SENSITIVE, a man cant ask a thing anymote.
DeleteAir Serbia A330s are planned and scheduled for long distance flights. Short hauls are either for maintenance/training/testing or one-off type of flights. They are not planned as permanent, regular short haul service, so short flights A330 profitability is not a major issue for Air Serbia. Profitability of Qatar or other airlines using widebodies for short flights is generally not discussed here.
DeleteIf everything is planned in detail, even on shorthaul flights widebodies can make profit; it depends on many many factors….LF, crew familiarization, cargo/AOG parts and many more.
DeleteVery good, now they can send it to LCA. A family member is flying to BEG today. She told me that a Croatian lady next to her said that two of her colleagues had to get business class because economy was sold out. I don't understand why they did't send the A320.
ReplyDeleteNemjee not everything revolves around LCA, relax bud
DeleteWho says I'm not relaxed? I am merely saying that this plane can be used on their routes where the A320/319 is small. And LCA is one of JU's busiest markets.
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DeleteAnd it is still February.
For Easter and of course Summer they could find very useful sending an A330 to destinations such as FCO, CDG, BCN, ATH, IST, LCA, AYT.
A couple of A321's could do great job on places like LCA, BCN even in winter but nothing of it unfortunatelly.
DeleteAbsolutely, an A321 would be a perfect fit in summer. On today's flight there were barely any locals, roughly 90% of the passengers continued their journey via BEG. Roughly half were Cypriots, followed by Russians. I don't understand why they didn't send the A320 today as none of them flew until the afternoon.
DeletePerhaps a good future marketing opportunity with the "You are []" slogan based on it's registration? Just a fun thought. Hopefully we'll see this bird with Mileva painted on it's tail.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion next one should be Milankovic, he absolutely deserves his own plane.
DeleteWould be nice to have a writer as well, maybe Ducic.
Does anyone outside of our region knows these people?
Delete@Anon 09:08 Milankovic is surely well know in the science circles like Pupin and Tesla are... I believe that most renowned writer on the other hand is Andric
DeleteIdemo dalje...
ReplyDeleteKada ARE kteće preko okeana?
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