Royal Jordanian Airlines has officially scheduled the introduction of flights between Amman and Belgrade, with services to commence on April 1, 2026. The route will be maintained twice per week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the 122-seat Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, featuring twelve seats in business class, and the remaining 110 in economy. It will mark the resumption of scheduled services between the two capitals and the airline’s return to Belgrade after 35 years. Tickets are now available for purchase through the airline’s website, with further details available here. The flight times enable good connectivity via Amman to Belgrade from Jeddah, Sulaymaniyah, Medina, Riyadh, Bahrain, Beirut, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Baghdad, Cairo, Kuwait City, Doha, Mumbai and Aqaba. However, connectivity from Belgrade via Amman is more limited and mainly confined to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Cairo.
Turkish Airlines is the top transfer carrier between Belgrade and Amman, handling over 40% of the market. It is followed by Aegean Airlines and TAROM. In the summer of 2020, Air Serbia was to introduce four weekly flights to Amman, which were primarily aimed at transfer passengers to and from Western Europe, similar to its Beirut service, which has since been terminated. The flights never materialised due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, while plans to commence the route in 2022 were subsequently shelved as well.
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| Belgrade Airport's Middle East network as of April 2026 |
Belgrade’s Middle East connectivity remains limited. The busiest unserved route from the city to the region based on monthly indirect traffic flow is Abu Dhabi, following its termination by Wizz Air Abu Dhabi in July. During the first half of the year, the airline handled 46.071 passengers between the two cities. The Emirati capital is proceeded by Kuwait City, which was briefly served from Belgrade by Jazeera Airways in 2023, then Beirut, Muscat, Amman, Baghdad, Bahrain, Erbil, Riyadh and Dammam. Prior to the pandemic, the Serbian capital boasted services to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Beirut, Tel Aviv and Tehran, which have now been limited to Dubai, Doha and Tel Aviv. Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines handle close to 50% of Belgrade’s Middle East transfers, followed by Qatar Airways. Aegean Airlines also fares well with 6% of the transfer market.
Excellent news. Happy to see them in BEG.
ReplyDeleteHope it will work for more than one season.
ReplyDeleteIf they don't make a codeshare with JU, I'm not so sure.
DeleteWhy? How many airlines survive in BEG thanks to the JU codeshare? Most are there because they do the selling themselves.
DeleteRJ will be fine without the codeshare.
Bravo BEG 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteDo the flight times offer connections onto JU flights?
ReplyDeleteBEG-AMM sector yes, while AMM-BEG not so well.
DeleteLooks like they are mostly aiming for P2P since there are not so many connections from Amman in one of the directions either.
DeleteThey should have made it connect onto JU, do a codeshare and make it connect onto most of its network in AMM if they want this to work long term. Otherwise, I'm not so confident in its viability.
DeleteWhy not if the market is there? I think they are going to be more than fine.
DeleteSo this is fourth new route confirmed from BEG in 2026: Grenoble, Riga, Toronto and now Amman. Not bad actually. And JU said they will announce new routes end of November and early December.
ReplyDeleteVery good so far.
DeleteWould like to see some more Wizz routes next year.
Delete@anon 09:15
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Canary Islands please!
Still more opportunities in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteA lot more!
DeleteJU should look seriously in to launching ME routes now that the Israeli Palestinian situation is stabilizing.
DeleteThat’s long overdue. Cairo, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Abu Dhabi for a start
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DeleteCairo and Tel Aviv are only feasible and with E195 for beginning.
DeleteWhen Air Serbia flew to Cairo loads were amazing with A319
DeleteYields were the problem.
DeleteAre the fares any good?
ReplyDeleteYou can check on their site
DeleteUnable to at the moment, so that's why I asked if anyone else has checked.
DeleteFor 1.4 - 8.4 AMM-BEG-AMM 365 EUR
DeleteRates and timing for us in Abu Dhabi are good, currently the cheapest option. Better than Turkish.
DeleteRyanair just launched Sofia - Amman with one-way fares from 21euros return. Flying to Sofia and then on with Ryanair might work out cheaper than 365 :P
DeleteAnyway its a nice route from a nice airline! Hopefully the prices point-to-point become competitive as its a moderately popular tourist destination from Serbia.
^ yes it's very convenient. It involves sitting in Sofia for 10 hours on the outbound and 5 hours on the inbound.
DeleteI'm not suggesting people would do it like that...Just saying its a far better price and if one lives within a couple of hours of Sofia Airport a far better option.
Delete3 hours in an Embraer does not sound too appealing.
ReplyDeleteMuch more appealing than having to transfer via another airport.
DeleteE195-E2 is a very nice aircraft. Good to see more of them in Belgrade. Hope Air Serbia gets it one day.
DeleteNot as comfortable as the A220 but very nice aircraft nevertheless.
DeleteActually, it’s not. It’s more comfortable than A220
DeleteActually the A220 is the more comfortable aircraft of the two.
DeleteEmbraer doesn't have middle seat, A220 has. Middle seat is what makes the flight most uncomfortable, if you seat on one. Everything else is similar or same. And once again I don't understand fascination with A220. It is not Intergalactic Spaceship as presented by some posters here. It's an average short and medium range aircraft. If we forget about engine and corrosion problems.
DeletePIR we all understand that anything that has been touched by OU you instantly dislike it.
DeleteIn reality the spaciousness of the A220, the seat width and the quietness of the cabin make it more comfortable aircraft to spend hours in it that an E-jet.
Avoiding the middle seat is easy, just select another.
The E195-E2 is super comfortable to fly so nobody should "worry" about spending three hours on that. Better 3hours direct than changing aircraft in IST and passing through the security scrum..
Delete10.51 and 12.23
DeleteAre you feeling ok?
Can you read?
Yes, normally I criticize OU because it is much smaller and much worse than it could and should be, and yes, I am firmly opposing idea of single type fleet for OU, be it A220 or any other type. But today's topic has nothing to do with OU and I never mentioned OU in my post. I was discussing general diferrence between A220 and Embraer, based on personal experience, as I had chance to fly both, on several airlines.And your need to spit on anything I say, even if I didn't mention your precious treasure OU, is anything but normal. I just hope ex-yu will not erase this post after you continue with your insults and nonsenses, which is usually the case.
12:35 I think the problem with your approach of critique is by saying "its much smaller and much worse than it should be" comes across as rather like saying "a person should be richer and better looking than they are," it just descends rapidly into silliness and bitterness rather rapidly.
DeleteI agree with you however that the E195-E2 is a really nice ride.
Amman might make a good destination for Ryanair from Zagreb in my opinion.
Again turned an article about Royal Jordanian in Belgrade about OU. Truly fascinating.
Delete@10:02 Of course it's not! A220 have 2+3 row seats and can not be more comfortable than 2+2 configuration. I understand that OU uses it, but that doesn't mean that it's the best and most comfortable in the world. Actually, the opposite
Delete@13:19
DeleteIt is a talent of his!
No matter the subject everything is about how terrible OU and Croatia are.
I think if there was a time machine that could transfer him the the way our region was 40 years ago he would be the happiest person of all.
@Anonymous 13:42
DeleteA tourist bus also has 2+2 seat configuration, doesn't make it more comfortable than a A320.
I understand that OU uses it, but that doesn't mean that it's the worst and least comfortable in the world.
Just think that even JU chose to lease it despite having E jets already so quit the hate.
Even tourist bus is more comfortable than A220, And actually, it's not Airbus at all, it's Bombardier stuck between regional and short/mid range plane
DeleteLove this! Will definitely try this route out. I'm also wondering if their fares are any good to Dubai for example. Other than flydubai, QR offers pretty competitive fares from BEG to DXB
ReplyDeleteFinally another oneworld airline
ReplyDeleteHope this route actually gets advertised, unlike Jazeera Airways and many others.
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DeleteSCAT has has a campaign on Instagram advertising the new Astana-Belgrade route. It's good actually. Constantly popping up on my feed.
DeleteI also think the airport should do more to advertise new routes. They have social media pages. They have not used to it once to announce a single new route in the last year. Is it not in their interest that these routes to survive? Putting out a press release would also help so at least the media covers it in Serbia. But they seem disinterested.
Delete^ This exactly!
DeleteMore pax = more work for the same salary. Not everyone is interesting in this..
DeleteYes, this way they enjoy no work.
DeleteAnother flag carrier is a solid win. Hope this route sticks.
ReplyDeleteConnectivity via Amman isn’t great from Belgrade. Unless RJ improves connections, this will be hard to sustain.
ReplyDeleteHope this leads to Royal Jordanian joining interline or codeshare with Air Serbia. That would help both.
ReplyDeleteRJ livery will look great at BEG!
ReplyDeleteWe need Abu Dhabi and Kuwait restored.
ReplyDeleteI hope Belgrade–Cairo returns next. That’s long overdue.
DeleteVucko in July 2024 had said that the return of BEG_CAI was imminent.
Delete:)
DeleteBelgrade really needs more connectivity to Asia and the Middle East. This is one step in that direction.
ReplyDeleteGetting China Southern in BEG was a major win.
DeleteGood decision by RJ. I recommend visiting Petra and Wadi Rum
ReplyDeletePrices are royal, too :D
ReplyDeleteFares for connecting flights are very good.
DeleteMiddle East network needs a lot of improvement if we take for example ATH Middle East network..
ReplyDeleteI don't think the two can be compared. Huge Middle East diaspora in Athens, long tradition of flying between Middle East and ATH and Greece is one of the most visited countries in the world.
DeleteAthens be getting flights to Benghazi and Tripoli while new flights to Baghdad will start in 2026. Alongside EBL, RUH, JED, DXB, AUH, SHJ, TUN, RAK, HBE, LXR, SSH, CAI, TLV, AMM, HFA and Damascus. How ATH can be compared to BEG?
DeleteIt can't. A more apt comparison is OTP, SOF, TIA and the capitals of the region.
DeleteTIA can't really be compared to BEG in regards to Middle East traffic. Historically the connections were never there, with TIA only the past couple of years starting to see ME traffic. BEG should be looking between OTP and ATH for comparison.
DeleteJU returning what it had prior to Covid would be a nice start (BEY, CAI, TLV). Not going ahead with AMM again is a failure on JU's end. JU lost quite a few years of progress pulling out of the Middle East.
Yes, JU had lost so much... They were only busy launching 40 new routes in Europe in the last 4 years.
DeleteMost of which are max 2-3 times a week.
DeleteBut a M.E. network of TLV, CAI, AMM, BEY, AUH and or DXB would offer a lot of connecting traffic that would hopefully allow the airline to increase frequencies to these 40 destinations.
Yes, it offers low yielding passengers which then take up seats that would have been paid at a much higher fare while costs for maintaining routes to the Middle East are much higher.
DeleteSo many other airlines seem to be able to make money doing exactly that!
DeleteNot to mention the feed JU's transatlantic network would get.
What is so special about JU that would prevent them from capitalizing on all those passengers compared with every other European and Turkish airlines going after this exact traffic?
I really don't want to get into a discussion with a person comparing Air Serbia with Tutkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Take a break and enjoy for 24 hours that another new airline is entering the Serbian market.
DeleteActually, LH has a lot of problems with crisis in Germany especially without managers' flight.
Delete@Anonymous 12:24
DeleteI'd rather see JU launching this and other destinations in the Middle East.
And apart from LH and TK there are dozens of European carriers that are taking advantage of the middle eastern market demand.
So what makes us so different than anybody else in Europe?
Economy?
Delete@11,50
DeleteNobody is denying that JU launched 40 new routes the past couple of years but you also can't deny that JU has pulled out of a number of routes it has served for decades. Instead of building on what already was in their network, JU will at some point have to restart the market all over again. Imagine if this conversation was about JU launching routes such as DAM, EBL, JED or KWI instead of when JU will restart CAI, BEY and TLV.
@12,11
If transit pax was soo bad for yields nobody would go after them. JU have themselves spoken praise on the doubling of transit pax so obviously transit pax doesn't necessarily mean low yield.
Launching JED. For who? Do you hear yourself?
Delete@14:24
DeleteIs our economy really the worst one among 40+ European countries, I don't think so.
If RO makes money in the Middle East then JU can too. There are no excuses.
DeleteRO is a loss making near bankrupt carrier. They are not making money anywhere. Some you need a realoty check.
Delete@16:46. Its towards the bottom end of that list, which makes the modest success of JU something quite out of the ordinary and positive.
Delete@16,43
DeleteWhat's wrong with JED? 50 million pax an insignificant market to serve? Saudis don't travel? No Serbs in Saudi? No business or trade between Serbia and Saudi?
^ yes, because it is such a perspective route, the many full service and low cost Saudi airlines are jumping at the opportunity to launch flights all these years. But good thing you are demanding for Air Serbia to launch it. I presume you will be the first passenger on the inaugiral flight. Don't forget if you are a Serbian citizen, the Saudi evisa will cost you a mere 250 euros.
DeleteNowhere was the word demand used.
DeleteHave they kept the same flight number they used 35 years ago to BEG? :D
ReplyDeleteNo, it is not the same.
DeleteThanks admin
DeleteHonestly I was expecting them to launch Sarajevo, not Belgrade.
ReplyDeleteLol, ok
DeleteSurprised to see TAROM get some transfer traffic from BEG :D
ReplyDeleteI flew with Royal Jordanian more than several times to Bangkok and viceversa..Had excellant onboard experience, and when choosing flights for Thailnd was even first trying to find Royal Jordanian options..I was very satisfied with them..
ReplyDeleteI'm looking up prices, and for some reason they don't offer business class. Any ideas why that could be?
ReplyDeleteThey show up in GDS. They just don't seem to have published the fares yet.
DeleteGood luck RJ!
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