Cairo and Beirut should be returned.

Ι don't see them returning to the Middle East any time soon.
All that traffic is being flown through IST and SAW now and JU seems content with it.

They said last year Middle East will return with time. The issue is these are low yielding transfer only routes.

TLV is not low yielding transfer route.

I don't see them expanding to the ME while the political situation in that region is fragile.

What also has changed at JU is that their early morning arrivals are no longer timed to arrive just before 6am rather between 5am and 5:30am. JU could either time them at 1am and have the aircraft back by 8-9am or at 8:30pm to arrive around 5-5:30am but they then are missing either arrivals before or departures afterwards.

Don’t think so.

All three A330 are on the ground this Sunday PM.
Airplane doesn't make money on the ground

Yet Air Serbia is profitable.

How many bright and shiny in OU are on ground, not only Sunday afternoon but most of the time since their arrival? It's February for God's sake, the lowest of lowest season

YU-ATB has been under maintenance since the beginning of December. Why do they need more than 3 months for such a thing considering that the plane recently joined the fleet?

Because if a spare part is missing, you have to wait months for it, especially because of a lack of available Embraer aircraft and spares on the market. Same way one of Air Montenegro's Embraers has been undergoing maintenance for months in Poland.

So there is a high probability that the plane will not be ready by the start of the summer season?

No there is not. But you can always hope.

I guess YU-ATD will take off soon.

@anon 09:51
Hahahah , perfect answer!

What is perfect about that answer? He could have answered the question normally especially since summer starts in a bit more than a month from today. Some people on here...

I think that in one moment we'll hava a dozen of new exotic charters Zanzibar, Phuket or Oman.

Miami is exotic toute. But not for tourists.

BTW we have good numbers of indirect passengers to routes like Bangkok or Seoul with possible dirct flights in near future. In my opinion one day we'll see direct flights to South Korea. There a lot of chinese tourists in Belgrade why not and from Korea or Japan?

I think that Seoul and Tokyo are confirmed by Marek. I see long haul charters to Thailand, to BKK we need two full A330 weekly (not possible).

Not possible? Around 50% of pax in FZ, QR are to Thailand, Maldives, Zanzibar or other exotic destinations.

It's strange that serbian tour operators don't organize charters to new exotic destinations, we all see the boom in outbound travel from Serbia.

All is with Flydubai or Qatar or Tk.

Which are gonna be more comfortable and flexible than a longhaul charter on a JUa330 or some leased 767

For a travel agency committing to a series of charter flights with an A330 it's a huge gamble for a small market like Serbia.
Better for them to use TK, FZ, QR, a lot of options almost no financial risks shall the destination underperform.

Serbia a small market ? You just need to look at the statistics and no need to go any further. Serbs are travelling more then anyone in the neighborhood, and I am not talking bcs they are booking cheap discount low budget airlines, they got money and they go places. Let's stop pretending.

None of those airlines are a good choice for Caribbean charters. LOT is operating charters to Punta Cana. With Cuba out of the picture, that would be a good choice to test the waters for long haul charters. Air Serbia might consider own tourist agency, for example Air Serbia Travel or somerhing similar

That's right. The number of trips of serbs and like the entire countries of Eastern Europe or the Balkans is already such a large amount in western european countries. Facts that the negative balkan person never dares to admit, he remains with the thinking that he is something inferior to the western european. Serbia is small market with with 10 000 000 passengers via its airports, ok....

@13:53 while the market has grown greatly we cant escape the fact that there are cities in Europe larger than Serbia. Its not a huge market like it or not.

Air Serbia is not limited to passengers from Serbia. Many use them for transfers in wide area including exyu and beyond

Indeed. But routes need a degree of rational for the Serbian market too.

If they want to avoid JAT since they seem to be allergic to its legacy unless they have overtaken some record from its time, at least they could do an Aeroput livery.

Jat Airways released a series of special liveries some 15 years ago. They never got painted but they looked great.

Can we see pictures somewhere?

^ https://www.flightglobal.com/pictures-jat-airways-unveils-commemorative-liveries-for-80th-anniversary/74172.article

Nice. Thanks!

Tel Aviv will work and on daily basis or ok 4 weekly from 2026 and daily in 2027 😁

A lot of Israeli tourists in Serbia including Zlatibor.

And of course MUC.

DUB too.

^ Dublin

The Baltics are also a hole in the JU network.

@14:19 for a reason...

What reason?

Point to point demand is very limited making them long thin routes. Its not like JU would bring significant connectivity for those airports even. A passenger from Vilnius heading to the Balkans has LOT with high frequency.

And yet Air Baltic is back at BEG. I presume for a reason

Something. MAD, BCN, PMI, AGP, ALC, TFS...
It's 2012: only Barcelona is on the timetable.

And SVQ!

Ibiza is on the table if they catch slots.

If…

That excuse again?
How come every other airline in Europe can get as many slots in IBZ as it likes but JU can't? 🤷‍♂️

It has been explained many times but you can't get it through your head. They got slots at Ibiza but they can't get the time that suits them for transfer traffic because the airport is chronically understaffed and can't accept more flights. But it's no use. You will ask the same question again.

Do they really look for transfer traffic to Ibiza - seems like a point to point route almost totally to me? But yes the airport is very congested - even at night!

Yes they do. And they have said that on record. Many routes in Spain are transfer heavy. Even Barcelona which has the most P2P traffic.

Girona,Gran Canaria

They fly to Barcelona and you want them to fly to Girona?

Like Sevilla and Malaga

And Alicante -Valencia

@10:56 not sure connections will be key. This is an extreme seasonal leisure route

BWK

I think INI market is mature eniugh for BCN 2pw seassonaly. If not JU, FR or W6 could give it a try.

They could also partner with some foreign travel agency and make charters for ski holidays to Kopaonik?

I agree. Now someone will write that there are enough flights from Belgrade. The problem is that passengers from Niš will not fly from Belgrade, but from Sofia or Skopje.

Based on Nis's passenger numbers and load factors across all routes, including LCCs, it seems very few people fly in general from Nis.

Where are they flying from?

Nowhere. People have to understand it’s a poor country, especially eastern and southern Serbia.

That airport doesn't only serve the people of Niš. So they can still remain "poor" and yet there are those who are interested in flying from Niš.

Yes there are. Over 90% of them are from the diaspora.

Every arrival of the diaspora is a plus for southern Serbia. They leave more money than the average tourist.

10:09

Interesting point of view, but very wrong. SKP and North Macedonia are way poorer, but still it have more than 3 million passengers last year. And no transfers at all

Whilst North Macedonia is poorer than Serbia its per capita flight score is greater refelcting its location. The leading states in ex-yu per capita are:
Croatia 3.64
Montenegro 3.49
Kosovo 2.59
N. Macedonia 1.69
Serbia 1.52
BiH 0.74
Slovenia 0.71

For comparison Albania and Greece have the higest per capita aviation ratio refelcting their tourism. Bulgaria and Romania are relatively low.

So the comment about north Macedonia doing well without transfers is fair.

+100

Air Serbia will expand to five long haul destinations this summer. Record passenger numbers will be recorded on long haul services. New records for Ait Serbia, disaster for you.

^ you must be so tragicly thin skinned that you find justified ciritiques some kind of 'attack' on air serbia. Grow up

@16:31 I see that literacy is a problem in your world I don't hate on air Serbia i am saying that when someone pays 2k for a business class ticket they should expect a 2k dollar seat not a 20year old product. Hope this helped you develop as an individual instead of immediately hating on someone you should grow up

 justified ciritiques? ZamaScholars dont need justification. They are also unable to provide constructive criticism as they don't want JU to get better.

@19:26 if new seats were available in stock right now, with installation available tomorrow, JU would very likely already have them. But they are not, and they don't teach that at your fake academy. Other airline CEOs complain about that, for example Air Baltic CEO recently said it would take 4 years to get new seats if ordered now. But again, this is not something you would know

19:26

Stop spreading lies. All business class seats are functional perfectly, as well as 98% of economies. And they have been fixed daily, depending on harshness of passengers. Since planes are not completely full, passengers are almost never affected by broken seats. Maybe in the peak of the summer, sometimes. So, nobody believes your every day "criticism", you are just trying impossible. And keep trying, it's very funny reading you daily

@19:33 what is zama? You really must be very strange to not like people giving criticism to a company. Not you, not your country, but a business. So really take a look at strange reactions to very valid points. Everyone wants JU to get better. But probably you are not worldly enouch to understand that.

@19:58 you seem to think this is one person? Which it is not

Reading some of the comments on here for years, I think that's what many people think.

+1 ^ I'm surprised Cluj guy hasnt commented yet.

And Lagos guy 🙂

Via Addis if I remember

How can they give a discount on taxes when they are not the ones setting the rates?

Which 5 routes would you consider out of KVO?
For most of the routes refuelling in KVO would be needed in order not to impair the payload by carrying fuel, that is a key element for KVO to be attractive.

Things are being done, but you are unable to read beyond headlines 🤡

Sure he is bragging, JU's breaking pax records month on month

Berlin. They sent the A330 2 weeks ago because of high cargo load.