easyJet will temporarily suspend operations between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Belgrade, which will include the peak of the ongoing summer season. The low cost carrier plans to operate its final flight on the route on July 26, with services set to resume at the start of the 2026/27 winter season on October 26. Flights will then be suspended again throughout January 2027 before resuming in February. The move follows a previous pause in operations on the route earlier this year, from January 9 until February 6. easyJet currently maintains two weekly flights between the two capitals, competing directly against Air Serbia, which runs two daily services.
easyJet introduced flights between the two cities on October 27, complementing its existing Geneva service. Air Serbia quickly responded by lowering fares to match those offered by easyJet and announcing plans to increase frequencies on the route to sixteen weekly flights during the winter season. However, the Serbian carrier eventually shelved most of the planned increase, except during the New Year and Christmas holiday period. It will now operate without direct competition on the route for much of the summer season, with Wizz Air maintaining service to Beauvais, which is over a hundred kilometres from central Paris.
Paris is one of Belgrade Airport’s busiest routes, although foreign carriers have struggled to gain a foothold in the market over the past decade. In 2019, Air France resumed flights between the two cities after a ten-year hiatus. However, its return proved short-lived, with the airline maintaining only seasonal operations before discontinuing the service altogether following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. That same year, ASL Airlines France also launched flights between Paris and Belgrade but similarly withdrew after the summer season. In 2025, Transavia France planned to introduce operations to the Serbian capital from Orly Airport but shelved the route after issues emerged involving Belgrade Airport’s then fuel supplier, which had been sanctioned by US authorities.
Air France and Air Serbia currently maintain an extensive codeshare partnership. This summer, Air France has placed its flight number and designator code on Air Serbia-operated services from Belgrade to Paris, as well as to Larnaca, Nice, Ohrid, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Skopje, Sofia, Podgorica, Tirana and Tivat. In return, Air Serbia codeshares on Air France-operated flights from Paris to Dublin, Lyon, Marseille and Nantes.
No demand
ReplyDeleteYou are an idiot
Delete"Paris is one of Belgrade Airport’s busiest routes"
@9:13
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Yes they have demand during the quieter months of the year but not in August. The things you read here.
DeleteMatter of yield and fuel hedging
DeleteAt 21 weekly flights when Wizz is included, demand seems to be the real 'problem'... I can guarantee the original poster did not read past the headline nor knows who else flies this route.
DeleteOG is Ragebait poster. Dont feed the 🧌
DeleteWhy do you all get rage baited so easily? Can't you just ignore stupid comments?
DeleteI think he or she is not an idiot. I think it's simple answer to all those who write the same comment when ZAG has similar announcement, and who don't want to accept that service can be cut because of multiple reasons, or know and deliberately claim opposite. Of course that there is demand between Belgrade and Paris, the same as for example between Zagreb and Lisbon, or Thessaloniki (yesterday). This was just an attempt of criticism on double standards, and use of an aviation portal for other goals and intentions.
DeleteAnother touchdown by JU! EasyJet and other companies should avoid routes already served by Air Serbia and try something new. And pray that JU will not step in
ReplyDeleteThey really could have stayed an unserved or undeserved route.
DeleteDumping on fares is JU's favourite strategy in transfer segment, just it's questionable how profitable is that
Delete@09:14 SMFH...
Delete@9.31
Delete1. Multi million euro profits year over year.
2. The fact that you think they compete with easyjet with transfer passengers shows how little you know about aviation.
Connecting fares are cheaper than direct despite costing the airline more.
Delete^ Again, you do not know much about aviation.
DeleteThey need the plane somewhere else during peak season where they can make more money.
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteOf course. A full holiday flight to the med will always make more than a route such as this
DeleteIt’s more about their weaknesses than their potential. But drink your embittered chalice if it makes you feel better.
DeleteStill there for most of the year so it's OK.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Its not much of an event or issue. As one person always helpful observes..idemo dalje hahah
DeleteThey won’t come back, don’t be naive
DeleteOf course they will. Tickets are already on sale until next summer, which they were not 2 weeks ago. They have also made pauses on this route in the past. Don't be bitter.
Delete'Air France and Air Serbia currently maintain an extensive codeshare partnership.'
ReplyDeleteIt's such a great deal that AF doesn't even sell point to point flights on JU. BEG-CDG is sold via AMS.
You can find point to point flights on all booking engines, including those marketed by AF. You can find various flights to other destinations on the AF website operated by JU.
DeleteYou did not get the point of the comment. Air France no longer sells point to point flights on Air Serbia, only transfers. They terminated this deal some 2 years ago. If you want to fly on AF code then you have to fly BEG-AMS-CDG.
DeleteIt means AF corporate clients are not flying on JU, same with KL and AMS.
This was a big loss for JU.
I have stopped taking the direct flight for this exact reason. Hence my hope that AF will be back on the route someday.
DeleteOn an article about easyjet reducing Belgrade flights, the Air Serbia-Air France codeshare is of course the biggest concern. Take a break.
DeleteThe AF-JU codeshare has had such a detrimental impact on JU that they now have less competition on the route.
DeleteYes, because these two are DEFINITELY related
DeleteThey are not? But from @9.53 comment I would assume they are. He is posting about it on an article about easyjet cutting flights to BEG.
DeleteDid easyjet officially canceled the route from Skopje to Orly as well?
ReplyDeleteno. Flights are operating normally.
DeleteNo availability after october
DeleteSorry but with just 2x weekly flights they are highly uncompetitive on this route.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Even Wizz Air operates Beauvais-Belgrade daily.
DeleteeasyJet again s**t the bed in Belgrade, in other news - every 60 seconds a minute passes.
ReplyDeleteWhy not do CDG-INI. Even seasonal. I'm sure easy would have success on this route.
ReplyDeleteYields would be lower than on the BEG route.
DeleteAbsolutely. Lots of the diaspora in France are from southern Serbia. An Embraer would do the job.
DeleteTwo weekly?
ReplyDeleteUseless.
They should at least fly from Orly instead.
Classic EasyJet story in Belgrade. There is really market for them here but they don’t do anything about it. I as aviation enthusiast forgot that this route even exists. EasyJet just needs more serious approach in Belgrade, more frequencies and marketing and they would do good in BEG
ReplyDeleteWhy they don't fly from Orly?
ReplyDeleteTransavia could easily fill up the plane to both Belgrade daily and 2 or 3 times weekly to Niš.
DeleteAnd yet the same Transavia cancelled its flights.
DeleteOn Friday 8 May I took a Wizzair flight from Beauvais to BEG. The flight was fully booked. Every other time I take Air Serbia there are 3-4 seats empty. There is certainly demand for Paris-Belgrade. Transavia from Orly has cancelled its flights. Now Easyjet. There would certainly be demand for one more daily flight to BEG plus 3xweekly to Niš. For the life of me I don’t understand why doesn’t Air France fly to BEG as they used to for literally decades.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good question. Especially after VANCI took charge, I hoped we would have at least AF, but it looks out like other airlines don't get so good offers from the airport to fly
DeleteIt's a relatively low yielding market with a strong home carrier that takes most of the passengers.
DeleteIt's not all about yields, AF could attract many transfers via CDG and reroute them from dominant LHG that offers three daily flights from four hubs.
DeleteIt's mind-blowing to me that airline of that size can't make BEG work or just doesn't want to.