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Air Serbia has introduced the first of ten new routes this year by launching seasonal flights between Belgrade and Santorini on Thursday. The service, which will be maintained twice per week with the 118-seat Embraer E195 aircraft, will be maintained until September 27. It marks the first scheduled service between the two since September 2022 when Wizz Air concluded three months of operations on the route. Commenting on the route, Air Serbia’s Head of Network Planning and Scheduling, Bojan Arandjelović, said, “By introducing nonstop flights to Santorini, we are not only further enriching our network but directly responding to the strong desire of our passengers to explore the most beautiful Greek islands. Santorini possesses strong international recognition. With a total of eight destinations in Greece - Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodes, Corfu, Chania, Heraklion, Mykonos, and now Santorini - Air Serbia confirms its role as a leader in connecting the region with the most beautiful coasts of the Mediterranean”. He added, “We continue to explore opportunities to expand our route network and remain firmly committed to growing our presence in Greece, which is a highly important market for our passengers—not only those from Serbia, but also travellers across the entire Air Serbia network”. Passengers on the inaugural flight received magnets, postcards and a commemorative certificate.







Bravo Air Serbia 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteBravo and good luck JU!!🇷🇸✈️☘️
ReplyDeleteLF to Santorini was 100% and around 15% on the way back which is logical.
ReplyDeleteWizz's A321 was too big for this market.
That's why for example Air Baltic starts those routes by flying RIX-LJU-LPA, one way.
DeleteMaybe JU flying BEG-JTR-TIV-BEG would make more financial sense, but operationally doing it for one flight is probably a bit too much....makes sense on longer routes
^ what makes you think they would get fifth freedom rights to operate such a route?
DeleteEven if they don't they can operate JTR-TIV as repositioning flight and get higher net yield from full E195 from TIV compared to 15% from JTR
DeleteWell I assume 15% LF cut down the losses to a manageable level so they could fly back home without a triangle routing. It's just the first flight that will be a problem.
DeleteAbsolutely, my example was the best case scenario, where Air Baltic repositions RIX plane to seasonal base in LPA, and instead of flying LPA-LJU-LPA on the first flight they do RIX-LJU-LPA because route is very one sided, same goes for the last flight, they fly LPA-LJU-RIX in April
DeleteWell done Air Serbia and good luck! 🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteExcellent summer route!
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