Flydubai has revised its schedule through October 1, affecting all markets it serves in the former Yugoslavia, with the exception of its seasonal operations to Tivat.
The carrier now plans to maintain twice-daily flights between Dubai and Belgrade, equivalent to fourteen weekly services, down from the seventeen weekly frequencies planned prior to the conflict in the Middle East. However, the revised schedule remains in line with the airline's operations during the same period last year. Flights are currently scheduled to return to seventeen weekly frequencies from October 1. However, this is likely to be revised, as the airline has yet to finalise its schedule beyond that date.
In Zagreb, Flydubai will operate three weekly rotations through September, down from both the initially planned and last year’s daily service. Flights will run on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Operations are expected to return to a daily schedule from October onwards.
In Ljubljana, the airline will maintain just two weekly flights, down from the five initially planned and below the four weekly services operated during the same period last year. Flights will run on Wednesdays and Sundays, with frequencies set to increase to five per week from October.
Sarajevo will see a more modest reduction, with services decreasing from the planned fourteen weekly flights to twelve in July. However, frequencies will align with the original schedule for the remainder of the summer season, including fourteen weekly flights in August, matching last year's operations, and four weekly services in September.
The airline has cancelled its seasonal flights to Dubrovnik throughout June. Last year, services resumed on June 5 and were meant to do so this year as well. However, operations are now scheduled to restart on July 2 with three weekly rotations, matching last year's frequencies, and will run until September 13.
The only destination in the region unaffected by the reductions is Tivat, where services will continue to operate four times per week until September 5.
And there is no any sign that this conflict will finish soon, which means jet fuel will rise up again and will never go down , ticket prices go high , more cancellation , delays etc are guaranteed.....nothing will be same again. After Covid19 it just go worse....
ReplyDeleteHuh? Both sides signed a temporary peace deal and are in Switzerland for further negotiations. The war is over. Now we have to see what the new reality will be. One thing is certain, Iran is the new king over there.
Deleteanonymous09:08 War is over?!? Do you read news?
DeleteThe war is largely over but traffic to the Middle East will take quite some time to recover to prewar levels.
Delete@Anonymous 09:04, I love comments like this, it will never be the same. What won't be the same? That's how it was written even during the corona virus, so in just 3 years, the same number of passengers and even an increase.
DeletePax numbers will increase in a year or so, and if you ask why answer is money. Now it is all on a third side not to make billions in damage to airlines, farmers and companies around the world and get back to war.
DeleteAlso in the news:" Iran’s military command said Saturday it is closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to state media, testing a fragile ceasefire agreement intended to lead to a broader peace with the United States."
DeleteIn short, forget about peace in the Middle East.
Could be just temporary, general population never really knows these issues. Could also be a peace, but I'm personally skeptical
DeleteI read and follow news very nice , the war is not over, Israel is attacking Lebanon and with that it brakes the signed deal with USA. Yesterday Iran close Hormutz pass again, that makes fuel export harder again
DeleteIt’s all games for them. Now it’s open now it’s closed and we’re foolish enough to take it seriously.
DeleteYes but in the end of the day, we suffer with all those changes , increasing prices , the inflation grows more and more
DeleteIf you guys would actually check the price of jet fuel, you could see it's slowly but surely falling down to the price before war. Over half of the price increase was already reversed and unless something very bad happens in the ME again, the prices will probably continue to fall. This crysis looks like is coming to an end and it was a softer one than the one at the beginning of the Ukrainian war.
DeleteTotally crazy how they fly more often to Tivat than Zagreb. And twice as many times to Tivat compared to Ljubljana.
ReplyDeleteBegs the question how much are they getting as incentives or similar in MNE?
Seems obvious they got some contract that states minimum 4 weekly ops otherwise they won't get paid, hence only there no reduction at all.
The flights are for locals in the UAE top go to Porto Montenegro which is owned by the Sheikh. They sell holiday packages
DeletePretty sure also Russians fly between Russia and Montenegro via Dubai.
DeleteIf the flights were for the UAE top, they would surely not fly Flydubai in economy
DeleteIt seems only some Europeans think that people from countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia fly only first class. Nevermind that Saudi Arabia has 3 low cost airlines. Nevermind that the UAE has the largest LCC in the Middle East.
DeleteFlydubai is a full service airline with flat bads in business class and quite expensive fares.
Those LCCs you mention mostly target the large number of migrants who live in the GCC countries
Delete^As someone who has lived in the Gulf for 7 years, you are mistaken.
DeleteAnd there is a lot of balkan migrants in UAE which explains why so many flights to BEG and SJJ compared ro LJU and ZAG
DeleteThe high number of Sarajevo flights in summer has nothing to do with migrants but with tourists from the UAE (who yes, fly with flydubai). If it were for 'migrants' they wouldn't have 2 flights per week in winter.
Delete^ every explanation possible must be found why they have so few flights to LJU and ZAG. Of course market size will never be mentioned. It's always migrants, political route or Chinese workers.
DeleteYou do realise that all those explanations are all about market size?
DeleteEmirates must fly to Madrid 3 times per day because of Spanish migrants in the UAE, unlike to Zagreb where they fly 3 weekly because there are no Croatian migrants in the UAE.
Delete09.27
DeleteOnce you explain us how the smallest EK 777 can land at and take off from Tivat, we can continue discussion about premium and not premium or UAE top passengers to Porto Montenegro
Pretty good frequency for BEG considering the situation.
ReplyDeleteI still find it crazy how SJJ frequnecies go from 14 to 4
ReplyDeleteSome years ago they used to fly 4 daily!
DeleteThat surprised me too especially that starts right away in September
DeleteThese cuts were inevitable given the current situation in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteHopefully demand recovers by autumn.
ReplyDeleteLjubljana seems to have been hit hardest. Two weekly flights are hardly enough for convenient connections beyond Dubai.
ReplyDeleteIt's P2P only for Ljubljana now. Agencies decided to rebook anyone via Istanbul instead of Dubai. Should stabilize from the autumn vacation onwards
DeleteDespite the reductions, former Yugoslavia still retains a solid Flydubai presence compared to many other European markets.
ReplyDelete^ Becaue of the absence of Emirates.
DeleteBut when you look at the frequencies they offer to Zagreb you wonder why they chose just them as destination for Emirates some years ago.
Because Minister of tourism was friends with the Sheikh. The route lasted year round for one year then reduced to seasonal, then reduced in frequencies and then disappeared after Covid and remains the only route not reinstated by EK.
DeleteProbably they got a deal in which empty seats were paid for by the city of Zagreb or some other entity.
DeleteThe moment these subsidy expired they pulled the plug.