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Air Serbia is marking seventy years of operations to Italy this month. Passengers travelling on its Italian routes have recently been presented with commemorative certificates and magnets to celebrate the milestone. JAT Yugoslav Airlines launched scheduled services between Belgrade and Rome on June 15, 1956, with flights to Milan introduced shortly thereafter. Today, its successor, Air Serbia, serves ten destinations in Italy: Alghero, Bari, Bologna, Catania, Florence, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Rome Fiumicino and Venice. During the 2026 summer season, the airline operates 43 weekly flights between Belgrade and Italy, offering just over 5.000 seats per week in each direction. Air Serbia is also preparing to mark its centenary next year, with a number of initiatives planned to commemorate the historic anniversary.
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Air Serbia is marking seventy years of operations to Italy this month. Passengers travelling on its Italian routes have recently been presented with commemorative certificates and magnets to celebrate the milestone. JAT Yugoslav Airlines launched scheduled services between Belgrade and Rome on June 15, 1956, with flights to Milan introduced shortly thereafter. Today, its successor, Air Serbia, serves ten destinations in Italy: Alghero, Bari, Bologna, Catania, Florence, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Rome Fiumicino and Venice. During the 2026 summer season, the airline operates 43 weekly flights between Belgrade and Italy, offering just over 5.000 seats per week in each direction. Air Serbia is also preparing to mark its centenary next year, with a number of initiatives planned to commemorate the historic anniversary.
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A minor complaint but that graphics looks like they are flying to Iran and not italy :D
ReplyDeleteWell if you said Hungary it would make more sense, but Iranian flag is more complex, whichever version you prefer. Tricolore is tricolore, get over minor complaints.
Deleteto be fair to the OP color sequence is in order for Iranian flag, withouth a crest
Deletehonestly thought it was Hungary :)
Delete@11:45 You mean a lion?
DeleteGlad to see that Air Serbia finally accepted that history exists and started marking anniversary flights
ReplyDeleteVery few people outside the aviation world care however. But yeah its nice
DeleteFirst comment: We have read here about Skopje, Zurich... anniversary flights . Not sure wry talking about
DeleteThat wasn't Air Serbia. But yeah, luckily we got those vintage articles
DeleteThose articles were the work of this phenomenal site that keeps a lot of that history alive through vintage pics and those sort of articles. I agree it's nice to see Air Serbia finally embrace the past. They used to run away from it like the plague.
DeleteAir Serbia consistently acknowledged that past in corporate communications if anyone cared to pay attention. For example, their Elevate magazine covered complete airline history in detailed article published years ago.
DeleteIf you told me 5 years ago places like Alghero would be served from BEG I would not believe it.
ReplyDeleteyeah, to be fair there are now more routes to destinations in EEU. A good development for the worst of the 3 airports on the island
DeleteAnd what about Baku, Tbilisi, Tromso, Nizniy Novgorod, Kazan, Porto, Astana?
DeleteThese have long seemed natural destinations for an expanded JU
DeleteAt that time all these destinations were exotic.
DeleteThat cake looks delicious
ReplyDeleteLooking at the logo's I really love the JAT "flame" logo (they are actually wings). I know it was during a difficult time for the company but I find it as a very fitting evolution from the egg. Modern but with style and it looked great on planes. That logo/livery would still be contemporary in my opinion.
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Idemo dalje...
ReplyDeleteTrieste, Genoa, Turin next, please
ReplyDeleteThey tried trieste. Turin maybe the most likely but this is more of a ryanair route
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