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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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Air Serbia was founded in 2013
ReplyDeleteNo it wasn't. Jat Airways was renamed Air Serbia on 1 January 2014. It is not a new company. Just name change. You can see it in business registry papers. Now move on.
DeleteIt's just a name change. Like JAT Yugoslav Airlines changed its name to Jat Airways in 2003. It wasn't a new company.
Delete@10:51 well by that logic Serbia was founded in 2006, which is of course nonsense. Air Serbia is the legal successor to JAT and Aeroput as people have stated many many times.
DeleteI remember the days of the early 2000s when Belgrade and Italy were quite poorly connected. I used to take Alitalia from Malpensa on their ERJ145s. A totally different aviation landscape.
Lovely to see Air Serbia connecting so many corners of Italy. Many of these are natural Ryanair routes if they ever entered the market so seeing JU build a strong Italian network is very good indeed. Grazie.
Please ignore Palermo guy. His intention is to minimise every good news about JU or BEG with ignorant comments.
Delete@10:51 This was clarified and rectified dozens of times on this same website with plethora of supporting evidence. Another repetitive, provocative post with the intention of creating further arguments.
DeleteA 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...
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