Interesting, Jat had maximum of 32-33 aircraft for the same number of passengers. They had the same number of widebodys but Jat had 3 Atr 42 at the time.

The 727s had 167 seats if i remember making them basically in between the A320 and A319. Never got to fly on one sadly :(

It was 36 aircraft on its peak, and it was not the same number of widebodies - out of 36 aircraft, DC-10's were 5 in the fleet

So at its peak all five DC-10s were operational?
Times were different back then so was the utilization. One DC-10 was occupied with Australia for like 4 to 5 days.

@ anon 16:43
I was lucky to fly once. Boarding by tail stairs. Amazing feeling. I was just a kid back then but remember that flight well. Further more, it was one of those Government's 727 with "trobojka" on the tail.

Nope

There is no prospect of that atm.

What CFM Leap that eats all the fuel savings on a service and PW GTF that is still unreliable?

Short term

Until the end of July.

One of the most beautiful liveries in the world today. Just love it.

Well that is totally subjective so has no meaning. But yeah its nice

Except on their widebodies that is.

JU livery has become one of those classic liveries in my opinion.

It is a painted livery.

As people have noted many times before, buying newer aircraft comes with a direct hit to the bottom line. Literally straight to the bottom line. JU has been conservative in its approach to modernisation and that has paid dividends in terms of the routes it can open and profitable operate and the level of wriggle-room the airline has. So whilst you might declare it interesting that this is not a particularly young aircraft, it is well within operable age and makes solid financial sense.

I think what the person meant was JU going for something 'newer' as in roughly 10 year old leases as they previously did.

Perhaps they don't want to keep them longer than 3-5 years and plan to replace then with used NEOs after that?

Seeing as A320 simulators for both pilots and cabin crew have arrived plus JU going from wet lease A320's to dry leases, I wouldn't be surprised if the A320neo is reordered.

@16:25 yes that is what I meant they've been modernizing with around 10 year old air frames not with 20 year old airframes so that is why I was surprised. I didn't mean getting newer brand new planes like NEOs but if they are getting them this old maybe they do have plans in the future to replace them with the NEOs soon.

Smell of finacial downfall if they jump in with a massive order for new planes

World's largest airline by revenue, earnings (profit) and market cap is Delta Air Lines. Delta's oldest active (flying) jet is Boeing 757 N649DL, 37.2 years old. If it works for passengers of the richest airline in the world, it will surely work for Air Serbia passengers.

True...

Delta changes their cabin regularly, here you have the same seats for 20 years. Don’t compare them please.

That is true. But the cabin will be just fine for the air serbia passenger profile. And it works for their bottom line. Nobody flying JU expects 2026 state of art cabins. Hell, nobody flying any European airline expects that. Its fine.

@20:35 Updated cabin, upholstered/refreshed seats and new carpets can be seen in the last picture of Air Serbia A320. Yeah, that's fresh. And any complaints abut old planes should be directed to Trans Maldivian Airways 60 year old Twin Otter 8Q-TAV operating for Four Seasons. Look it up, it's gorgeous, no one would complain getting to a private island in that!

@20:35

No JU ac has been in the JU fleet for 20 years. APV and APU pictures clearly show refreshed cabins.

Well for example YU-APV came with Avion Express' cabin since the plane flew for them after it left Aegean. So it got their cabin and JU kept it. It's a hybrid mix between Avion Express and Aegean.

YU-APU was only flying with Aegean but once the lease was terminated the owner put this cabin since Aegean's was removed.

It means they are replacing all A319s that have been the core of their jet fleet with either larger A320 fleet or smaller Embraer fleet. That's fleet renewal process. But I have a feeling you already knew that.

Why would he know that? Also shouldn't you know that the A320s are more or less the same age as the A319s that are leaving? YU-APB is leaving next and the plane is 21 years old so just 2 years younger than this plane.

It would be much better if Marek admitted that they couldn't resist the low price they were offered for these planes which is true and which is absolutely ok.

Air Serbia talked about this particular fleet renewal strategy number of times. It was all published here. It also outlined criteria and approach to switching to newer generation engines and aircraft, also published here. Well known info. Just using another great news about Air Serbia to try to paint it in the negative light?

YU-APC diverted back to Belgrade