Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport handled an unusually high concentration of widebody traffic on Saturday, September 19, with nine different twin-aisle aircraft generating fifteen movements during the day. These included all four of Air Serbia’s Airbus A330-200s, Hainan Airlines’ Boeing 787-9 and four Boeing 767 freighters.

The widebody operations included Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 767-300F from Belgrade to Kinshasa, Air Serbia’s Airbus A330-200 from Guangzhou to Belgrade, which then operated a rotation to Shanghai, CAMEX Airlines’ Boeing 767-300F from Almaty to Belgrade and onward to Hong Kong, Georgian Airlines’ Boeing 767-300F operating between Tbilisi and Belgrade, Hainan Airlines’ Boeing 787-9 on its Beijing - Belgrade service; an Air Serbia A330-200 arriving from New York and subsequently departing for Toronto, another Air Serbia A330-200 arriving from New York due to an earlier diversion, My Freighter’s Boeing 767-300F operating from Tashkent via Belgrade to Ostrava and another Air Serbia A330-200 departing for New York. The aircraft that operated the additional New York arrival subsequently departed for Chicago in the early hours of Sunday, September 20, following a lengthy delay.

The notable number of freighter operations comes amid strong cargo growth at Belgrade Airport. During the January - July period, the airport handled 11,192.02 tonnes of freight, representing an increase of 36.4% on the same period last year.