NEWS FLASH Croatia Airlines will wet-lease additional capacity as three of the carrier’s own aircraft have seen their scheduled maintenance prolonged. In addition to a Trade Air Airbus A320 and an incoming Fly Air41 Airways A319, the national airline will now wet-lease an ETF Airways Boeing 737-800. The jet is due to commence operations on Croatia Airlines’ behalf on the morning of May 10, operating between Zagreb and Copenhagen. In addition to the Danish capital, it will also be deployed on flights to Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Dubrovnik, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich, Skop ..read more

NEWS FLASH Italian carrier Neos will operate several charter flights to Croatia this summer, including to both Zagreb and Split. The airline plans to run one charter flight from Reykjavik in Iceland to Zagreb, on May 9, as well as three charters from Iceland’s capital to Split on May 17, 24 and 27. Furthermore, Neos will run four charters between Tel Aviv and Zagreb on July 10, 17, 24 and 31. All flights will be operated by the airline’s Boeing 737 fleet. EX-YU Aviation News ..read more

Air Serbia is preparing to take delivery of several aircraft in the upcoming days, weeks and months, including ATR72-600s, Embraer E195s, and Airbus A330-200s with the airline noting network expansion will only be announced once the aircraft are physically on the ground in Belgrade. Speaking at the Southeast European Aviation Summit in Belgrade yesterday, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, said, “One thing we learned last year is that we won’t be announcing new destinations and opening sales unless aircraft are physically here in Belgrade for the purpose that we don’t get caught by surprise by m ..read more

NEWS FLASH Airlines and airports across the former Yugoslavia are taking part in the annual Routes Europe development forum taking place in Aarhus in Denmark from today until April 24. Over 320 organisations including airlines, airports and tourism authorities are attending the event to engage in conversations to negotiate the launch of new routes or the expansion of existing services. Attendees at the event thus year include Air Serbia, Airports of Serbia (Niš and Kraljevo), the airports in Belgrade, Dubrovnik, Osijek, Split, Zadar, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Pristina, Skopje, Ohrid, Sarajevo, Tu ..read more

NEWS FLASH Turkish Airlines will deploy its Airbus A330-200 aircraft between Istanbul and Ljubljana this week. The carrier will utilise its 250-seat A330-200 jet, featuring eighteen seats in business class and the remaining 232 in economy, on its morning Ljubljana rotation this Thursday, April 25. The carrier had initially scheduled an A321 aircraft for the service. The one-off upgrade corresponds with the start of the school holidays in Slovenia. Last minute equipment swaps remain possible. Turkish Airlines A330-200 business class Turkish Airlines A330-200 economy class ..read more

Flights between the Gulf and the former Yugoslav markets will reach record levels this summer, exceeding their previous best result set during the summer of 2019. This is despite the Macedonian market losing its connectivity to the region and Emirates’ absence in Zagreb, the latter maintaining flights to the city with its wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft. During the 2024 summer season, there are a total of 952.316 seats between the Gulf and the former Yugoslavia, up 11.8% on the same period in 2019. Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is popular with tourists from the region during the summer months ..read more

The Slovenian-registered carrier AlpAvia plans to commence commercial leisure flights from France this month, which will also cover one city in the former Yugoslavia. The airline will wet-lease a Boeing 737-700 aircraft from Greek carrier Lumiwings (featuring the AlpAvia livery), which previously had the jet based in Tuzla. The Slovenian airline will deploy the B737 on operations from Lille, in northern France, and Deauville, in the northwest of the country, to ten European leisure destinations, one of which will be Podgorica. Services between Lille and the Montenegrin capital are set to be ..read more

TRIP REPORT Written by Ilija Bogadnović Aircraft: A321neo (9H-WBM) Flight: Belgrade to Nice Flight time: 1:45 Flight Date: July 17th July 2023 Before going to the airport, I visit Belgrade one last time, I say goodbye to my family before an average flight to France. It is around 2pm, I arrive at the airport, the new control tower is sublime, the airport becomes larger but I wonder what will become of the old control tower. First remark, check-in took a lot of time, the queue was big and it was staffed by inexperienced young people. Once completed, I go upstairs for security an ..read more

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