Air Serbia is contemplating increasing its operations additional eastward as its just lately launched service to Tbilisi continues to point out promising efficiency. The service, which inaugurated flights to the Georgian capital final month, is monitoring the route’s growth and has signalled that its success might function a springboard for future community enlargement into the Caucasus and Central Asia. Chatting with “Bloomberg Adria”, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, stated, “To date, we’re very glad with preliminary bookings and knowledge. If this constructive development continues, it’s solely pure that we’ll take a look at Yerevan, Baku, and extra in direction of Central Asia as nicely”.
Discussions over potential flights between Belgrade and Baku have been ongoing for over a decade. In late June, Serbia’s Minister for Development, Transport and Infrastructure, Aleksandra Sofronijević, held talks with Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Serbia Kamil Khasiyev, with the 2 sides additionally discussing “cooperation between the 2 nations within the subject of air transport”. Alternatively, Armenian carriers are at the moment on the European Union’s blacklist, which means they’re banned from working in European Union airspace as a consequence of security considerations. The ban, which has been in place since June 2020, was up to date final month to incorporate all airways licensed within the nation.
Air Serbia just lately stated it plans on introducing 5 to 6 new locations every year over the approaching interval. In Central Asia, which was final linked to Belgrade with a scheduled air service over twenty years in the past, Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airways has introduced plans to introduce flights between Astana and Belgrade by the tip of the yr. Primarily based on oblique visitors circulate, Almaty has essentially the most point-to-point visitors in Central Asia with Belgrade, nevertheless, any route within the area can be extremely depending on switch visitors. Locations in Central Asia, whereas geographically distant, could possibly be well-positioned for growth because of Serbia’s simplified journey preparations with a number of nations within the area, in addition to growing commerce
