Air Serbia dealt with simply over 20.000 passengers on its Belgrade – Shanghai service in the course of the first six months of operations. “Flights between the Serbian capital and China’s enterprise hub have maintained a excessive load issue, with rising curiosity that has additional intensified in the course of the summer time season”, the airline stated. Though it didn’t disclose the precise determine, with 27.800 seats obtainable on the route over the six-month interval, the common load issue is estimated at simply over 72%. Since launching the service on January 11, Air Serbia has maintained two weekly flights between Belgrade and Shanghai, along with its two weekly operations to Guangzhou.
Commenting on the service’s efficiency, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, stated, “The graduation of scheduled flights between Belgrade and Shanghai marked an necessary step in our initiative geared toward enhancing Serbia’s world connectivity. The variety of passengers who’ve used this route over the previous six months clearly confirms its justification and strategic significance. In doing so, now we have facilitated journey between the 2 international locations and contributed to strengthening financial and cultural trade between Serbia and the Folks’s Republic of China. We’re assured that the significance of this route will proceed to develop within the years to come back, in keeping with traits in cooperation between Europe and Asia”.
Air Serbia is considered one of solely eight European carriers presently working flights between Europe and China. The airline not too long ago secured permits to launch providers to Beijing however has indicated that its instant precedence is to extend frequencies on present routes to China. Previous to the route’s introduction, Shanghai was Belgrade Airport’s busiest unserved long-haul vacation spot, whereas the Serbian capital ranked amongst Shanghai’s busiest unserved European cities. Between January and Could, Serbia welcomed 66.645 guests from China, marking a 41.9% year-on-year enhance, or a further 19.668 arrivals.
