Air Serbia has scheduled the launch of night-time flights to Sarajevo Airport, which will be the latter’s first after announcing it would become operational 24 hours per day. The Serbian carrier will add a further three weekly rotations between Belgrade and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital from June 12 for a total of ten weekly services. The night flights will depart Belgrade on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 00.45, arriving in Sarajevo at 01.35. The return service will take off at 04.30, arriving in the Serbian capital at 05.20. Tickets for the new additions are now available for purchase through the airline’s website.
The additional flights will enable Air Serbia to offer convenient connections for Sarajevo passengers to almost its entire network of destinations. Customers arriving from Air Serbia’s evening wave of European flights will be able to transfer onto the Sarajevo service departing after midnight, while those arriving in Belgrade in the morning will have the opportunity to connect onto the carrier’s largest daily departure wave. The additional Sarajevo frequencies also make it possible for travellers to connect onto Air Serbia’s transatlantic network with short connecting times to and from New York and Chicago. The increase in frequencies will mark the largest volume of scheduled weekly flights between Belgrade and Sarajevo since 2013, when both Air Serbia and the now-defunct B&H Airlines maintained flights on the route for a short period.
Air Serbia is also expanding its ATR fleet. Next week, the carrier will wet-lease an ATR72-600 from Danish Air Transport on a longer-term basis. The turboprop is expected to arrive in Belgrade tomorrow and has already been scheduled on several regional routes including Budapest and Prague. It joins Air Serbia’s regional fleet of five dry-leased ATR72-600s and one wet-leased Air Connect aircraft of the same type. Furthermore, the airline is to take delivery of another dry-leased ATR72-600 in the coming weeks, during June, while an additional ATR is expected to arrive in August, Ex Yu Aviation news portal reports.
