Although Air Serbia currently offers discounts, they do not help those who are already planning a vacation this summer. That's why we reveal to you how you can find cheaper tickets yourself - with a little patience, apps and a few tricks
Serbia could be left without a certified Aviation Academy, due to the announced strike of school employees
Several of Serbia's deals with the Emirates were declared "deals of the century" and were harmful to Serbia, while the real earnings - in the trade in arms and military equipment - were mostly kept silent.
The national airline Air Serbia will establish a direct Belgrade-Tokyo flight in the next six months, President Vučić announced. In addition, there will be two new lines to China and France
Serbia paid Etihad Airways 2,04 billion dinars, which is about 17,4 million euros, for the purchase of 16,42 percent of the airline's shares, making the state the sole owner of Air Serbia.
At the "Nikola Tesla" Airport, there was an interruption of the passenger check-in software again. "Air Serbia" company asks passengers to arrive at the airport at least three hours before the scheduled take-off due to crowding at the counters.
The plane to Tunisia was supposed to take off at 10:10 from Constantine the Great Airport in Nis. However, one passenger persistently refused to fasten his seat belt
Global technological problems with software have affected the operation of certain airports, so today certain deviations from the planned flight schedule of Air Serbia are expected. Traffic is particularly difficult at certain airports in Spain, Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich
The probable cause of the accident of the Embraer plane of the company "Marathon Airlines" on the Air Serbia flight JU324 to Dusseldorf on February 18, in which there were 106 passengers, is an inadequate assessment of the take-off parameters during the pre-flight preparation of the flight crew.
"We were most struck by the fact that Air Serbia announced that at no time was the safety of us passengers threatened. It's a scandalous shame," Božidar Stanojević, who is gathering fellow travelers to file a lawsuit and seek justice, tells Vreme.
The case of the "Air Serbia" plane with passengers, which landed safely at "Nikola Tesla" airport on Sunday evening with a damaged fuselage and without wings, is being treated by the Traffic Accident Research Center as a "serious accident" for now. The center states that they are still investigating the circumstances of this incident, which almost ended tragically
The mystery is why the pilot on the Air Serbia flight to Dusseldorf tried to take off on a short section of the runway, and then actually took off from a meadow and hooked the antenna. Aviation expert Petar Vojinović describes it as "an inexplicable bizarreness that happens even to trained people" for "Vreme".
As Tango Six learns, the plane with Air Serbia passengers took off from a runway from which take-off is normally prohibited. The crew, most likely, had calculations for the runway from which they were originally supposed to take off
The President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), Dragan Đilas, said that during nine of the 10 years, while Etihad was a partner of Air Serbia, a loss of 175 million euros was made. Through additional subsidies and recapitalization, Serbia provided 350 million euros, while Etihad earned tens of millions of euros annually.
It would have been better for Serbia if we had never given Etihad an ownership stake and the right to manage Air Serbia," the Vice President of SSP believes.
Minister of Finance Siniša Mali said that the state of Serbia will complete all the necessary paperwork today and take over the remaining share in Air Serbia from Etihad Airways.
US carriers United Airlines, Delta Airlines and American Airlines have suspended flights, while European carriers including Lufthansa, AirFrance, Finnair and Wizz Air have also been grounded.
In the first six months, the national airline made a profit of 22,4 million euros, so in accordance with domestic laws, it will pay the money into the budget of the Serbian state during this year.
The flight to London, which included four unaccompanied children, was diverted to Prague. Air Serbia told the "Vremena" portal that they have no official information about that flight
This summer you can fly to Vienna for 1.700 dinars, to Corfu for 1.750 dinars, to Malmo for 2.119 dinars, to Malta for 3.100 dinars. For tourists who like individual arrangements, Niš Airport "Konstantin the Great" offers a large selection of very affordable flights to various European destinations.
Last year, the largest European airports also had enough time to find employees before the summer season for the physical maintenance of aircraft and other similar jobs, but they did not succeed. This caused unprecedented queues, mountains of luggage and passenger frustration. In short, the same thing we saw two weeks ago in Belgrade
The cause of the problem that led to chaos at the Belgrade airport in the peak of the summer season was the unplanned sudden increase in passengers, which began even after the corona virus pandemic. The Air Serbia company wanted to answer all passenger inquiries, but it failed to organize and optimize its flights, and on the other hand, the Belgrade-based airline met the summer season completely unprepared, with a noticeable lack of manpower.
The development of Air Serbia traffic from the Belgrade airport according to the planned flight schedule is still extremely difficult, and we do not mean only the delays and cancellations due to the failure of the X-ray baggage control device at the end of last week. That was just one incident, and the problem of the functioning of airport services is much bigger than that and is of a chronic nature, Air Serbia warns.
The company's website lists the rights of passengers in case of denial of boarding, cancellation or long delay of flights
Civil aviation expert Alen Šćuric said that the airline's explanations about the postponement or cancellation of flights due to unforeseen factors are completely unacceptable, as well as that Air Serbia had to know how things work in that sphere of traffic.
"To say that the planes carrying passengers, which were leased, did not arrive is also unbelievable. Well, those companies that were supposed to deliver planes to Air Serbia had to report on time, and they reported because they do it for the sake of their own reputation," says the former JAT director Predrag Vujović
The company says that due to several factors, they will have to "reorganize traffic", while passengers are reporting through social networks that all flights are being canceled and that they are not receiving any notifications about this from the operator.
