BELGRADE (Serbia), May 11 (SeeNews) – Air Serbia will resume on June 1 scheduled passenger flights suspended since March 20 due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country, the flag carrier said.
The final flight schedule will depend on the decisions and guidelines of national, foreign, and international civil aviation authorities and on the lifting of the flight bans, evolution of travel restrictions and health measures in the countries served by the company, Air Serbia said in a statement on Friday.
"We will endeavor to operate as many scheduled flights as possible. Our team is carefully following the ongoing decisions of competent authorities and, in addition to relaunching flight operations, we will ensure our customers are kept up to date on their bookings and the appropriate safety measures that will be in place," said Duncan Naysmith, Air Serbia CEO.
The flight schedule will remain strong for operations to Podgorica, Zurich, Vienna, Paris, Tirana, Zagreb, Skopje, Bucharest, London, Sarajevo, Sofia, Frankfurt, Brussels, Kiev, Krasnodar, Zadar, and Nice.
The number of weekly flights to Tivat, Ljubljana, Athens, Thessaloniki, Amsterdam, Prague, Moscow, Berlin, Rome, Istanbul, Milan, Dusseldorf, Dubrovnik, Split, Larnaca, Copenhagen, Stuttgart, New York, Banjaluka, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Venice, Pula, Barcelona, St. Petersburg and Madrid, will be optimised, the company added.
For the time being, Air Serbia will not operate flights to Helsinki, Lviv, Amman, Florence, Chisinau, Rostov on Don, Malta, Geneva, Cairo, Beirut and Rijeka.
Air Serbia will launch limited operations to London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Zurich and Vienna on May 18, it said last week.