Bosnia’s Serb Republic to subsidize Banja Luka-Belgrade flights to connect to Europe - media

The governments of the Serb Republic and Serbia have held a joint meeting to discuss the launch of flights on the Banja Luka-Belgrade route five days a week as a connection to Vienna, London, Paris, Moscow and other European destinations, news agency Srna (www.srna.rs) quoted the Serb Republic premier Aleksandar Djombic as saying earlier this week.

Flights on the Banja Luka-Belgrade route are expected to start at the end of 2012 and continue through 2013 for which the Serb Republic will allocate 1.0 million marka ($655,500/511,290 euro), Djombic said.

The Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation are the two autonomus entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(1 euro=1.95583 Bosnian marka)