December 12 (SeeNews) - Montenegrin airport operator Aerodromi Crne Gore is in talks with air cariers for the operation of the Podgorica-Stockholm line after the suspension of the service by Ryanair next March, local public broadcaster RTCG reported.
"We will follow the development of the situation with Ryanair on this line, but in the meantime, we will do everything to ensure the resumption of the service to Stockholm through cooperation with another air carrier," RTCG quoted the managing director of Aerodromi Crne Gore, Danilo Orlandic, as saying on Wednesday.
Aerodromi Crne Gore considers the cooperation with Ryanair to be of large importance, as the company handled 172,135 passengers in the country in the first eleven months of 2019, up 25% on the year, Orlandic noted.
"It is particularly pleasing that the occupancy rate on the routes to Montenegro is extremely high, which enables the constant improvement of our traditionally good cooperation," Orlandic added.
Earlier this week, Ryanair said it plans to suspend its year-round flights linking Stockholm to Bosnia's Banja Luka, Serbia's Nis and Montenegro's Podgorica in March, due to the closure of its bases in Nuremberg and Stockholm in the summer of 2020, as the company will receive just 10 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft instead of previously planned 20.