Air Serbia to start night-time flights from June 12

The first night-time flights to Sarajevo Airport will be the first since Air Serbia announced it would be available 24 hours a day. The Serbian carrier is planning to add a further three weekly rotations between Belgrade and Bosnia and Herzegovina s capital on June 12 for a total of ten weekly services. The evening flights depart Belgrade on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 00.45, arriving at Sarajevo at 01.35. The return service will depart at 04.30 and arrive in the Serbian capital at 05.20. The additional flights will allow Air Serbia to provide convenient connections for Sarajevo passengers to almost its entire network of destinations. After midnight, passengers arriving from Air Serbia's evening flights of European flights will be able to transfer onto the Sarajevo service departing Sarajevo, while those arriving in Belgrade in the morning will have the opportunity to connect onto the carrier's largest daily departure wave. The addition of additional Sarajevo frequencies also enables travelers to connect onto Air Serbia's transatlantic network with short connecting times to and from New York and Chicago. The increase in frequency will mark the largest volume of 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. The carrier will wet-lease an ATR 72 - 600 from Danish Air Transport on a longer-term basis next week. The turboprop is due 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 ATR 72 - 600 s and one wet-leased Air Connect aircraft of the same type. In addition, the airline is to take delivery of a dry-leased ATR 72 - 600 in June, while an additional ATR is expected to arrive in August, Ex Yu Aviation news portal reports.