Air Serbia will temporarily suspend six routes from its Belgrade network during the first quarter of 2024 and reduce frequencies on a number of destinations during the three-month period compared to its original plan. From mid-January, the airline will suspend flights from Belgrade to Naples, Izmir, Salzburg, Cologne, Gothenburg and Ankara. Five out of the six destinations were introduced this year. The last flight to Naples prior to the hiatus is scheduled for January 5, after which services will resume on April 1. No other carrier serves the route. Air Serbia will also suspend operations to Izmir following its January 5 flight, with the route to be restored on April 3. Turkish Airlines’ subsidiary AJet will continue to operate between Izmir and Belgrade twice per week.

The final service to Salzburg will run on January 12, with flights resuming on March 31. Air Serbia also suspended the route during the 2022/23 winter season, however, it had planned to run it throughout the ongoing 2023/24 winter. Also on January 12, the airline will operate its last flight to Cologne, before it returns on April 2. Its Ankara operation will be suspended following the January 13 rotation, returning to the company’s schedule from April 1. AJet, which inaugurated flights on the route just over two weeks ago, will continue serving the two cities with a four weekly service. Finally, operations to Gothenburg will end on January 14, with flights resuming on March 31. The route will continue to be served by Wizz Air three times per week.

Air Serbia is also reducing frequencies on a number of routes during the first quarter of the year, most of which come into effect after the holiday travel period from mid-January. The carrier has removed 31 weekly flights in each direction in January, 38 weekly in February, and 44 weekly in March. Despite the reduced operations, the airline will still offer a significantly higher volume of flights and capacity than during the same period this year, as well as on the pre-pandemic 2019. In January the airline will perform 95 weekly flights more (in each direction) than it did in 2023 and offer an extra 12.183 weekly seats (in each direction). In both February and March, it will operate 85 weekly flights more than it did in 2023 and offer just over 11.500 additional weekly seats.

The changes to its network, in addition to six abovementioned routes which have been suspended, can be found below. Changes remain possible.

All other routes remain unaffected. At this point, Air Serbia plans to restore operations to Tel Aviv on January 1, which have been suspended since late October due to the ongoing conflict.

All other routes remain unaffected.