Instead of using the country’s main airport, Belgrade Nikola Tesla, low-cost companies will be landing at smaller Serbian airports, an official has announced.
“Nikola Tesla is the primary airport and it not usual nywhere in the world for low cost companies to use main airports. Their place is not there, but in secondary airports,” said Assistant Minister for Air Transport at the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zoran Ilic.
As stated in the announcement of the ministry, carried by Beta agency, Ilic also added that the company Airports of Serbia (Aerodromi Srbije) has been established in order to put into operation smaller airports around the country.
According to him, the airport in Nis, southern Serbia, falls into this category.
Ilic also said that the plan is to soon put into operation – along with Airports of Serbia as the operator – the airport Morava near Kraljevo, “which will gain special importance once the Corridor 11 section near Preljine has been completed, because it is in immediate vicinity.”
“The plan is also to divert low-cost air traffic to these airports,” the official added.
Ilic said the main task of the newly formed company will be management, development, and maintenance of airports that will in the future be included in the network of the enterprise.
Serbia currently has 22 registered airports, said Ilic, among them several that have artificial surface, “which have not been used much.”
Among are Airport Sjenica on Mt. Pester, and the ones in Sombor and Kovin. “Combining civilian and military airports, the first task will be to activate and launch the future civilian-military airport near Kraljevo,” he added.
The company Airports of Serbia will start working in the first half of February, the government has decided.
Izvor; B92
