Lufthansa group member airlines plan to expand their operations to Belgrade this summer in an attempt to strengthen their position on the Serbian market and respond to growing demand. Austrian Airlines will introduce an additional three weekly flights from its hub in Vienna to Nikola Tesla Airport for a total of 23 weekly services. As a result, the airline will maintain up to four daily flights between the two cities on selected days. The carrier competes directly against Air Serbia on the route, which plans to run double daily flights between Belgrade and Vienna this coming summer, as has been the case for the past few years. “During the last decades, Austrian Airlines has been a reliable partner for business and leisure travellers and has continually increased its service between Belgrade and the Austrian hub in Vienna. We will serve up to four flights a day or 23 flights per week between Belgrade and Vienna this summer. Therefore, Austrian Airlines offers the ideal connection between Serbia and the dense Austrian network. Instead of responding to the strong competition, which is strong in every market, we rather focus on our USPs (Unique Selling Proposition): One is our hub in Vienna. We offer flights from Vienna onwards to around 130 destinations worldwide”, the company told EX-YU Aviation News.
Swiss International Air Lines plans to add an extra three weekly departures from Zurich to Belgrade. Whereas the airline maintained between eighteen and 21 weekly services between the two cities for the majority of last summer, it now plans to run 21 weekly flights for the entire summer season. “Our growth is based on our market analysis that identified a great demand for Serbia. The market is very interesting for Swiss, as there is a big community from Serbia living in Switzerland. Therefore, there is a high demand for flights”, the airline said. Swiss faces stiff competition on its flights to Belgrade from Air Serbia, which has also been growing its services to Zurich over the past year. It will run up to eighteen weekly rotations between the two cities during the summer of 2020.
Lufthansa’s low cost offshoot Eurowings will resume flights between Stuttgart and Belgrade this year. The airline will maintain three weekly services between the two cities starting May 21 with a mix of Eurowings, Germanwings and leased ČSA Czech Airlines Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. It will compete directly against Air Serbia on the route, which will maintain six weekly rotations to Stuttgart over the summer. The Lufthansa subsidiary will return to the Serbian market following a year-long hiatus. Previously, it only served the two cities during the peak summer months of July and August, however, flights have now been scheduled until the end of the season in late October, with tickets for its 2020/2021 winter network yet to be put on sale.
Source:www.exyuaviation.com
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