Norwegian Air Shuttle will discontinue a number of routes to the former Yugoslavia this summer but will also introduce several new seasonal services to the region. The budget carrier will launch new flights from Gothenburg to Sarajevo, Stockholm to Pristina and from Helsinki to Tivat, however, all three will operate on a low-frequency basis of… READ MORE
Europe’s busiest airline, Ryanair, will add new services to Podgorica and Zadar next year, as the carrier continues to expand its operations throughout the former Yugoslavia. The budget airline will introduce its sixth destination to Podgorica, with flights from Bologna to launch on April 1. Services will run twice per week, each Monday and Friday,… READ MORE
Montenegro Airlines has recorded its busiest year since its foundation 24 years ago by handling 611.938 passengers on board its aircraft over the elapsed eleven month period and is on course to surpass its target set for 2018. The figure is some 19.000 travellers above the carrier’s previous record performance. It achieved the result by… READ MORE
Montenegro Airlines’ CEO Živko Banjević has said the company is “still here, stronger and more stable” as the government mulls its future involvement in the carrier. During the January – October period, the airline handled 576.000 passengers with six aircraft on 6.704 flights. As a result, it added an extra 68.751 travellers, representing an increase… READ MORE
The governments of Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are finalising plans for the introduction of flights between Sarajevo and Skopje via Podgorica. According to a draft agreement between the states, all airlines, including those outside the three countries, will be invited to operate the service, which would be subsidised. “Talks concerning the establishment of… READ MORE
Airports across the former Yugoslavia handled a record 25 million passengers in 2017. For the first time, nine airports managed to welcome over one million travellers with Tivat and Podgorica joining the list. Split was the fastest growing among the larger airports, with an annual increase of 23.1%, while Podgorica saw the biggest growth among… READ MORE
Lufthansa’s fast-growing low cost subsidiary Eurowings, which has capitalised on the collapse of its former rival Air Berlin, is expected to unveil several new routes to the former Yugoslavia in the near future. It comes after the airline announced plans yesterday to grow its fleet by thirty Airbus A320-family aircraft by the summer of 2018,… READ MORE
Tour operator TUI and its affiliated airlines will launch seven new routes from the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands to Montenegro next summer. Apart from the previously announced new seasonal summer flights from Birmingham, Manchester and London Gatwick to Podgorica, which will be operated by TUIfly starting mid-May 2018, the leisure company has now announced the… READ MORE
The Lufthansa Group is considering expanding its presence in Montenegro following talks with the country’s airport operator in Podgorica yesterday. Manuel Meier, head of Ground Operations for Europe, CIS and Maghreb at the Lufthansa Group, held talks with the General Manager of Airports of Montenegro, Danilo Orlandić, where the two discussed potential growth opportunities and… READ MORE