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本帖最后由 scsb 于 2024-6-7 16:22 编辑
Air Serbia Maps Out China Ambitions, Adds Widebody Capacity
DUBAI—Air Serbia plans to launch two new routes to China before the end of the year in line with the expansion of its widebody fleet.
The airline has three long-haul services at present—flying from its Belgrade hub to Tianjin in northeastern China and New York John F. Kennedy and Chicago O’Hare in the U.S.—but intends to add routes to Guangzhou and Shanghai over the coming months.
Traffic rights are already in place for the two new destinations and CEO Jiří Marek said slot confirmations are expected shortly. “We believe we will be able to open sales in June and one destination will start in October and one destination will start in December,” he told Aviation Week Network from the sidelines of the IATA Annual General Meeting in Dubai. “Depending on the slot clarification, we are still deciding which will go first, but both Shanghai and Guangzhou will definitely start this year.”
The planned launch comes as Air Serbia is set to take two more Airbus A330s, thereby doubling its widebody fleet. Marek said a lease agreement has already been signed and the aircraft are undergoing maintenance.
He explained that China and Serbia have a visa-free agreement, which is helping to drive leisure demand, and added that there is also a strong labor flow thanks to Chinese investment into Serbian infrastructure projects. A new free trade agreement will also be introduced at the beginning of July.
塞尔维亚航空在新购的2架A330飞机到位后,即将在年内开通广州和上海航线。航权已经拿到,正在协调起降时刻,定于在10月/12月分别开通两地航线
原来以为大概率南航开,或者海航,没想到是塞尔维亚航空开。广州的洲际外航即将+1
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