JAT to Recommence Flights to Dubrovnik
Belgrade | 21 May 2009 |
Dubrovnik
Serbia’s national air carrier, JAT Airways, will resume flying between
Belgrade and Dubrovnik in Croatia from the middle of June, after an 18 year hiatus.
The flights from Serbia’s capital to the popular Adriatic summer destination on Croatia’s southernmost coast will run twice a week, on Thursday afternoons and Monday mornings, until the end of September this year, according to a JAT Airways press release, Balkan Traveler reports.
This is not the first flights that JAT has operated between Serbia and Croatia. Last year, the airline started flying between Belgrade and the city of Pula on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast.
This is not the first flights that JAT has operated between Serbia and Croatia. Last year, the airline started flying between Belgrade and the city of Pula on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast.
At a recent meeting, the representatives of both JAT and Dubrovnik airport agreed that they “should enhance regional cooperation”.
Sasa Vlaisavljevic, JAT Airways Acting Director General and Vladimir Ognjenovic, JAT Airways Commercial Operations Director met with representatives of Dubrovnik’s tourist board and hotel managers, to put in place the commercial framework for the deal.
Dubrovnik-Belgrade flights ceased on August 6, 1991, the year when war erupted, following Croatia’s declaration of its independence from Yugoslavia.
In March, Croatia turned to its former foe, Serbia, with appeals for tourists to return, concerned that the world financial crisis will seriously reduce tourism.
Serbs, who vacationed en masse in Croatia, when the country was a part of Yugoslavia, have started to return to its Adriatic resorts. Last year, according to Balkan Traveler, some 90,000 tourists from Serbia went to Croatia, even though there are no direct flights connecting the two countries’ capitals. The new air connection between Belgrade and Dubrovnik will surely strengthen this trend.
2009-06-30 11:36:46