On 1 March 2010 Adria Airways, the Airline of Slovenia, will reintroduce a scheduled service to Belgrade. Adria will fly several times a week between Ljubljana and Belgrade, using two 48-seat Canadair Regional Jet CRJ200 aircraft and an 86-seat Canadair Regional Jet CRJ900.
Adria began operating a regular Ljubljana–Belgrade service in 1968 and the service continued to operate until the early 1990s.
‘We at Adria expect the service to develop successfully, because the abolition of visas will lead to an increase in activities in the economic sphere in Serbia,’ said Adria’s sales and marketing director Tomaž Kostanjšek. ‘With the new service we also hope to meet the needs of friends, relatives and tourists from both countries.’
Adria will offer passengers from Serbia the benefit of its traditionally good connections via Ljubljana to major European cities including Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich and, in conjunction with Star Alliance members, over 1,000 destinations around the world.
The Adria Airways fleet currently consists of 12 aircraft: an Airbus A320, four Canadair Regional Jet CRJ900, six Canadair Regional Jet CRJ200 and one Canadair Regional Jet CRJ100. Two 135-seat Airbus A319 aircraft are due to join the fleet in spring 2010.