Air Serbia to Be Operator on Ten Lines of Public Interest in Next Four Years – Flights to Turkey, Montenegro, Slovenia, Germany, Greece and Belgrade from Airports in Nis and Kraljevo

Air Serbia will be the operator on the air lines of public interest, that is, on 10 destinations, according to the results of the completed tender, which has also been confirmed today by the competent minister, Goran Vesic. The public procurement procedure was opened in October by the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure and, within it, the most favorable bidder for the operation of air transport on the lines pronounced to be lines of public interest, that is, lines which would be connections with the airports in Nis and Kraljevo, was sought.

The destinations which Air Serbia will operate and which were the subject of the procurement procedure are Nis-Frankfurt-Hahn, Nis-Cologne, Nis-Ljubljana, Nis-Istanbul, Kraljevo-Istanbul and Nis-Belgrade (throughout the year), as well as Nis-Athens, Kraljevo-Thessaloniki, Nis-Tivat and Kraljevo-Tivat (from June through September).

The framework agreement with the selected bidder, Air Serbia, will be signed for a period of four years, and individual agreements will be signed within it. Vesic clarified for TV Prva that the operator was obligated to start the flights from January 1.

The lines of public interest in air transport were determined by the decision of the Government of Serbia of October 12, 2023. This public procurement procedure, when it was opened, was estimated at RSD 4,000,000,000 for the entire period of the validity of the framework agreement.

Vlada Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

Air Serbia ad Beograd

Government of Serbia

Ministry of Construction Transport and Infrastructure

Air Serbia

Istanbul

Ljubljana

Frankfurt

Hahn

Cologne

Athens

Thessaloniki

Goran Vesić

air lines

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