Air Serbia has acquired operational permits to begin flights between Belgrade and Beijing, nonetheless, the airline is presently in no rush to launch companies to the Chinese language capital because it appears to extend frequencies to Shanghai and Guangzhou. The provider’s CEO, Jiri Marek, advised “Bloomberg Adria”, “In the intervening time we’re wanting on the densification of current frequencies on the one hand, as a result of we now have two weekly flights to every metropolis. Nevertheless, in Guangzhou, there are additionally two weekly flights operated by China Southern Airways and we’re speaking to them about cooperation”. He added, “The logical subsequent step is including a 3rd weekly flight. Additionally, we not too long ago acquired operational permits for Beijing, and within the close to future we would think about including it as a further vacation spot, nonetheless, it’s already lined twice per week by Hainan Airways, so it isn’t an imminent step”.
Air Serbia beforehand operated flights to Tianjin, situated roughly 135 kilometres southeast of Beijing and linked to the capital through high-speed rail. The service was launched in 2022 amid strict pandemic-related restrictions in China, which restricted entry for overseas carriers to main cities. The route was discontinued in November of final yr, with the airline citing a shift in demand towards its new companies to Guangzhou, launched in September 2024, and Shanghai, launched this January.
Hainan Airways presently operates two weekly rotations between Beijing Capital Airport and Belgrade. Beijing can also be house to Daxing Airport, which opened in late 2019. Final yr, Hainan Airways dealt with 49.345 passengers on its flights between the 2 capital cities with a median cabin load issue of 80.6% in the course of the yr. Nearly all flights have been maintained with the Airbus A330-300 jet, with the capability to seat both 281 or 292 passengers attributable to two completely different enterprise class configurations on the plane kind. The airline additionally deployed its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on seven rotations with the capability to seat 287 passengers.
