The 2025/26 winter season begins tomorrow and runs till March 28, with the area’s two largest flag carriers set to supply the very best variety of scheduled winter flights and capability of their historical past.
Air Serbia has positioned 2.048.030 seats on sale for the upcoming five-month winter interval, a rise of 5.9% in comparison with final yr. It marks the primary time the airline will surpass two million seats on scheduled providers through the winter season. This development comes regardless of the alternative of wet-leased Airbus A320s from GetJet Airways, used final winter, with smaller A220 plane from airBaltic. Nevertheless, offsetting this discount, Air Serbia has doubled the dimensions of its wet-leased Embraer E190 fleet from two to 4 plane. The airline plans 18.338 scheduled flights over the winter, up 9.5% year-on-year. Moscow, Paris, Podgorica and Zurich will supply probably the most capability and flights throughout the community through the season.
Croatia Airways will develop its winter capability because it advances its transition to an all-Airbus A220 fleet. The provider plans to supply 1.173.768 seats over the 2025/26 winter season, up 20.7% on the earlier yr. It can additionally mark the primary time in seventeen years, for the reason that 2008/09 winter, that the airline exceeds a million seats through the season. A complete of 9.658 flights are scheduled, a rise of 6%. The sturdy capability development is being pushed by the continuing fleet renewal. Croatia Airways presently operates seven A220s, with additional deliveries to comply with. The airline will retire its final remaining A320 in February subsequent yr and proceed phasing out its Sprint 8 Q400 turboprops as a part of its fleet transition technique. This winter, Croatia Airways will supply probably the most worldwide capability and flights on providers to Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels and Skopje.
