Air Serbia’s third Embraer E195 plane (pictured) is getting ready for supply, with the jet just lately painted within the provider’s company livery in San Jose in Costa Rica. As beforehand reported by EX-YU Aviation Information, each the incoming third and fourth E195 jets are models previously operated by Brazil’s Azul Air, much like its final two ATR72-600s delivered final yr. The ten-year-old jet, previously registered as PR-AUJ with Azul, was delivered new to the Brazilian airline earlier than being transferred to leasing firm Azzora, the place it has been re-registered as N688DR. As soon as in Serbia, the plane is predicted to enter service below the registration YU-ATA.
Chatting with EX-YU Aviation Information earlier this summer time, Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, mentioned, the 2 E195s are due for supply in “November or December. Timeline remains to be topic to vary. As you understand, even with commitments from lessors, there are dependencies on MRO slots, and delays are fairly widespread. That mentioned, we’ve structured our winter schedule in order that we’re not reliant on these plane throughout that interval. Each time they do arrive, they’ll be greater than welcome additions to the fleet”. This coming winter, Air Serbia can also be on account of take supply of three Airbus A320s. On the identical time, three A319s are to be retired. The primary of these is predicted to function its remaining flight for the airline subsequent week, marking the start of Air Serbia’s technique to steadily part out the A319 fleet.
Air Serbia is aiming to deploy extra Embraer plane on thinner routes this winter in an effort to cut back seasonality. The provider has scheduled the deployment of its Embraer fleet on the Belgrade – Tbilisi service this winter, changing the A319 used in the course of the summer time months. In keeping with its present schedule, the airline will deploy the E195s occasionally to locations equivalent to Lisbon and Valencia subsequent February, which is taken into account the slowest month within the aviation trade. Aside from the E195s, Air Serbia will even keep operations with 4 wet-leased E190 jets from Bulgaria Air this winter.
