347

Air Serbia » Er Srbija | 61 A WIDE-BODY A330-200 AIRCRAFT FROM AIR Serbia’s long-haul fleet will be deployed for flights along this route. Belgrade-Tianjin flights will operate on Fridays and have an average flight time of 10 hours, with the return flights operating on Sundays and lasting an average of 12 hours. An official departure ceremony for the first flight was attended by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Goran Vesić, Tourism and Youth Minister Husein Memić, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Serbia H.E. Chen Bo, as well as media representatives. “We’ve opened a new chapter in our operations by enabling our passengers to fly directly to China, and we believe it will make their travels to this faraway destination much easier. For some time, Belgrade has already provided good connectivity of the broader Balkan region to numerous worldwide destinations. And it’s now also possible to fly from Belgrade to China. Our airline is one of the few in Europe to offer direct flights to this Asian country. We are now flying to Tianjin, and in future we hope that we will be flying to other important Chinese cities as well,” said Air Serbia CEO Jiří Marek. By establishing its direct route to China, Air Serbia has provided its passengers with good connections, via Belgrade, to destinations such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Prague, Venice, Valencia, Zagreb and other destinations in its growing network. Flights are available for purchase via the Air Serbia mobile application and website. At 2.10pm on 9th December, Air Serbia’s inaugural JU702 flight to Tianjin departed from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, thus re-establishing the national airline’s direct flights to China after a break of 22 years AIR SERBIA’S INAUGURAL FLIGHT TO TIANJIN WE ’ R E F LY I NG TO CH I NA „Sada letimo u Tjenđin, a u budućnosti, nadamo se, i do drugih važnih kineskih gradova“, rekao je Jirži Marek, generalni direktor Er Srbije We are now flying to Tianjin, and in future we hope that we will be flying to other important Chinese cities as well,” said Air Serbia CEO Jiří Marek

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MzExMjc5