Today at 14:10, Air Serbia's JU702 flight took off from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Tianjin, and after a pause of 22 years, the national airline had thus again commenced direct flights to China. Flights on this route will be operated using wide-body A330-200 aircraft from Air Serbia’s long-haul fleet. Belgrade-Tianjin flights will be operated on Friday, with an average flight duration of 10 hours, while flights from Tianjin to Belgrade would be carried out on Sunday, and will last an average of 12 hours.
The official send-off ceremony was attended by Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić, Minister of Construction, Transportation, and Infrastructure Goran Vesić, Minister of Tourism and Youth Husein Memić, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Serbia Chen Bo, as well as media representatives.
"We 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 distant destination much easier. For some time, Belgrade has already provided good connectivity of the broader Balkan region to numerous destinations in the world. As of today, it’s possible to fly from Belgrade to China, too. Our company is one of the few in Europe which offer direct flights to this Asian country. We are now flying to Tianjin, and in the future, we hope that we will be flying to other important Chinese cities as well", said Jiří Marek, CEO of Air Serbia.
By establishing a direct route to China, Air Serbia 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. Fares are available for purchase via the mobile application and the Air Serbia website.
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