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First Air Serbia commercial flight after state of emergency

Belgrade, 21 May 2020

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic visited today the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport on the occasion of a first commercial flight of Air Serbia after the abolition of state of emergency.

Mihajlovic made the visit together with Francois Berisot, General Manager of the airport and Duncan Naysmith, General Director of Air Serbia. She pointed out that today is an important day because after two months, we are sending off the first commercial flight which will return full from Zurich.

Air Serbia is the first in the region to have started with commercial flights. In addition to Zurich, we will have flights to Frankfurt, London, Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, New York and other cities, the Deputy Prime Minister said, adding that it is important that life is slowly going back to normal.

Mihajlovic confirmed that as of 22 May there will be no obligatory PCR test or self-isolation for people entering Serbia. As for trips abroad, Serbian citizens will have to respect measures of a country they travel to.

She underlined that air transport suffered great losses everywhere in the world and that until now the damage is over 70 million euros. She expressed her hope that Serbia will finish this year with less than 200 million euros of damage in this industry.

Berisot underlined that this day was awaited for two months and expressed gratitude to Air Serbia for doing a great job and organising more flights than everyone could have expected. He also thanked the Serbian government for their support.

Naysmith said that today Air Serbia will operate five flights, three to Zurich and two to Frankfurt .

In addition to Zurich, London, Vienna and Frankfurt, by the end of the month we will also fly to Amsterdam and Paris, then to Ljubljana, Tivat and other cities in the region, and as of 6 June to New York. Thank you everyone for your help and support, he said.