It started with a double Decker
In 1928, stood for the first Time an aircraft of Air Serbia. The airline is looking back on a turbulent history.
It went from Belgrade to Zagreb: On 15. February 1928-the first flight society, which is now called Air Serbia was launched. At the time, her Name was Aeroput and she was around eight months previously established. At 9 o'clock in the morning, the double took Decker by the name of Beograd.
The aircraft of the type Potez 29 by the French manufacturer Aéroplanes Henry Potez had should document a group of five journalists and photographers on Board, which the trip. After a two-hour flight and several rounds over Zagreb, the machine landed. In the afternoon we went back to Belgrade.
Etihad increases
The Potez 29 was space for two Crew members and five passengers, and was approximately 10.7 metres long. It was powered by a Lorraine-12E-Courlis engine and had a maximum speed of 219 miles per hour. From Aeroput to Air Serbia was not directly. After the Second world war, it was in 1947, nationalized more than Jugoslovenski aerotrans port JAT Airways with two Douglas DC-3 and two Junkers Ju 52.
As the first European airline is close to JAT in 1985, the Boeing 737-300 operating. At the end of this decade, the Airline Association of Yugoslavia with 61 goals on five continents and carried up to 5 million passengers per year. With the end of the state of Yugoslavia in 2003, the Name Jugoslovenski aerotrans port has been removed and replaced by Jat Airways.
Today's fleet
Ten years later, in August 2013, then the next exchange: Etihad Airways acquired 49 percent of the airline, and was responsible for the renaming in Air Serbia. In 2016, the Airline started connecting Belgrade – New York, its first transatlantic Route for 24 years.
Today, the fleet of Air Serbia consists of one Airbus A330, two A320s, eight A319s, three ATR-72-500 and three ATR-72-200. Four Boeing 737-300 are also in the Charter business under the brand, Aviolet.