Air Serbia has continued to add aircraft to its fleet this year to build up its capacity ahead of what is going to be a very busy summer. Along with adding multiple ATR72 aircraft for is regional routes, it has now also added a Boeing 737 and an Airbus A319. Let’s take a look at the details.

Air Serbia takes a Boeing 737 for the summer – again

Last Saturday, 21st May, Air Serbia took delivery of a new aircraft that it is wet-leasing on a temporary basis only, during what is expected to be a very busy summer period.

The aircraft is a Boeing 737-700, and it is operated by Lumiwings, a Greek airline that has been storing this 737 in Nea Anchialos National Airport (VOL) near Athens since February this year.

It carries the registration SX-LWC, and it is 19 years old, having been delivered to Transavia in June 2016, according to our data from ch-aviation. Back then, it was registered as PH-XRD.

As Simple Flying reported in July 2021, Air Serbia did the same thing last summer. To meet the rising demand for charters to Turkey, Greece, and Egypt, Air Serbia leased a Smartwings Boeing 737-700 registered OK-SWT. It was mostly used for charters, but it also operated scheduled services, including to Milan Malpensa (MXP).

Air Serbia used to operate Boeing 737s under the brand name Aviolet. This was its dedicated charter brand that made excellent use of Air Serbia’s very old 737-300 aircraft that were first delivered to JAT Yugoslav Airlines brand new in the 1980s.

The Boeing 737 is already flying scheduled routes

Air Serbia has already started deploying the newly-arrived Boeing 737 aircraft on selected scheduled routes. Yesterday, Sunday 22nd May, the 737 operated the evening rotation to Zurich under flight numbers JU374 and JU375. Today, Monday 23rd May, it operated the morning rotation to Zurich as JU370 and JU371.

The two Brussels rotations that the aircraft has operated for Air Serbia are normally operated by an Airbus A319 aircraft, though the evening flight to Zurich got an upgrade to an A330 last Wednesday as Air Serbia begins to use its single wide-body aircraft for short-haul flights that are seeing high levels of demand.

Tomorrow, the 737 is scheduled to fly to Brussels. Other destinations that Air Serbia will be deploying it to in the next week, according to its current scheduled, include Milan Malpensa (MXP) and Tirana (TIA) once each, and Berlin (BER) on multiple occasions.

An Airbus A319 has already arrived

Another aircraft that Air Serbia has added to its fleet but which has not entered service yet, is an Airbus A319 registered as YU-APN and which has been in Belgrade since 19th May.

This jet had already been painted in Air Serbia’s livery before it was delivered on that day from Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport (MPL). Unlike the 737, this A319 is not coming to Air Serbia’s fleet on a temporary basis.

As Simple Flying reported in April, Air Serbia plans to run over 1,000 charters this summer. It also continues to take deliveries of used ATR72-600 aircraft.

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