flydubai launched flights last week to its western-most destination with the introduction of 4-times weekly flights from Dubai Airport to Belgrade in Serbia using a 737-800.
Flights from Dubai depart at 09:10 in the morning and are scheduled to take 5 hours and 45 minutes while flights from Belgrade depart at 12:40 and are scheduled to last just over 5 hours.
The airline is now serving 44 destinations non-stop from Dubai. In the first 10 months of 2011 Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport’s passenger numbers have grown impressively by 16% compared with 2010 and the airport is well on course to handle over three million passengers, despite on-going issues at its national carrier, JAT Airways.
JAT recently axed its Dubai service (via Larnaca). Since the start of the summer season Belgrade has welcomed new services from Olympic Air (Athens), SkyWork (to Bern-Belp) and Wizz Air (to Brussels Charleroi, Eindhoven, Gothenburg City, Memmingen, and Stockholm Skavsta).