AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN CLOSER As many as 28 flights to New York during October Over the course of this month, passengers will have 7,112 seats available on Air Serbia flights to The Big Apple A ir Serbia will increase its capacities on Bel- grade-New York flights and in October it will perform 28 flights, four more com- pared to October 2019. During October, passengers will have available 7,112 seats on the flights to e Big Apple, which is a 16.7% in- crease compared to the 6,096 seats available in the same period last year. “Due to increased demand, we have
decided to increase the capacity on our New York flights. We are very happy that, despite the Coronavirus pandemic, this route is still doing well and has proved to be one of Air Serbia’s top routes,” said Air Serbia General Manager Commercial and Strategy, Jiri Marek. Since launching this direct transat- lantic route in 2016, Air Serbia had op- erated a total of 758 return flights until the end of August 2020. With the renewal of flights across the Atlantic, the nation- al flag carrier reconnected the region di- rectly with the United States, following a break of almost two and a half decades. at 23 rd June 2016, at precisely 8:08am, an Airbus A330 was lifted into the sky above Belgrade. is flying giant, with more than 250 passengers aboard, landed at JFK Airport after nine and a half hours, thereby officially marking the reopening of a direct line from Bel- grade to New York after a break of near- ly a quarter of a century. e plane, with the flight code JU 500, carrying the cel- ebrated name of Nikola Tesla, was re- ceived at this famous New York airport with a salute of water cannons as a wel-
From Belgrade to New York operates Airbus A330 named after legendary Nikola Tesla Od Beograda do Njujorka leti erbas A330 nazvan po legendarnom Nikoli Tesli
jući obnovi transatlantskih letova, nacionalni avio-pre- voznik je pre četiri godine ponovo povezao region i SAD nakon pauze od gotovo dve i po decenije. Tog 23. juna 2016. godine, tačno u 8.08, podigao se u vazduh nad Beogradom erbas A330. Leteći gigant sa više od 250 putnika sleteo je posle devet i po sati na Aerodrom Džon Ficdžerald Kenedi (JFK), čime je i zvanično otvorena direktna linija Beograd–Njujork posle gotovo četvrt veka. Avion pod oznakom JU 500, pod slavnim imenom Nikola Tesla , dočekan je na nju- jorškom aerodromu vodenim topovima u znak dobro- došlice, a pozdravio ga je i elektronski bilbord na kojem je pisalo: „JFK aerodrom pozdravlja Er Srbiju “. Od tada do danas Er Srbija je postala i ostala jedina avio-kom- panija u jugoistočnoj Evropi koja nudi transatlantske letove za SAD prevozeći desetine hiljada zadovoljnih putnika, kojima rođaci ni prijatelji više nisu daleko u dalekoj Americi.
come gesture, while it was also greeted with an elec- tronic billboard that read “JFK Airport welcomes Air Serbia”. Air Serbia has since remained the only air- line from Southeast Europe to offer direct transatlan- tic flights to the U.S., carrying tens of thousands of satisfied guests for whom relatives and friends are no longer so distant in faraway America.
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