NASLEĐE / HERITAGE 1963.
THE JET ERA BEGINS WITH THE CARAVELLE JAT’s first jet plane was a Caravelle that was named Dubrovnik. It arrived on 21 st January 1963. It was a real sensation after aircraft with piston engines. The Caravelle, produced by French manufacturer Sud Aviation, transported 80 passengers and was the pride of JAT. Its praises were sung so much in the media of the time that it was even claimed that this beauty of the sky could not fall. JAT’s planes of the time not only offered comfortable flying, but also good eating. By 1967 the airline’s food was bought from the Hotel Metropol, prepared by the best chefs, and then it launched its own catering division, which was even used for a year by the renowned Air France. The end of the 1960s represented the period of rapid modernisation. The first McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 arrived in 1969. Not long after, the company purchased its first Boeing 727- 200. When a Boeing 707 entered the fleet, JAT had developed a substantial network of intercontinental flights to Australia, North America and the Far East. In November 1974 one of JAT’s Boeing 707 planes circled the entire globe along the route Belgrade- Beirut-Mumbai-Singapore-Tokyo-Honolulu-Los Angeles-London- Belgrade.
Mlazna era počinje sa karavelom Prvi mlazni avion JAT-a bila je karavela koja se zvala Dubrovnik . Stigla je 21. januara 1963. godine. Bila je prava senzacija nakon aviona sa klipnim motorom. Karavele, francuskog proizvođača Sud Aviation , prevozile su 80 putnika i bili ponos JAT-a. Toliki su hvalospevi po medijima ispevavani u to vreme da se čak tvrdilo kako ova lepotica neba ne može da padne. U JAT-ovim avionima u to vreme ne samo da se udobno leti već se i dobro jede. Do 1967. godine hrana je nabavljana iz hotela Metropol , spremali su je najbolji kuvari, a onda je pokrenut sopstveni ketering koji je godinu dana koristio čak i renomirani Er Frans . Kraj šezdesetih predstavlja doba ubrzane modernizacije. Prvi mekdonel-daglas DC-9 stigao je 1969. Nedugo potom nabavljen je i boing 727-200. Kada je u flotu ušao i boing 707, JAT je razvio i značajnu mrežu interkontinentalnih letova ka Australiji, Severnoj Americi i Dalekom istoku. Jedan JAT-ov boing 707 je tokom novembra 1974. godine obleteo čitavu Zemljinu kuglu rutom Beograd–Bejrut–Bombaj–Singapur– Tokio–Honolulu – Los Anđeles – London–Beograd.
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