Hainan Airlines boosts Belgrade service

Hainan Airlines will introduce a second weekly flight between Beijing and Belgrade this coming summer season. The additional weekly frequency will commence on Tuesday April 18, complementing its Saturday rotation. All flights will be maintained by the 292-seat Airbus A330-300 aircraft. China will resume outbound group tours for Chinese citizens to another forty countries on top of the twenty initially announced last month. Among those is Serbia. Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, recently told EX-YU Aviation News the carrier was working on securing a codeshare agreement with Hainan Airlines. The Serbian carrier plans to launch its own flights to Beijing and Shanghai this year, to complement its existing Tianjin service, although operations are unlikely to commence before the fourth quarter due to the slow pace of gaining necessary permissions for flights from the Chinese regulator.