Air Serbia announces codeshare agreement with LOT Polish Airlines
09 June 2015
Air Serbia announced a codeshare agreement with LOT Polish Airlines to provide travellers with enhanced connections between Northern, Eastern, Southeastern Europe, and the Middle East.
The terms of the agreement were signed in Miami during IATA's Annual General Meeting by the CEO's of the two partnering airlines.
The code share agreement will be active, as of 08 June 2015. Air Serbia will have its "JU" code on LOT's flights to Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga, allowing business and leisure travellers to book round trips between Belgrade and the three capital cities of the Baltic states via Warsaw. The above mentioned code share flights are uploaded in the reservation system, and will be open for sale upon receiving regulatory approvals.
Passengers of LOT Polish Airlines will aslo benefit from enhanced access to the Balkans and the Middle East under the partnership, with the airline's "LO" code being placed on Air Serbia's flights to Podgorica and Tivat, as well as its daily service to Abu Dhabi. The LOT code share flights beyond Belgrade, are also awaiting regulatory approvals by the Montenegrin and the UAE Civil Aviation Authorities.
Dane Kondić, Air Serbia's CEO, said: "Codeshare agreements are an important pillar of our strategy to continuously offer our guests greater choice and flexibility to key destinations, and our commercial partnership with LOT is a crucial step in further enhancing our presence in Northern Europe via Warsaw. We are now able to boost our business and leisure travel offering between Serbia and the Baltic States, and onwards to other endpoints throughout this strategically important European region. We are equally pleased to welcome our guests from Poland and to provide them with a convenient gateway to the Balkans, the Middle East and beyond, through our hub in Belgrade".
Sebastian Mikosz, LOT's CEO, said: "We are very happy, that together with Air Serbia we are now able to offer our passengers new exciting destinations and extend even more travel opportunities. Passengers travelling from Warsaw gain the possibility to reach the capital city of UAE, and two major cities in Montenegro. On the other hand we are constantly enhancing our connectivity via Warsaw. Air Serbia passengers will be now able to take advantage of LOT's convenient hub on their way to Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga".
LOT Polish Airlines is Air Serbia's 13th codeshare partner besides Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Aeroflot, airberlin, Air China, Air France, Alitalia, Bulgaria Air, Etihad Airways, Etihad Regional (Darwin Airline), KLM and TAROM offering a total of 40 additional destinations, covering endpoints across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.
About codeshare flights
A codeshare agreement (codeshare) is an aviation business arrangement where two or more airlines share the same flight. Each airline can publish and market the flight under its own airline designator and flight number as part of its flight schedule. A seat can be purchased on each airline's designator and flight number, but is operated by only one of these cooperating airlines, commonly called the operating carrier. The term "code" refers to the identifier of an airline used in flight schedules, generally the two-character IATA airline designator code and flight number.
Air Serbia significantly expanded its network through codeshare agreements with Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Aeroflot, airberlin, Air China, Air France, Alitalia, Bulgaria Air, Etihad Airways, Etihad Regional (operated by Darwin Airline), KLM, LOT and TAROM and currently serves 40 additional global points thorugh these partnerships.
About LOT
LOT Polish Airlines is a modern, European carrier bringing connectivity to CEE region with over 40 destinations in the world, including Europe, North America and Asia. High quality of services and professionalism of LOT crews have been honored a number of times with the award for the best airline in Central and Eastern Europe. LOT as the flag carrier of Poland is a modern airline – the first in Europe which operates a fleet of the latest generation - the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Since 2003 LOT is a member of Star Alliance whose network currently offers more than 21,900 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries all over the world.