The airline Air Serbia will offer domestic flights again for the first time since the separation of Montenegro and Serbia. The plan is to fly four times a week between Belgrade and Nis. Government subsidies are used for this. But it doesn't look good for the route between Kraljevo and Vienna.

The background to this is that the Serbian government is now subsidizing two weekly trips from Kraljevo to Istanbul, Thessaloniki and Tivat. Vienna is no longer included in the list of financially supported routes from this airport. The route to the Austrian capital is currently only operated until December 30, 2021. The setting is therefore highly likely.

There will also be other routes from Nis that are subsidized by the Serbian government. These are Tivat, Athens, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Cologne / Bonn and Frankfurt-Hahn. The last-named airport recently had to file for bankruptcy. Within Serbia, four weekly circulations between Belgrade and Nis are subsidized.

The new subsidies will come into effect on January 1, 2022 and will run until December 31, 2023. The contracts for the previously subsidized routes will expire on December 30, 2021. According to a communication from the Ministry of Transport, subsidies will no longer be paid for the previously subsidized destinations.

As a result, not only will Kraljevo-Vienna be discontinued with a high degree of probability, but from Nis the destinations Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden, Friedrichshafen, Gothenburg, Nuremberg, Rome and Salzburg could also be omitted. However, Air Serbia has not yet decided whether one or the other destination could continue on its own.