Air Montenegro launches scheduled flights

Successor carrier Air Montenegro has begun scheduled commercial flights today, launching with a service from Podgorica to Belgrade. Air Montenegro’s launch of scheduled flights comes less than six months after the collapse of Montenegro Airlines in late December 2020. The government first outlined plans for a successor carrier in early January after registering the new company. Air Montenegro CE Predrag Todorovic notes that the carrier was able to get airborne in three and a half months, having been established on 8 February. The launch of scheduled flights comes after the airline carried out its maiden flight at the start of June, a service carrying the Montenegrin national football team to Sarajevo. In addition to flights to the Serbian capital, the airline will serve the Slovenian capital Llubljana, Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Frankfurt from 15 July. Montenegro’s economic development minister Jakov Milatovic says: ”I am very pleased to attend today the first commercial flight of the new national airline Air Montenegro. With this, the Government fulfilled the promise given five months ago that Air Montenegro will take off before the main tourist season.”<br/>