Friday, June 26, 2015

Air Serbia experience

Back in January I flew with Air Serbia from Warsaw to Abu Dhabi via Belgrade. Why? A couple of reasons. New places to see, new airline to fly and more. 4 flights on the Airbus A319, 3 of them Air Serbia and one Etihad but operated by Air Serbia so it counts as Air Serbia as well. The routing was very simple. A round trip WAW-BEG-AUH-BEG-WAW. On the short flights (to and from Warsaw) the service was modest. A bag with a sandwich, a cookie, a little bottle of water and tissues was handed to every passenger. On the longer flights we had a full meal, we could even choose :P Most of the flights were during night hours. We had sun shining only for the landing in Abu Dhabi. This is the reason for not so many pictures from the flights. This and the fact that those have been simple A319s, so photographing every detail made no sense.
My opinion about Air Serbia? Why not. The service is of decent quality, planes have been rather clean, crew made no problems. The food might not be of highest quality but it is eatable so ok. As you can see the sandwiches were pretty poor. I'd surely prefer to pay a little bit more and get a properly made bun. Transiting in Belgrade is easy and as JU has good connections from WAW to AUH. I might use them again on that route. One thing that might bother some passengers is that you fly a A319/A320 for a long time, and on the night flights you've got to sleep on it. Well, in business class there are proper seats (if anyone is interested) but in economy it's nothing special.
During my stay I also had an occasion to go for spotting both in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai and visited the aviation museum in Belgrade. Check the links for more. There is a seat review video at the end of the entry.

JU635 (2045-2225)
WAW-BEG
YU-APJ A319



The food bag
The inside of the food bag
The sandwich with ham
Belgrade airport airside
Belgrade airport airside
Belgrade airport entrance

JU800 (2315-0730+1)
BEG-AUH
YU-APB A319



Chicken...
...and beef
The sun is slowly coming out



On final approach to runway 13L

Taxiing to the terminal past the new tower



Etihad A320 family line-up



Baggage belt



EY71 (0215-0520)
AUH-BEG
YU-APF A319
Etihad check-in counters


A new A380 preparing for departure




JU634 (1800-1940)
BEG-WAW
YU-APE A319
Belgrade airport landside
Belgrade airport landside
The salami sandwich




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