Air Serbia is terminating its Belgrade – Lyon service after just over three years of operations. The route, launched in June 2022, was initially set to transition into a seasonal summer service this year but has now been permanently withdrawn. The airline has stopped ticket sales for 2026, when flights were originally scheduled to resume in March. In addition, Air Serbia has scrapped plans to operate a limited number of services between the two cities during the upcoming holiday period in late December and early January.
The development follows the airline’s launch of flights to Geneva this summer, with the Swiss city located approximately 180 kilometres from Lyon. In addition, Wizz Air will introduce a limited seasonal winter service between Belgrade and Grenoble in January, situated just 110 kilometres away. Air Serbia becomes the second carrier to discontinue operations between Belgrade and Lyon, following Wizz Air’s short-lived service between the two cities from June to October 2019. The Serbian airline will continue to maintain flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle and Nice, having also briefly operated to Marseille between May and September 2023.
France remains one of Belgrade Airport’s busiest markets. During the first half of the year, Air Serbia handled 94.226 passengers on its Paris Charles de Gaulle service, while an additional 38.977 travellers flew with Wizz Air on the Belgrade – Beauvais route. Air Serbia also carried 32.543 passengers on its flights to Nice. Later this month, easyJet will become the newest airline to enter the Serbia–France market with the launch of its Paris Charles de Gaulle – Belgrade service. Over the past two years, two other carriers – Air France and ASL Airlines France – have also attempted to compete on routes between the two countries. On the other hand, Transavia France had planned to operate flights between Paris Orly and Belgrade this summer but withdrew before the launch due to issues related to Belgrade Airport’s fuel supplier at the time.
