Flights resume between Serbia and Croatia

Serbia is to resume its first scheduled flights with neighbouring Croatia since a war between the two Balkan states in the 1990s.

A JAT Airways statement issued today said Serbia’s flag carrier will start flying from Belgrade to Pula on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast tomorrow.

The twice-a-week service will continue throughout the summer tourist season until August 31.

The move looks set to herald the opening of new scheduled and charter connections between the two neighbours.

All scheduled flights between Serbia and Croatia ceased in 1991 during Croatia’s bloody war for independence from Yugoslavia.