A third direct air route to China has been recently added by Serbian national carrier Air Serbia.
Now there are direct flights from Belgrade to Guangzhou, Tianjin and Shanghai.
Air Serbia’s Chief Executive Officer Jiri Marek came to Shanghai with the first flight on January 11 and visited the headquarters of Chinese online travel agency Trip.Com Group. There is a mutual visa exemption agreement for tourists between the two countries since 2016.
Both countries eliminated tariffs on 90 percent of the goods imported from each other according to the China-Serbia Free Trade Agreement that came into effect last July.
As Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said during Air Serbia’s Belgrade-Shanghai inaugural flight ceremony on Jan. 10, bilateral trade between China and Serbia almost achieved EUR7 billion (USD7.2 billion) last year. Serbia accepted nearly 147,000 Chinese tourists in the period.
From Chinese part, Hainan Airlines has launched flights from Beijing to Belgrade since July 2022, and China Southern Airlines launched direct flights on the Guangzhou – Belgrade route last September.
China’s international flight network layout has tended towards countries along the Belt and Road Initiative after the Covid-19 pandemic. 178 airlines have been approved to fly between China and 79 countries by the Civil Aviation Administration of China this winter-spring season. 57 of them were BRI countries (10,326 weekly flights or 53 percent of the total).
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