News about JAT - commercials, more aircraft and flights

[JAT_boy_BEG]

Its been quite a while since i have posted in the forums, and looking back and not finding any JAT topics in the last 8 or so pages i thought i might post.

FLEET UPDATE:
All 10 B733's have returned to Belgrade and actively fly for JAT. The B734's have been removed but 1 is said to be returning which is apparently YU-AOS. Another ATR-72 has just last week arrived from Helsinki on lease, and is said to have been painted in the Jat Airways livery and re-reistered as YU-AOS.
http://www.airserbia.com/forum/download ... &mode=view
Also, a leased B732 (YU-ANP) is being leased from a Serbian airline Aviogenex after arriving home to BEG from a lease to Sudan Airways.

NEW FLIGHTS:
JAT has increased a whole heap of flights:
- 5 extra flights per week: CDG, Monastir
- 2 extra flights per week: DXB via BEY, OHD, SKP
- 1 extra flight per week: LHR, TLV via LCA
Flights to Paris have almost doubled, foing from daily to 12 per week. Monastir is a restarting summer flight along with Ohrid going on route BEG-SKP-OHD-BEG. Dubai is going back to the usual 5 p/w via BEY. LHR is receiving an extra frequency which was previous from Tivat, and another frequency is for TLV via LCA. ZRH has had increase, with a couple flights a day from BEG offered just from JAT. JAT has also intended to re-open flights to Slovenian city Portoroz but have canceled plans to do so apparently due to lack of aircraft.

TV COMMERCIALS:
JAT has started promoting themselves through a series of TV commercials. They feature famous Serbian people ranging from the well known tennis players Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic, to Serbian football/soccer players Mateja Kezman and Dule Savic and singer Zdravko Colic and are all in Serbian only - sorry to non speakers.
* First commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIkB7NickE
* Second commerical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyItE3Sb68
* Third Commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5XsNUtCGro
* Fourth Commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoP4cGbar8E

EMERGENCY LANDING:
JAT flight JU211 operated by a B733 (YU-ANI) made a emergency landing into LHR after an engine caught fire after 5 minutes of departing Heathrow in late May. After requesting emergency landing, they were granted priority landing, landing safely 15 minutes later with passengers and crew un-injured.

PRIVATISATION:
JAT is expected to be sold off to Russian airline, Aeroflot. They are looking at investing for new aircraft, new destinations - including those trans atlantic, and have promised to keep the airline name as is, staff, CEO, aircraft etc. Air India is also said to be intrested.

[sn26567]

Nice update on JAT activities. Thanks!

[hakan]

Thanks for the updates.

Do you know the privatisation may finish?