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09. December 2002 - Monday |
Yugoslavia's JAT resumes flights to Albania after 21 years
TIRANA - Yugoslav airline JAT will resume flights to neighboring Albania on December 15 after a 21-year absence, Albanian civil aviation officials and the carrier said today.
Nestor Vrioni, an official with Albania's civil aviation department, called the resumption of service between Tirana and Belgrade "another factor speaking of the normalization of Albanian-Yugoslav relations in the context of the political progress they have had recently."
JAT, which began flights to Albania in 1938, halted service in 1981. Although relations between the two countries were frozen at the time, JAT said service stopped because there weren't enough passengers, and not for political reasons.
Italian- and Spanish-produced ATR72 62-seat planes will run three Belgrade-Tirana flights a week. Round-trip tickets will cost about $110.
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