Air Serbia Lands in Canada

Air Serbia will introduce a direct flight between Toronto Pearson (YYZ) and Belgrade Nicola Tesla (BEG) starting next spring. It’s the first flight to operate between the two cities since 1992.

Toronto will be the airline’s third North American destination. Presently Air Serbia flies to New York JFK and Chicago O’Hare. 

The new route will operate on an Airbus 330-200 and is scheduled to operate twice a week, starting on May 23, 2026.

The route is expected to be used heavily by the visiting friends and relatives and leisure travel segments. Aviation Week reports that in the 2021 Canadian census 93,000 people identified as having Serbian heritage, and many of them live  in Toronto and Southern Ontario.  Sabre Market Intelligence data shows two-way origin and destination traffic between Canada and Serbia totalled about 92,800 passengers in 2024. All those passengers had to take connecting flights, generally through Frankfurt, London Heathrow or Munich. Travel between Toronto and Belgrade accounted for roughly 49,000 passengers—more than half of the total market.

The route will also serve as a connection point for people travelling to other locations in Southeast Europe. Air Serbia will offer one-stop connections from Toronto to more than 20 destinations across its regional network, including Athens, Sofia, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Skopje and Zagreb.

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