Vucic opens CAPA 2024 aviation summit in Belgrade

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic opened the CAPA 2024 international aviation summit in Belgrade on Thursday, noting that Serbia's national airline Air Serbia had become a strong driver of the development of not only air transport and tourism but the entire national economy and Serbia's international image.

Aviation is a bridge that connects dreams with reality - today, that bridge is getting wider, more stable and more important for the future of mankind, Vucic said.

CAPA has been leading the way for more than three decades, offering know-how and analyses shaping the global aviation industry, he said.

He said he was pleased and proud Belgrade was able to host the prestigious summit, which he noted had a reputation based on independence and integrity.

This is another proof of Belgrade's commitment to a vision and to new technologies, and of how much it wants to show the entire world how focused on the future it is, Vucic said.

"Thanks to you, Belgrade is the hub of world aviation today. Symbolically, we are especially glad this event is being held in Serbia, a country that has been registering an epochal boom in air transport in recent years," Vucic said.

He said that, like CAPA, Air Serbia had become a vision since its establishment, "with the youngest fleet in the region, a record-high four million passengers carried this year and historic flights such as those between Belgrade and Tokyo."