Air Serbia to keep flying to Tel Aviv as long as security is guaranteed

BELGRADE - Air Serbia will continue to fly to the Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport as long as it has security guarantees from Israeli aviation authorities, Air Serbia Captain and Flight Operations Director Dusan Milatovic told Tanjug on Thursday.

"Everything is alright for the time being. As long as Israeli aviation authorities guarantee safety - and they are covering the corridor we come through from the north, the flights will proceed. We are in constant contact with European and Israeli aviation authorities and we make decisions based on their information. The decision for now is that the flights will be continued," Milatovic said.

He said there were no major differences between planning scheduled flights and flights in war-affected zones, except for an additional risk assessment, carried out by the Air Serbia security department in collaboration with an Airbus technical pilot.

"Once we cross-check the information we get from them and when we add to that the information from our handlers (the take-off and landing service) in Tel Aviv, we get the right picture and, based on that, we make a decision on whether the flight will take off at all," Milatovic explained.