"Fly Niki" to introduce Belgrade-Vienna flights on February 1st, 2010

- Austrian low-cost air transportation company "Fly Niki" will start flying from Belgrade to Vienna on February 1st, 2010 - it was announced yesterday (November 30, 2009).

The owner of company "Fly Niki", former Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, expressed the expectation that he would fly the airplane on the first Belgrade-Vienna flight of that company.

Low-cost company "Niki" will be trasporting passengers in airplane "Embraer" six times a week, every day except on Saturday.

Lauda expressed the satisfaction with the fact that the citizens of Serbia would not need Schengen visa any more, and he said that it would increase the interest in the offer of flights by airliner "Niki".

The Deputy Director General of Airport "Nikola Tesla", Velimir Radosavljević, expects "Fly Niki" to be able to introduce the flights from Belgrade to large number of destinations in Europe very soon because of the market potentials.

Lauda's company "Niki" has 12 airplanes, and it transported about 2.7m passengers in 2009.

Low-cost air transportation companies "German wings", "Norwegian Air Shuttle" and "Nordic Airlink" are already transporting passengers from the Belgrade airport, while low-cost company "Wind Jet" announced that it would start flying between Bologna and Niš on December 26th.