Jat Airways

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Jat Airways (IATA designator: JU) is the national airline carrier of Serbia and Montenegro and ranks as the 16th oldest European airline.

Jat Airways 2003-

JAT logo 1947-2003

It was first founded in 1927 as Aeroput, its name changed in 1947 to Jugoslovenski Aero-Transport and simply Jat Airways in January of 2003.

On 26 January 1972, in a bomb attack(probably by Ustasas), JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 crashed in Czechoslovakia, leaving flight attendant Vesna Vulović as the only survivor of the flight. This was the airline's only fatal incident.

Its current fleet includes:

Four ATR-72's
Six DC-9-30's
One DC-10 that is currently being leased to Cubana de Aviacion for its Havana-Madrid flights
Two Boeing 727-200's
Ten Boeing 737-300's
One Boeing 737-400

Jat Airways serviced its millionth passanger on a local October 20th, 2003 flight. By 2004, Jat Airways is expecting to fully replace its ageing fleet, first to go are the noisy Boeing 727s that will be replaced by Boeing 737s (two more by April of 2004).

It also plans to establish a charter company called Interlink that is set to cover a large portion of Southeastern Europe including Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, FYROM, Albania and Bulgaria i.e. all major traffic bounded between Trieste, Salonica, Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.

Most accurate airline company-85% of flights were made on time last year(London airports information for 2003)

External Links

Official Jat airways webpage

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