A Swiss airline landed in Montenegro for the first time

The plane of the Swiss company Chair Airlines with about 140 passengers landed at the Podgorica airport for the first time today.

In the future, Chair Airlines will operate on the route Zurich-Podgorica-Zurich twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, and from July, according to announcements, three times.

At the beginning of May, it was announced that Montenegro is no longer on the list of risk countries of the Swiss Federal Institute for Public Health, and that entry into Switzerland from Montenegro is again possible without quarantine.

The President of the Board of Directors of the Airport of Montenegro, Nebojsa Đoković, said that he is pleased that today they can welcome tourists from one of the richest countries.

"This is not the first time that Swiss tourists come to Montenegro. They previously came via Montenegro Airlines and Easy Jat, where the traffic in both directions was about 35 thousand of their tourists," Djokovic said.

He said that the number of flights for the upcoming summer tourist season is increasing every day, and that according to announcements, Podgorica will have about 30 operators, and Tivat airport about 20.

"We already have established lines that went to Vienna, Istanbul, Luxembourg, Belgrade, Tel Aviv. We expect a season that will be much better, regardless of the pandemic, due to a good vaccination and immunization process," Djokovic said.

Djokovic added that the convenience for Swiss tourists and many others is that they are exempt from PCR tests and that they are given free treatment if they get sick.

"We are pleased to be able to announce a much better season for us, after a difficult year for the airport, which of all activities was perhaps the most affected. If we reach 50 percent of what we had in 2019, we will be satisfied," he said. Djokovic.

He stated that from the beginning of the year to the end of April, 97 thousand tourists visited Montenegro, while last year for the same period there were 233 thousand, and in the record year 2019 404 thousand, and that about 70 percent of these tourists pass through Montenegrin airports.

Djokovic also said that there are announcements that Lukost companies will start flying from Montenegro again, but that he cannot speak specifically about that, because the negotiations are still ongoing.

The passengers we talked to at the Podgorica airport, who are mostly from Montenegro, said that they were happy that the line was re-established, but that the tickets were more expensive than when MA operated on the same route. They said that they were asked for a PCR test upon entering Montenegro.