"India" operated six flights on Saturday and transported over 600 passengers

Already on the first day of use in the national company's fleet, the new product demonstrated its effectiveness.

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Siniša Luković

19.07.2026. 10:26h

Less than 12 hours after arriving in Podgorica on Friday evening, where it was delivered by the lessor, the Dutch company TrueNoord, the newest Embraer E195 aircraft in the fleet of the national airline Air Montenegro (4O-AOI), already started flying in the carrier's regular traffic on Saturday.

On the first day of its use in the fleet of the Montenegrin airline "India", as this aircraft is nicknamed, it carried a total of six flights in regular and charter traffic, on which this aircraft transported a total of 605 passengers.

According to data provided to "Vijesti" by Air Montenegro CEO Vuk Stojanović, "India" took off from Podgorica for Belgrade at dawn on Saturday at 6:11 a.m. with 93 passengers, and returned from Belgrade to Podgorica airport at 8:30 a.m., bringing 109 passengers.

As early as 9:44 a.m., the new E195 in the national airline's fleet flew from Podgorica to Prague with 106 passengers, and from the capital of České Budějovice it returned to Podgorica at 2:16 p.m. with 102 passengers. By the end of the day on Saturday, "India" had also completed one rotation on the route between Podgorica and Lille in France, between 7:08 p.m. and 11:04 p.m., transporting 101 passengers on the outbound and 94 passengers on the return.

The total performance of the new E195 in the Air Montenegro fleet on its first day of operation was 605 passengers carried with an average cabin load factor of almost 85,44 percent, which shows how necessary the acquisition of this aircraft was for the further expansion of the national airline's fleet. In total, 4O-AOI spent eight hours and seven minutes in the air on its commercial debut for Air Montenegro on Saturday on those six flights.

Air Montenegro has taken the “Indija” on a long-term dry lease, under which the Montenegrin company provides the crew, maintenance and insurance of the aircraft, and pays a monthly rental fee of $115.000 to the aircraft owner, TrueNoord, for its use. This E195 has 118 passenger seats, was manufactured in October 2011 and is currently the youngest of four aircraft of this type in the Air Montenegro fleet.