The April 6 Jat Airways flight to Stockholm marked the Serbian national carrier's 40th anniversary of the regular line to this city in Sweden. The flight was part of this year's To Europe on the Wings of Tradition campaign, marking the company's regular flight anniversaries to a number of European destinations.
Determined in its resolve to maintain pace with commercial aviation technical-technological advancement in the world and following the movement of our nationals in western European countries, and then also to Scandinavia, Jat has recognized the possibility of connecting Belgrade with such centers a large number of our nationals were attracted to. As early as 1963, Jat airplanes were already flying to Copenhagen, Malme and also to Gothenburg. This period was thought to be of pivotal importance with regard to the then Yugoslav Airlines owing to the then most modern jet air liners - Caravelle SE210, which were twice as fast as the then existing Convair CV 340/440 and could carry twice as many passengers. When Jat took on the sixth Caravelle SE210 on January 11, 1968, the national air company felt it had sufficient capacity to upgrade the existing domestic and Euro-Mediterranean traffic as well as to expand its commercial flight network further toward the cities in western and northern Europe. Thus, Stockholm was added as another in the series of new Jat destinations.
A good example of how each air company follows the fate of its country may be appreciated when the UN Security Council adopted the Resolution 757 on May 30, 1992. Already on June 2 that year, the Yugoslav football team was among the passengers on last Jat flight from Stockholm to Belgrade. Traffic was re-established to Stockholm as late as December 10, 1995. Although committed to investing serious efforts to restoring the entire line network over the coming three years, the Serbian national air company met yet with another economic barrier – on September 9, 1998, Jat was banned from flying to the European Union member countries. The next day, among the first to impose a flight ban on Jat regular and charter flights were Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria.
Following the EU decision on February 14, 2000, to lift the flight ban, Jat airplanes were ready to renew the old and include new destinations. Thus, Jat aircraft took off for Stockholm on March 31, 2000. Since that time, this line has regained its status of one of Jat regular and more profitable destinations. Current assessments say an estimated 85,000 of our nationals live in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malme. In 2007, Jat airplanes performed a total of 469 flights to Stockholm and carried as many as 31,561 passengers in the process.
According to its 2008 Summer Timetable, Jat Airways flies to Stockholm six times a week. Jat passengers land at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, which handles some 19 million passengers annually and offers excellent connections to cities within Sweden such as Malme, Jonkoping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Kristianstad, Linkoping... Also a number of passengers fly by Jat via Stockholm on their way to cities in the neighboring countries such as: Helsinki, Talin, Riga, Trondheim, Vilnius, Vaasa, Reykjavik. | 
