Plane Takes Off Despite Jat Tehnika Strike

Jat Airways airplane on the JU 330 flight to Zurich has departed as scheduled at 3:25 p.m. and standard preparations for flights to Istanbul and Tivat, despite an announced strike by Jat Tehnika, which has for a number of years a fully independent enterprise. Jat Airways hopes that all subsequent flights will be carried out as planned, that there will be no strike, but points out that Jat Tehnika will bear full responsibility in the event of flight cancellations.

"We have no precise information with regard to strike by Jat Tehnika, but the most recent events have confirmed that certain measures envisaged in the consolidation plan we recently submitted to the Serbian Government were justified", Jat Airways CEO Srdjan Radovanović stated. "Under the plan, we are to transport at least one and half million passengers next year with the 16-aircraft fleet and also record a positive turnover. This, among other things, can be achieved also by setting up our own line aircraft technical maintenance."

A maintenance agreement based on economic principles was in late August signed with Jat Tehnika, as opposed to the previous years when Jat Tehnika was paid a monthly sum regardless of the volume of work it performed.

Jat Airways is asking its passengers for understanding and will be airing information as its arrives.