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Written by Aleksandar Karić First flight: BEG-FCO JU530 4th August 2023 On the 4th August I took a flight from Belgrade to Rome. The flight was operated by Marathon Airlines on their E195 aircraft, featuring the full Air Serbia livery. Since the flight was scheduled to depart at 06.45h, I arrived at the airport at around 04.15h. There was already a queue at the check in counters, so the total waiting time to check in was around 45 minutes. After that, I headed to passport control and the security checkpoint and expected to spend the same amount of time there, but, to my relief, I passed both in 10 minutes.
I went to Coffee Cake bar and paid 1160 dinars (around 10 euros) for 2 hazelnut flavoured iced coffees. I spent the rest of the time there until boarding commenced. Boarding started 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time, and I got seated in my seat 19A. About 6.30h the crew announced that we are waiting for some passengers from the Moscow flight and that the departure time has been moved by 20 minutes, but our real departure time was 7.30.
From that point everything was very fast. Quickly after take off the seatbelt sign was turned off and service started. It consists of Air Serbia branded water and 2 noblice cookies.
We touched down with around a 20-minute delay and then spent more than an hour at passport control at FCO. It was a total mess, some American tourists went to the wrong counter, so they needed to pass by all the people that waited there, and then go to US/CA/EU control. My baggage was already delivered by the time I arrived at the belt.
Second flight: FCO-BEG JU535 20th August 2023 Since this whole trip was organised by a travel agency, I had a shuttle to the airport and arrived at FCO around 2 and half hours before departure. Check in wasn't open yet but a guide from the agency went somewhere to see what's happening, and they told him that the desk opened at 19.00. After check-in, I went to the security check, which I passed in 2 minutes, so I thought that I would pass through passport control quickly as well. That was really wishful thinking. Of about 30-40 checkpoints only 2 were open! So, I waited there for 1 and a half hours. After that I rushed through duty free and some fancy stores.
The gate for our flight wasn't announced yet so I had time to buy some food, which was cheaper than at BEG. 2 crepes were 10 euros. As I finished at the cafe, the gate was announced, E51, that looked a lot like the old A10/A9 gates at BEG. Boarding started on time, and we departed 30 minutes later. The complimentary service started soon after, noblice and water. I later bought apple juice for 300 dinars. We landed about 15 min later.
Even though there were a lot of people at passport control at BEG I passed it in 5 minutes and afterwards waited another 5 minutes for my baggage to show up.
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Title: TRIP REPORT: Air Serbia, Belgrade - Rome
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Published Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:59:00 +0000
