Jat Airways
Jat Airways (IATA designator JU) is the national carrier of Serbia and Montenegro and ranks as the sixteenth oldest European airline.
Jat Airways 2003-
JAT logo 1995-2003
It was founded in 1927 as Aeroput, the name changed in 1947 to Jugoslovenski Aero-Transport and then to Jat Airways in January of 2003.
On 26 January 1972, in a bomb attack(probably by Ustasas), JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 crashed in Czechoslovakia, leaving flight attendant Vesna Vulović as the only survivor. This has been the airline's only fatal incident.
JAT Boeing 737-300, in old colours
- Four ATR 72's
- Six DC-9-30's
- One DC-10 currently leased to Cubana de Aviacion for its Havana-Madrid flights
- Two Boeing 727-200's
- Ten Boeing 737-300's
- One Boeing 737-400
Jat Airways carried its millionth passenger on a local flight on October 20th, 2003. By 2004, Jat Airways is expecting to fully replace its ageing fleet; first to go are the noisy Boeing 727s. These will be replaced by Boeing 737s (two more by April of 2004).
It also plans to establish a charter company called Interlink, to cover Southeastern Europe including Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, FYROM, Albania and Bulgaria i.e. all major traffic bounded between Trieste, Salonica, Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.
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