22 Facts About JAT Airways

Jat Airways was the national flag carrier and largest airline of Serbia, and formerly Yugoslavia.

Jat Airways was owned by the government of Serbia and had 1,250 employees.

On 1 August 2013, the Government of Serbia and Etihad Airways entered into an agreement that reorganized the operations of Jat Airways, and renamed it Air Serbia after the transitional period ended.

JAT Airways purchased several Douglas DC-6Bs for long-haul routes in 1959.

JAT Airways constructed a large hangar to accommodate wide-body aircraft and a jet-engine test stand at their Belgrade hub.

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JAT Airways management decided to re-route North American long-range flights to Canada.

However, Canada quickly followed and banned all JAT Airways flights entering the country, terminating all JAT Airways operations across the North Atlantic.

Jat Airways introduced their online booking system in September 2006 and electronic tickets in April 2007.

On 3 July 2008 the Jat Airways reestablished air links with neighbouring Croatia after a 17-year absence.

Etihad JAT Airways was granted management rights over the carrier for an initial five-year period.

Subsequently, Jat Airways changed its name to Air Serbia and everything else was kept unchanged, continuing to be a joint stock company, the commercial entity registered in the APR, and with all the rights and obligations of Jat Airways.

At that moment, Jat Airways was working at full power and fulfilling the obligations of regular and chartered passenger transportation, as agreed in its business plan for 2013.

Shortly afterwards the airline changed its livery and added a logo on the tail section with a red shaped egg on the tail in which JAT Airways was written in white, a logo kept for the rest of the SFR Yugoslavia period.

In 1996, the livery was slightly modified, with JAT Airways being painted in billboard size at the front with a small Yugoslav flag in the "A" in JAT Airways.

The new logo was the name Jat Airways written with three dots in blue, red and blue following it.

Jat Airways offers cargo services on all destinations in its network with special cargo only flights to Podgorica and Tivat in Montenegro, in addition to passenger flights as well.

In 1953, JAT Airways began organizing their flights with the introduction of flight codes.

Towards the end of August 1959, JAT Airways transported its millionth passenger since the founding of the company back in 1927.

Jat Airways was to become the first operator of the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft.

JAT Airways began its anti-smoking campaign with ban smoking on its domestic flights in 1987.

In 2004, Jat Airways was named one of the safest airlines in Europe by the IATA.

Jat Airways pilots are considered among the best trained pilots in the world.