Bomb Threats Can’t Stop One of Russia’s Last Air Links to Europe
- Frequent false alarms make the Serbian routes unprofitable
- Serbian President Vucic vows service to Russia will continue
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State-controlled Air Serbia will maintain its controversial flights to Russia “as a matter of principle,” even as frequent bomb threats make the routes unprofitable, President Aleksandar Vucic said Monday.
Virtually every outbound flight to Russia has received anonymous threats since most of Europe closed its airspace to Russian carriers, causing delays or requiring the plane to return to its airport of origin for security checks, Vucic said in a live interview on Pink TV.