Centavia (Central European Aviation) was a short-lived Serbian low cost airline. Its hub airport was Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport in Serbia while its technical base was in Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany. The airline declared bankruptcy on November 8, 2006.
Centavia was founded in 2005 and received its first aircraft, BAe 146-200, on 15 June 2006 from Meridiana. The aircraft was re-registered as YU-AGL1 2_34 and re-painted with Centavia's livery...
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Centavia (Central European Aviation) was a short-lived Serbian low cost airline. Its hub airport was Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport in Serbia while its technical base was in Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany. The airline declared bankruptcy on November 8, 2006.
Centavia was founded in 2005 and received its first aircraft, BAe 146-200, on 15 June 2006 from Meridiana. The aircraft was re-registered as YU-AGL1 2_34 and re-painted with Centavia's livery. Centavia first (charter) flight was on July 8, 2006 to Corfu from Belgrade and it operated only charter flights during the summer of 2006. The airline's second aircraft arrived on August 17, 2006 and has been registered as YU-AGM12_3.
Centavia was to be the first airline to operate flights from Belgrade to Zagreb since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. However, the Croatian Authorities rejected the airline's application, saying that no bilateral agreements existed between the two states and that the European Open Skies Agreement, ratified by...
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