#SERBIA #JATJugoslovenskiAerotransport #B733

This dedication goes to the people at JAT Jugoslovenski Aerotransport. The three dots are certainly missing






The trip in one word:

FAREWELL


"You don´t need an new airport or airline everyday. The theme with this story is simple, to fly a last time, or maybe twice, on the three dots"



Zdravo, hello, dear readers,

here is today´s first flight:




Thanx once again to:

http://www.gcmap.com/

And this happens just a few days after the return from France.
Should someone believe it or not, I´am off the standard track.
This is after a long time and several occasions the first experience not to leave the homebase that early in the morning.
No mobile alarm needed today, much more relaxed it is!.



Monday, 14.10.2013

STR (Flughafen Stuttgart)
BEG (Аеродром Београд - Никола Тесла / Aerodrom Beograd - Nikola Tesla) 

Service JU 347 operated by JAT Jugoslovenski Aerotransport
Scheduled:  10.40  //  12.20

Here we see some lately checked airlines:


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A couple of plane types recorded:


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All the visited countries:


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Some visited airports:


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And also one or two more:


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The Tripreporter 2013 and it´s final edition:


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And here is 2014:


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It seems this is a farewell year for me.
JAT change it´s name and also partner to Air Serbia
from late October onwards.
And I like to be one more time, or maybe twice, on these planes with the three dots.
Up at 05.45 am, just a little bit earlier with possible queues on the motorway. Worth it in the end. 1.15 hours in comparison to 25 minutes at the best case early in the morning.
And yes, P0 has an open spot for me, sorry, for the car.
Ah, the good old times, no OLCI available.
Counter check-in it is and the nice middle aged woman told me about a good number of open seats on the STR-BEG leg.
And I´am sure, you know these kind of glance, when the machine printed also a second boarding pass and she saw my routing.
Well, I´am usually not on the beaten track and today is no exception!.
This ticket is fixed with Opodo, the fare for the first leg is
65.00 Euro´s.
Better not to go for Palma this morning and also Dalaman looks not like really funny, but the JAT works well, nothing else expected, especially today!


There is no lounge used.
Security is a breeze this time of the day, hard to decide which lane to use, but finally it works and I´am in the gate area!. The very same at passport check.
There is a classic 737-300 on schedule and so it looks like here at gate 337


This is YU-AON, no individual name to notice.
A 737-300 as ordered, leg no. 54 on type and new to the log


Talking about oldies, this one is in the air since 12.01.1988 with Transbrasil, Region Air, ILFC, JAT and nowadays Air Serbia.
Bolts departing the wing inflight?. No problem with JAT!:
http://avherald.com/h?article=41eb644d&opt=0
http://avherald.com/h?article=467debd0&opt=0


10.40 am, perfectly ontime to leave the "Flughafen Stuttgart". "JAT" on the way for 1.30 hours ex runway "Two-Five" with rain and 9 degrees.
Nothing to miss here in Germany.
Yes, this is a classic cabin with superclassic ceiling


Low legroom, retro brown and heavily used it is


Let´s go for more details


Cabin crew is all senior and ok, like the plane. Two men, two women, the younger staff on training for Air Serbia?.
The magazine and the mixed blue brown fabric seats


Cockpit crew is from Serbia, the "Kapetan" with detailed infos inflight in a well experienced style and once again during approach with the latest weather report.
Flightlevel is 33000 feet and more details to come with the new video channel.
Yes, that´s what I´am looking for. As retro as possible


Some snow and the service. A cheese sandwich
coming with free drinks


It´s the 14th today, good to know that these date isn´t the to-be-used-to date, no, it´s the production date, ahem, really?


A low load of local pax, but certainly not the STR locals so it looks like, on the way.
20A and three for me


Nice colours and landscape close to BEG


Touchdown at the 3400 meters runway "One-Two".
12.15 am, short ahead to schedule and 21 partly cloudy degrees.
A warm welcome to the "Aerodrom Beograd - Nikola Tesla"


Bye now to my possible last time, don´t get me wrong, I simply like this name, on an JAT Jugoslovenski Aerotransport 737-300


And I like to see the three dots once again today, but on another equipment, hopefully like preordered!

Another stamp for the passport is swiftly done and
the schedule, ok I´am not uninvolved, shows me a good time now till the next flight. Heading for the city, isn´t it?.
The A1 runs for the main train station at 300.00 Serbian Dinars one way and this is it right now.
Good to see one waiting.
Leaving at the coach station close to "Brankov Most".
Well, if there is not enough space for you´re business inside simply use the green, ahem, brown outdoor, too.
There are just a couple of apartments available and oldfashioned busses, no way!


Further up for the "Kneza Mihaila"


With these really nice dated entrances


Close to the "Biblioteka Grada Beograda" and the "Kalemegdan"


Along the river "Sava"


Take care here, these tram´s running on the fast track


The "Cathedral Church"


And the "Konak Kneginje Ljubice"


Just in case if there is some medicine needed


This one looks so nice with it´s wood drawers, like hundred years ago


So we are at the main train station "Beograd"

Where there should be an A1 bus stop.
Well it should be, but it isn´t, at least not visible for my foreign eyes.
A signage is a total waste of money, the locals know the place where the bus stops, definitely!.
But I´am no local and I´am not that really pleased when I see an A1 driving along, but doesn´t stop here anywhere and disappears again.
Well, one more try, isn´t it?. Some more minutes later I see another one and with the worldwide accepted signals, jump and wave, it seems it was funny enough for the driver to stop and pick me up!.
Puh, on the way back for the airport just a little bit later as expected, but on the way.

Bye now.
The TRIPREPORTER