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SMATSA Staffing Shortage Puts Pressure on Serbia’s Airspace Capacity and Aviation Revenue

Serbia’s expanding air traffic is facing a capacity constraint as Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services (SMATSA) deals with staffing shortages that are contributing to delays and putting pressure on revenue from international overflights. EUROCONTROL data have repeatedly identified the Belgrade Area Control Centre among Europe’s significant sources of en-route delays during periods of heavy summer traffic. Belgrade ranked among Europe’s five largest contributors to en-route air-traffic-flow-management delays, with about 1.4 minutes of delay per flight. Staffing limits operational capacity…