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| Founded | 8 February 2021; 4 years ago (8 February 2021) | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 10 June 2021; 4 years ago (10 June 2021) (asAir Montenegro)[1] | ||||||
| Hubs | Podgorica Airport | ||||||
| Secondary hubs | Tivat Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
| Destinations | 15 | ||||||
| Parent company | Government of Montenegro | ||||||
| Headquarters | Podgorica,Montenegro | ||||||
| Key people | Vukadin Stojanović, CEO | ||||||
| Website | airmontenegro.com | ||||||
To Montenegro a.d. (stylised as ToMontenegro and2Montenegro), is the flag carrier of Montenegro, which is branded and operates under the nameAir Montenegro (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Ер Монтенегро), a new company opened in early 2021 by thegovernment of Montenegro.[2] Air Montenegro officially launched operations in June 2021.[3]
The predecessor airline companyMontenegro Airlines was founded on 24 October 1994, by the government of the Montenegro Republic. The first aircraft, aFokker 28 Mk4000 (nicknamed "Lovćen"), was purchased almost two years later in 1996.[4] The first commercial flight took place on 7 May 1997, at exactly 10:30 between Podgorica andBari,Italy.[4] In April 2000, its became a member of theInternational Air Transport Association (IATA).[4] In June 2000, the first of fiveFokker 100 aircraft was delivered toPodgorica Airport.[4] The airline joinedAmadeus CRS on 5 March 2003.[4] In 2004, Montenegro Airlines' pilots were the first in the region to be granted the IIIA certificate. In August 2016, it was reported that accounts belonging to Montenegro Airlines had been frozen after the airline failed to comply with a court ruling regarding the payment of debts to the operator of the country's airports. Montenegro Airlines owed the company more than US$15 million.[5]
In December 2020, theGovernment of Montenegro announced the shutdown and liquidation of the Montenegro Airlines a.d company in the forthcoming weeks stating mismanagement and accumulating losses for several years.[6][7] Shortly after, it was announced that the airline would suspend all flights from 26 December 2020 marking the end of its operations.[8]
On 29 December 2020, it was announced by MinisterMladen Bojanić that the Montenegro Airlines would be reorganized and replaced with a new company theTo Montenegro (2 Montenegro), as the new Montenegrin flag carrier airline.[9] The liquidation procedure of Montenegro Airlines would cost about 50 million euro but it is inevitable, as the country's competition authority has ruled that the law for public investment in the flag carrier adopted in 2019 was illegal, the government said in December 2021.[10]
The new company was officially introduced on 2 March 2021 by the government. In April 2021, it was reported that the Montenegrin government madeAir Montenegro the official name for the ToMontenegro project and that the airline would start up using two Embraer 195 aircraft, transferred from former Montenegro Airlines.[11] On 10 June 2021, then Minister of Economic Development of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, paid a visit to the neighboringRepublic of Serbia, being one of the passengers at the first commercial flight of the new national airline Air Montenegro toNikola Tesla Airport inBelgrade.[12][13]
Despite being formed in 2021, the name "Air Montenegro" had existed beforehand. In 1990 a private start-up airline with name Air Montenegro was formed. Air Montenegro operated for about two years until was shut down due to war in ex Yugoslavia region. Company had an Airline Operator Certificate and used a single YAK-40 jet aircraft registration LZ-DOB on a wet lease contract from Bulgarian airline Hemus Air.[14]
It operated flights to Bari Italy with the flight number 9901/9902 inherited for Adria Airways which operated the same line before the war
| Country | City | Airport | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | Yerevan | Zvartnots International Airport | Seasonal |
| Azerbaijan | Baku | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | Seasonal[17] |
| Czech Republic | Brno | Brno-Tuřany Airport | Seasonal[17] |
| Prague | Václav Havel Airport Prague | Seasonal[17] | |
| France | Lille | Lille-Lesquin Airport | Seasonal[17] |
| Lyon | Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport | Seasonal | |
| Nantes | Nantes Atlantique Airport | Seasonal | |
| Paris | Charles de Gaulle Airport | Seasonal | |
| Germany | Frankfurt | Frankfurt Airport | |
| Italy | Rome | Rome Fiumicino Airport | |
| Montenegro | Podgorica | Podgorica Airport | Hub |
| Tivat | Tivat Airport | Focus city | |
| Serbia | Belgrade | Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport | |
| Slovakia | Bratislava | Bratislava Airport | Seasonal |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana | Ljubljana Airport | |
| Switzerland | Zurich | Zurich Airport | |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Istanbul Airport | |
| İzmir | İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport | Seasonal |
As of July 2025[update], Air Montenegro operates the following aircraft:[18][19][20]
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | |
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| Y | Total | ||||
| Embraer 195 | 3 | — | 116 | 116 | Two owned by Air Montenegro; one added in June 2025 on dry lease.[18] |
| Total | 3 | — | |||
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | 2021 | 2023 | Leased fromHeston Airlines |
| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | Leased fromTrade Air |
| Embraer 190[16] | 1 |
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