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Air Serbia

Flag carrier of Serbia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Air Serbia is the flag carrier of Serbia. The airline is headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia, and operates its main hub at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. Air Serbia is the successor to Serbia's and former Yugoslavia's national airlines, including Aeroput, JAT, and Jat Airways, and operated under the name Jat Airways until it was renamed and rebranded as Air Serbia in 2013 as part of a major restructuring and modernization programme. The airline is owned by the Government of Serbia, which became the sole shareholder after previously partnering with Etihad Airways.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Air Serbia” is flag carrier of Serbia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Serbia, Flag and carrier, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Serbia, Flag and carrier is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “flag carrier of Serbia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Air Serbia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Air Serbia primary sources, Air Serbia archive and Serbia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Air Serbia”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Air Serbia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.