Adria Airways (JP, Ljubljana Joze Pucnik (LJU)) is planning to set up a base in Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA) as the Albanian capital continues to grow both as a business and tourism hub according to the company's CEO, Mark Anžur. This summer, Adria will join twelve other airlines currently serving Tirana, the biggest of which is Belle Air (LZ, Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA)), when it plans to launch flights to Frankfurt International (FRA), in addition to boosting its Ljubljana Joze Pucnik (LJU) service from seven to ten weekly. Following the strong performance of the airline's Ljubljana Joze Pucnik (LJU) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) flights, Adria is reconsidering resuming flights to London Luton (LTN) and Berlin at some point in the future. However, within the former Yugoslavia, the Slovenian carrier has seen a fall in passenger numbers at its second hub in Pristina (PRN), owing to "increased low cost competition and demographic changes". Adria is also facing stiff competition in Skopje Alexander the Great (SKP) from Wizz Air (W6, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) who, since the demise of MAT Macedonian Airlines (IN, Skopje Alexander the Great (SKP)), have become the dominant carrier there.

CSA Czech Airlines (OK, Prague Vaclav Havel Ruzyne (PRG)) has retired its five B737-500s by January 14 when it has operated its last scheduled B737-500 flight on behalf of wet-lease customer Belle Air (LZ, Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA)) from Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA) to Prague Vaclav Havel Ruzyne (PRG) one day after its last own scheduled services. The remaining five B737-500 had an average age of 20.5 years. CSA's fleet now consists of four ATR 42-500s, four ATR 72-500s, nine A319-100s, four A320-200s and two A321-200s.

Darwin Airline (F7, Lugano Agno (LUG)) has announced plans to launch a daily A320-200 service from Zurich Kloten (ZRH) to Pristina (PRN) from December 14 and a twice weekly A319-100 service between Geneva Cointrin (GVA) and Pristina (PRN) from December 20. The two new routes are part of the new alliance between Darwin Airline, Belle Air (LZ, Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA)) and Belle Air Europe (L9, Ancona Falconara (AOI)) that had just recently been made public. Belle Air and Belle Air Europe A319-100s and A320-200s will be operating on these new routes between Switzerland and Kosovo.

Belle Air (LZ, Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA)) has announced a new "regional carrier alliance" which includes sister carrier Belle Air Europe (L9, Ancona Falconara (AOI)) and Darwin Airline (F7, Lugano Agno (LUG)). The carriers plan to jointly use their fleets through dry and wet lease arrangements, enter codeshare and ticketing agreements and aim to find cost synergies by combining some of their procurement processes. Belle Air operates 2 A320-200s, 2 A319-100s and 2 ATR 72-500s from its base at Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA), Belle Air Europe operates an A320-200 and an A319-100 predominantly on routes from Pristina (PRN) and Skopje Alexander the Great (SKP). The two carriers already share their fleet today. Darwin has six Saab 2000s based at Geneva Cointrin (GVA), Lugano Agno (LUG) and Rimini Federico Fellini International (RMI).

Belle Air (LZ, Tirana Rinas Mother Teresa (TIA)) has temporarily wet-leased B737-500 OK-XGA (MSN 26539) from CSA Czech Airlines (OK, Prague Vaclav Havel Ruzyne (PRG)) to cope with high demand on its routes between Albania and Greece as well as Italy during the summer months.