Croatia Airline has said it is not interested in joining any sort of former-Yugoslav fleet alliance, in a response to media inquiries after the Serbian Secretary of State’s called for the union.

Croatia Airlines said it had achieved its strategic objectives by joining Star Alliance, the biggest global airline network in 2004. Any further developments would be based primarily on cooperation with other members of that alliance, it added.

Serbian Secretary of State for Infrastructure Miodrag Miljkovic had called on the other airlines in the region to follow a recent example of Serbian JAT Airways and Montenegro Airline and share their fleets.

Airline experts say it is not clear what such an alliance would entail. Darko Prebezac, a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Economics says that while Serbian and Montenegrin companies may have an interest in Croatian markets, the interest may not be mutual.

"The time for such alliances has passed for CA, and today it would only make sense to ally with partners of higher quality," Prebezac said for Croatian Poslovni dnevnik.