On 15 March 1923, aircraft of the Franko-Rumen company started operations from Pančevo airport.

A few days later on 25 March, services between Paris and Istanbul via Pančevo commenced, the first international flights to or from Belgrade.

On 9 September the same year, the first aircraft took off on a scheduled service from Belgrade to Bucharest.

CFRNA (Compagnie franco-roumaine de navigation aérienne) decided that flying at night was the only way for its aircraft operating on the Paris-Belgrade-Bucharest-Istanbul service to beat the famous Orient Express train to Istanbul.

Franco-Roumaine changed its name to CIDNA (Compagnie internationale de navigation aérienne) in 1925, which used Pančevo Airport until May 1927.