✈Sarajevo airport gearing up for busy summer

Sarajevo International Airport

Photo by Kontrola letenja

Sarajevo International Airport will break an all time record since starting operations 45 years ago in terms of handled passengers and cargo. The airport is gearing up for a very busy summer with a great amount of charter flights and increased frequencies on regular flights due to high demands for flights to Dubai, Stuttgart, Oslo and Istanbul. July and August will be the busiest months for the airport and in one of the months there is a possibility that  the airport will break record its of 100,000 passengers in one month. The highest number of passengers recorded in one month was in August of last year with 88,591 passengers handled.

Table showing available seats by airline and destination for August 2015

Airline/Destination	Number of flights/Seats/Aircraft	Total number of seats offered
Flydubai DUBAI	18x174x2 (Boing 737-800)	6.264
Corendon ANTALYA	18x189x2  (Boeing 737-800)	6.804
Borajet ANTALYA	9x100x2  (Embraer 190)	1.800
Air Cairo HURGHADA	5x177x2 (Airbus 320)	1.770
FlyEgypt HURGHADA	4x189x2  (Boeing 737-800)	1.512
Germanwings STUTTGART	9x144x2  (Airbus 319)	2.592
Germanwings COLOGNE	14x144x2  (Airbus 319)	4.032
Swiss GENEVA	9x97x2 (Avro RJ-100)	1.746
Swiss ZURICH	13x97x2  (Avro RJ-100)	2.522
Norwegian OSLO	6x189x2  (Boeing 737-800)	2.268
Norwegian COPENHAGEN	2x189x2  (Boeing 737-800)	756
Norwegian STOCKHOLM	7x189x2  (Boeing 737-800)	2.646
Air Serbia BELGRADE	31x66x2  ( ATR-72)	4.092
Croatia Airlines ZAGREB	57x76x2 (Dash 8-400)	8.664
Adria Airways LJUBLJANA	18x84x2  (CRJ-900)	3.024
BH Airlines ZURICH	18x66x2 ( ATR-72)	2.376
Lufthansa MUNICH	31x168x2  (Airbus 320)	10.416
Austrian Airlines VIENNA	31x138x2 8556  (Airbus 319) 31x168x2 10416 (Airbus 320)	18.972
Pegasus ISTANBUL	31x189x2 (Boeing 737-800)	11.718
Turkish Airlines ISTANBUL	62x165x2 20460  (Boeing 737-800) 18x180x2 6480    (Airbus 321)	26.940
	Total	120.914

Source:FlyingBosnian