Short history of the airport from 1992 to 2016:
- March 1992 last commercial flight on Air Commerce.
Air Commerce YAK42 at SJJ 1991
Air Commerce was the first Bosnian airline. Private owned but short lived due to the war. - April 4. 1992. JNA (Yugoslav National Army) took control over the airport and hand it over to Bosnian Serbs paramilitary forces.
- June 1992. United Nations took control over the airport for humanitarian purposes (UN Security Council Resolution
757). Mandate for this mission was given to the French detached air force unit
called the "French Detair". At that time
the airport served for UN military purposes and for humanitarian aid flights to
provide basic necessities to the Sarajevo city population.
SJJ 1993
SJJ 1993 - The period from June 1992 to December 1995 will be remembered as the longest humanitarian airlift in history of UN for supplying the besieged city of Sarajevo.
- 13.000 operations in more than three years considerably
surpasses Berlin airlift of the Allies for air transport of supplies to West
Berlin.
SJJ 1994
SJJ 1994
- The airport re-opened to civilian air traffic on 16 August 1996 and has since been renovated and slowly returned to its former glory.
SJJ 1994
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SJJ 1994
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SJJ 2010
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SJJ 2010
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Sarajevo International Airport statistics data from 1996-2016
Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA
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