✈Sarajevo Airport passengers decline in January

FlyBosnia A319 with EYOF-2019 Sarajevo sticker 

First month of the year Sarajevo Airport registered slight passengers decline of 1%. Airport recorded 10% decline in aircraft operations or 100 operations less then in January of last year. Even though airport recorded significant decline in aircraft operations, the airlines are using larger aircraft on its scheduled flights to/from Sarajevo compensating with aircraft with larger capacities. During month of January Turkish Airlines majority of its flights operated with Airbus 321, Austrian Airlines operated about 50% of its flights using Airbus 319 instead of much smaller Airbus 220, while Air Serbia used Airbus 319 twice to three times weekly. Croatia Airlines used Airbus 319 couples of times on its flights to Sarajevo during January too. 

Month of February should see solid increase in passengers due to Sarajevo hosting European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) from 09-16 February 2019. Total of 1.100 athletes will participate in the games from 46 national federations, many of them arriving by air using Sarajevo Airport.

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA