✈ Air Arabia is increasing Sharjah-Sarajevo flights

Air Arabia is increasing Sharjah-Sarajevo flights from daily to 10 weekly, the airline is adding second daily flight on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, flights are scheduled to operate from June 10^th to September 8^th. Air Arabia will operate a total of 266 flights offering 44.688 seats. During the peak of summer season Sarajevo Airport will be served with 35 weekly flights from three airports in United Arab Emirates.

• Flydubai will offer 21 weekly flights between Dubai (DXB) and Sarajevo
• Air Arabia will offer 10 weekly flights between Sharjah (SHJ) and Sarajevo
• Wizz Air will offer 4 weekly flights between Abu Dhabi (AUH) and Sarajevo

During April-October period Sarajevo Airport will be served from United Arab Emirates with a total of 1.062 flights, offering 198.792 seats, making it second most served country from Sarajevo, right after Türkiye.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Flydubai to operate 3 daily flights Dubai-Sarajevo

Flydubai has added a third daily flight between Dubai and Sarajevo. The airline will operate three daily flights from  July 15. to September 01. During the summer timetable Flydubai will operate a total of 556 round-trip flights offering 96.744 seats. Together with Air Arabia and Wizz Air, United Arab Emirates will be second most served market from Sarajevo International Airport with 199.692 seats on offer from April to November.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Sarajevo Airport schedule for December 2021

Next month Sarajevo International Airport is expecting to reach passenger numbers of pre-pandemic traffic of December 2019. Total of 13 airlines will serve the airport with 29 routes across Europe,  Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates.

Wizz Air will station second Airbus 320 at the airport, introducing seven new routes from Bosnian capital to: Billund, Cologne, Frankfurt-Hahn, Hamburg, Malmo, Oslo-Sandefjord and Venice-Treviso. With the fleet of two Airbus 320 aircraft based at the airport, Wizz Air will position itself as Sarajevo Airport busiest airline, offering  46.620 seats on 254 flights to seventeen destinations during December.

Also, next month Flydubai will be boosting its flight offerings from Dubai to 58 flights with 10.092 seats on sale. Swiss International Airlines will increase its service from Zurich from 16 flights in November to 26 in December, boosting its seats offering to 3.250 seats.

The city with the most frequencies out of Sarajevo is Istanbul with 20 weekly flights, followed by Vienna with 13 weekly flights. Countries with largest number of seat offers from Sarajevo are Turkey, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria and Sweden.

With Flynas, Gulf Air and Swiss International Airlines extending its flight operating during winter months Sarajevo Airport  is on the right track to reach 2019 numbers next year, when airport handled record number of 1.143.680 passengers. According to  Eurocontrol projections, majority of European airports are expected to reach pre-pandemic (2019) numbers in the year 2025, while Sarajevo Airport will reach 2019. numbers in upcoming year 2022.

During the month of December, the airlines operating at Sarajevo Airport have scheduled 858 flights, with 127.546 seats on sale. The airport is expecting to handle 75.000 passengers in December.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Flydubai to operate double daily flights to Sarajevo in December

Flydubai will operate double daily Dubai-Sarajevo flights from December 24, 2021. to January 08, 2022. due to high demand for travel between two cities for Christmas and New Year holidays.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Flydubai and Air Arabia to operate up to four daily flights to Sarajevo

 

On selected days during July, Flydubai will operate four daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. The demand for Dubai-Sarajevo flights is reaching pre pandemic levels when 3 daily flights were operated during summer season of 2019. Four daily flights Dubai- Sarajevo-Dubai will be operated on July 16, 23 and 24. For most of the summer season the airline will operate three daily flights from Dubai to Sarajevo. From July the airline will deploy Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on its Sarajevo service.

Air Arabia is increasing its Sharjah-Sarajevo service from July 12, up to two daily . Like Flydubai, Air Arabia will also operate four daily flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo on selected days during July. The airline will operate four daily flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo  on July 16 and 23, three daily flights on July 17and 24 (two from Sharjah and one from Abu Dhabi), two daily flights from July 18 until the end of the month. On selected days in July United Arab Emirates will be connected with Sarajevo with 8 daily flights. Increase of flights is expected to continue during the month of August as well.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport see strong summer bookings

• The airlines are responding to strong demand for Sarajevo travel, by increasing flights and capacity. Just today we published one new route from Gulf region to Sarajevo, Gulf Air’s new two weekly service from Bahrain to Sarajevo.

✈ Strong demand for air travel from Gulf countries to Sarajevo!

All airlines flying from Gulf countries to Sarajevo are recording extraordinarily strong demand for air travel to Sarajevo. At the beginning of the year the airlines were selling limited number of flights, but with the vaccines roll out and Covid cases under control in Bosnia, tourists from Gulf countries are returning in big numbers. Strong demand for vacationing in Bosnia has created many new flights between Gulf countries and Sarajevo.

From June 1^st FlyBosnia will fly two daily flights between Sarajevo and Riyadh. Flynas will maintain daily flights between two cities as well. During summer season Riyadh will have three daily flights from Sarajevo, making it most frequent route out of Sarajevo. Gulf destinations will definitely lead Sarajevo Airport to recovery from Covid-19 pandemic.

Two more airlines from Kuwait have applied for permit to operate flights from Kuwait City to Sarajevo, Kuwait Airways plans to introduce two weekly Kuwait–Sarajevo flights on June 07^th. Also, Jazeera Airways plans to launch Kuwait–Sarajevo flights on June 07^th with two weekly flights. Both airlines are waiting for approval from Kuwait Civil Aviation Authority for flight introduction. All Kuwait-Sarajevo flights are sold by the travel agencies with advanced bookings, even with approval coming late, the flights are already pre-booked.

Qatar Airways has postponed Sarajevo flight resumption until October, but this is a major mistake by the airline, since every single airline flying from that region is having remarkably successful summer.

The Gulf region-Sarajevo market is huge with solid growth year after year. The market has matured enough for Emirates to start its own flights, with two daily flights from Dubai in summer and at least 3 weekly flights during winter months.

Saudia Airlines is another strong contender for introduction of daily Sarajevo flights from Riyadh from March to October and 3 weekly flights during winter. Flights from Jeddah and Dammam could work as well.

In the future we will definitely see following airlines launching flights to Sarajevo: Gulf Air from Bahrain, Oman Air from Muscat, and Wizz Air from Abu Dhabi.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Attractive packages for tourists from the UA Emirates

 

Flydubai Boeing 737-800 landing at Sarajevo International Airport

Tourist community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.

This has been arranged in a joint meeting held in Sarajevo, which was attended by the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United Arab Emirates Šerif Mujkanović, representatives of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo and the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs as well as representatives of Sarajevo International Airport and the travel agency Bosnia Travel.

At this point of the pandemic, citizens of the United Arab Emirates have visa-free regime, without any additional requirements, what made the participants of the meeting that an additional attention should be directed towards the tourists from the UAE in the upcoming period.

It has been agreed, that the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo in cooperation with the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina would organize the arrival of leading tour operators, bloggers and representatives of media from the United Arab Emirates in Sarajevo. The ambassador Mujkanović will provide help in relation to discussions with tour operators and bloggers from the UAE and he will arrange specific cooperation activities between them and the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and domestic travel agencies.

According to the arrangement, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs, and the travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.

As of January 1st  2021, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo will open tourist info center at Sarajevo International Airport and set conditions so that every guest – tourist is adequately informed on tourist potentials of the Canton Sarajevo, destinations and other information in relation to the pleasant stay in Sarajevo and the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo International Airport will, in accordance with its possibilities and authorizations, create all necessary requirements regarding the reception and the flow of the UAE tourists at the airport.

Based upon the statistical data of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the tourists from the UAE visited the Canton Sarajevo quite significantly during the period of 2019 and 2020. There were more than 5.000 tourists from the UAE in 2020 for a period of ten months, with 25.000 overnight stays. The number of arrivals exceeded a number of 25.000 in 2019, with more than 90.000 overnight stays.

Currently Flydubai is offering four weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. From March 1st 2021 Flydubai will offer daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, increasing to two daily flights from the beginning of May 2021.

Source: Sarajevo International Airport

✈Sarajevo Airport Winter 2020-21

The 2020/21 winter timetable enters into force on Sunday, October 25^th. 2020. until March 27^th of 2021. This winter season will be like no other due to ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Majority of the world airlines are in survival mode operating at 20-30% capacity. 

Sarajevo Airport has been hit extremely hard with flight cancelations and airlines temporary withdrawal from the airport due to border closures and ever-changing entry rules. Passengers traffic is expected to plummet even deeper during upcoming winter months. Last winter season passengers were able to fly to 14 destinations in 11 countries in Europe and Gulf region with 81 weekly departures.

This winter season Sarajevo Airport will be served by: Air Serbia (Belgrade), Austrian Airlines (Vienna), Croatia Airlines (Zagreb), Eurowings (Cologne and Stuttgart), Flydubai (Dubai), Lufthansa (Munich), Pegasus Airlines (Istanbul) and Turkish Airlines (Istanbul). 10 destinations in 7 countries will be served with 44 weekly departures. Two largest markets out of Sarajevo are Turkey and Germany and will be served with following frequencies: Turkey will be served with 11 weekly flights: Turkish Airlines (5 flights) and Pegasus Airlines (6 flights), Germany will be served with 9 weekly flights: Lufthansa (4 flights) and Eurowings (5 flights). Due to entry regulations and decreased demand for air travel changes in schedules are highly likely (Schedule as of October 11, 2020). 

During Winter timetable 2020/21 number of available seats is 217.664, representing a decrease of -52,24% or -238.144 seats less, compared to the same time of the last year.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport flight resumption schedule

The airlines are slowly resuming Sarajevo operations, with 2-3 flights per week, gradually increasing to pre corona services during July and August.

 Sarajevo International Airport flights resumption schedule :

15.06.2020. Austrian Airlines (Vienna)

15.06.2020. Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)

16.06.2020. Eurowings (Cologne)

18.06.2020. Pegasus Airlines (Istanbul-SAW)

21.06.2020. Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-IST)

01.07.2020. Flydubai (Dubai)

01.07.2020. FlyBosnia (Antalya, Riyadh, Muscat)

01.07.2020. Air Arabia (Sharjah)

02.07.2020. FlyBosnia (Manama, Jeddah)

02.07.2020. Flynas (Riyadh)

03.07.2020. FlyBosnia (Kuwait City, Gassim)

06.07.2020. Lufthansa (Munich)

09.07.2020. FlyBosnia (Hail)

20.07.2020. Eurowings (Stuttgart)

03.08.2020. Eurowings (Berlin)

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo - Persian Gulf region summer 2020 network

Gulf region destination map from Sarajevo

Sarajevo International Airport will see another solid year when comes to connectivity to countries in Persian Gulf region. The airport will see Kuwait Airways launching flights from Kuwait City and flynas from Gassim. Flynas will significantly increase number of flights from Riyadh and Jeddah, extending flying season to the end of September. Flydubai is the only airline from the Gulf region that will see major flight decreases, due to the fleet shortage caused by grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. 

Last summer season Flydubai operated three daily flights from Dubai to Sarajevo, while this summer season the airline will operate only one daily flight from Dubai to Sarajevo. Flydubai flights are operated in cooperation with Emirates, offering wide range of connections on Emirates network out of Dubai. 

FlyBosnia will operate same number of destinations in Persian Gulf region as it did last year. Riyadh is the only destination with less flights when compared to the last year. Last year, FlyBosnia operated daily flights from Sarajevo to Riyadh from mid-June to the end of September, while this summer season the airline will operate three weekly flights from June 03, to September 06.

Due to Corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak, changes to flight schedules and flight cancellations are very likely.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport 2020 summer timetable news

• Adria Airways went bankrupt in September of 2019 and ceased all operation. The airline operated daily flights to Sarajevo with Bombardier CRJ-900 Aircraft. During 2019 Adria Airways transported 21.795 passengers between Ljubljana and Sarajevo. With Adria Airways bankruptcy Bosnia-Herzegovina has lost its only air link with Slovenia.
• Greek airline Aegean Airlines is boosting its number of flights from Athens to Sarajevo when compared to the last year when the airline introduced first ever scheduled air service between Greek and Bosnian capital cities. Aegean Airlines will run a total of 40 round-trip flights between two cities from May 26th to October 8th, representing an increase of 42% or 12 round-trip flights more when compared to the last year.
• Air Serbia will be operating early morning flight on Thursday’s offering connection to its Belgrade-New York flight. The airline will be using leased Bombardier CRJ-1000 aircraft offering 100 seats (an increase of 34 seats when compared to usual ATR-72 that Air Serbia operates on Belgrade-Sarajevo route).
• Croatia Airlines is increasing Zagreb-Sarajevo service, from 13 weekly to 14 weekly, all flights are scheduled to operate with Bombardier Dash 8-400 aircraft. With this increase Croatia Airlines will offer a total of 418 round-trip flights between Zagreb and Sarajevo, representing an increase of 5% or 20 round-trip flights more, adding additional 3.040 seats when compared to the same time of the last year.
• Air Arabia is slightly decreasing number of flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo, from last year’s 143 round-trip flights to this year 135. Reduction will result in 2.592 seats less on offer when compared to the summer of 2019.
• FlyBosnia will be operating majority of charter flights out of Sarajevo this summer with flights being reserved by Bosnian travel agencies, securing solid and safe earning for the airline. FlyBosnia will operate charter flights to Antalya in Turkey (daily flights), Hurgada in Egypt and Monastir in Tunisia. FlyBosnia will maintain scheduled regular flights from Sarajevo to: Riyadh (3x weekly), Jeddah (2x weekly), Grasim (2x weekly), Kuwait City (2 x weekly),  Rome via Mostar (2x weekly) and London (2 weekly). During April-October the airline is offering around 100.000 seats on its flights from Sarajevo and Mostar.
• The largest reductions of flights in summer timetable will be by Flydubai on its service from Dubai to Sarajevo. Due to the fleet shortage caused by grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft Flydubai is reducing Sarajevo service from last year’s three daily flights to this year’s one daily. Last year Flydubai operated a total of 332 round-trip flights, while this year the airline has scheduled 181 round-trip flight. Seats offered are down from 115.536 to 62.988, a decrease of 45% or 52.548 seats less.
• For upcoming summer season Saudi low-cost airline flynas is expanding Sarajevo network by introducing one more destination from Saudi Arabia to Sarajevo. Flights from Gassim (Qassim) to Sarajevo will be introduced on May 25th with three weekly services on board of Airbus 320 aircraft with capacity to seat 164 passengers. For the 2020 summer season flynas is adding additional flights from both, Riyadh and Jeddah (when compared to the last summer). Flights are starting in May and extending to the end of September. Riyadh-Sarajevo flights will be operated six times weekly from May 19th to September 5th, while Jeddah-Sarajevo flights will be operated five times weekly from May 19th to September 5th and then three weekly  from September 6th to September 30th. For summer 2020 Flynas is offering a total of 74.456 seats, representing an increase of 161% or 45.920 seats more.
•  Kuwait Airways has scheduled Kuwait City - Sarajevo flights beginning June 9th. Flights are scheduled to operate from June 9th  to September 12th , three times weekly with brand new Airbus 320NEO aircraft offering 134 seats (122 economy and 12 in business class seating configuration). Kuwait Airways is offering a total of 11.256 seats in both directions between Kuwait City and Sarajevo.
• Lufthansa is introducing second daily Munich-Sarajevo service. Second daily flight LH1742 will be leaving Munich at 21:30, arriving in Sarajevo at 22:50. Returning flight LH1743 is next day, early morning, leaving Sarajevo at 06:30, arriving in Munich at 07:55. This flight will enable many connections to Lufthansa’s worldwide network, making Sarajevo and Lufthansa’s world network reachable with only one stop in Munich! All flights will operate with Airbus 320 aircraft.
• Swiss Air is discontinuing its two weekly summer seasonal flights between Zurich and Sarajevo  

Detailed schedule by the airlines and seats offered will be published in coming days for all for international airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈flydubai to deploy Boeing 737 MAX 9 to Sarajevo

flydubai Summer 2019 737 MAX 9 network as of March 01.2019.

flydubai in last week’s schedule update gradually filed planned Boeing 737 MAX 9 operation for summer 2019 season, effective 31MAR19. As of 01MAR19, planned 737 MAX 9 service in S19 as follows:

• Dubai – Almaty eff 31MAR19 1 daily
• Dubai – Bahrain eff 21JUL19 2-3 weekly (until 08SEP19)
• Dubai – Bucharest eff 31MAR19 1 daily (until 29MAY19)
• Dubai – Sarajevo eff 01JUUN19 10 weekly (7 weekly from 28JUN19; until 08SEP19)
• Dubai – Zanzibar eff 01JUL19 1 daily (until 30SEP19)
• Dubai – Zanzibar – Dar es Salaam eff 31MAR19 4 weekly (7 weekly from 30JUN19)

Source: Routes online

✈Sarajevo Airport introduces Global Satellite Navigation System!

A new navigation satellite system providing safer and more economical landing was presented on Friday afternoon at Sarajevo International Airport (SIA).

After FlyDubai airplane safely landed at SIA, Transport Director Nermin Zijadic said that the new system, using a global satellite navigation system, will improve security and increase capacity.

"A better vertical and horizontal guidance will be achieved, and thus, the likelihood of possible accidents will be reduced," Zijadic explained.

Additionally, the introduction of Performance-Based Navigation will result in an increase of capacity because the new way of flying will allow a narrower trajectory, and airport administration will increase the number of flights.

"Delays and fuel consumption will be reduced and noise at all stages, both in approach and in departure, will be decreased," Zijadic said, adding that not only SIA will have benefits from new system but also other airports in the country.

Earlier, SIA used conventional procedures that use signals made by earth radio navigation devices, according to chief of security at Agency for the Provision of Air Navigation Services (BHANSA) Vlado Juric.

"This procedure will enable the aircraft to land in the event of a malfunction of our radio navigation devices and will thus directly contribute to continuity of operations at SIA," Juric explained.

The introduction of the procedure is the result of three-year-long joint work of the air traffic service provider NATS from Britain, BHANSA, SIA, BiH Civil Aviation Administration and FlyDubai.

✈Nine markets where LCC's account for over 50% of seats!

anna.aero has forecast that the LCC market will account for 50% of seats by 2027, this is a target which has already been reached in nine European country markets. The leading nation for low-cost market share in Europe is Macedonia, with LCCs accounting for just under 66% of the market in 2018. What is interesting to note however is that although Macedonia is Europe’s leading low-cost market when it comes to market share, the continent’s leading LCC, Ryanair, is not present in the market. Along with Macedonia, Gibraltar and Iceland (highlighted in light green) are also in the top 20, but are yet to see the Irish LCC’s tailfin grace its airports’ aprons. Bosnia and Herzegovina is taking sixth place in Europe in terms of LCC market share, with 56,2% seats offered by low cost airlines. Next month will mark arrival of Europe's LCC giant Ryanair on Bosnian market. Ryanair will introduce flights from Brussels Charleroi, Memmingen and Stockholm Skavsta to Banja Luka. All three destination will be served twice weekly. With arrival of Ryanair, LCC market share in Bosnia and Herzegovina will go over 60%, placing the country right after Macedonia.

Following LCC operate to/from airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

• Sarajevo : Air Arabia, Eurowings, Flydubai, Norwegian, Pegasus and Wizz air
• Tuzla : Wizz air (base)
• Mostar : Eurowings
• Banja Luka : Ryanair (begins 29.10.2018)

Source: anna.aero and Flying Bosnian

✈Flydubai to operate 3 daily flights to Sarajevo!

Flydubai has published its 2018 summer schedule. With beginning of summer timetable flights from Dubai International Airport to Sarajevo will go daily, during holy month of Ramadan when travel is minimal due to fasting flydubai will reduce its service to Sarajevo to two per week. After Eid holiday flights will go up to three daily. In total flydubai will offer a total of 124.236 seats on 714 flights between two cities during summer season.

Full flight schedule Dubai-Sarajevo

Flight	Departing DXB	Arriving SJJ	Days	Valid from-to
FZ 761	09:15	13:15	Daily	26.03-30.04.
FZ 8605	13:55	17:55	Daily	25.03-08.04
FZ 8605	03:10	07:10	Daily	15.06-15.09.
FZ 8697	13:55	17:55	Daily	16.06-15.09.
FZ 761	09:15	13:15	1-3-56-	02.05-12.05.
FZ 761	09:15	13:15	--3—6-	16.05-13.06
FZ 761	09:15	13:15	Daily	14.06-15.09
FZ 761	09:15	13:15	1-3-56-	17.09-27.10.

Full flight schedule Sarajevo-Dubai

Flight	Departing SJJ	Arriving DXB	Days	Valid from-to
FZ 762	14:15	21:50	Daily	26.03-30.04.
FZ 8606	18:55	02:30	Daily	25.03-08.04.
FZ 8606	08:10	15:45	Daily	15.06-15.09
FZ 8698	18:55	02:30	Daily	16.06-15.09.
FZ 762	14:15	21:50	1-3-56-	02.05-12.05.
FZ 762	14:15	21:50	--3—6-	16.05-13.06.
FZ 762	14:15	21:50	Daily	14.06-15.09
FZ 762	14:15	21:50	1-3-56-	17.09-27.10

                                        

Flights offered by the month (OW-One way/RT-Round trip)

Flights	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	Total
OW	38	12	52	93	93	53	16	357
RT	76	24	104	186	186	106	32	714

Seats offered by the month (OW-One way/RT-Round trip)

Seats	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	Total
OW	6.612	2.088	9.048	16.182	16.182	9.222	2.784	62.118
RT	13.224	4.176	18.096	32.364	32.364	18.444	5.568	124.236

Flydubai operates Dubai-Sarajevo flights using Boeing 737-800 aircraft offering 174 seats in business-economy class configuration.

Source: Flying Bosnian