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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

✈ Wizz Air, Budapest-Sarajevo flights established!



Wizz Air has established its first route to Sarajevo Int. Airport. Budapest is the first destination for Wizz Air from Sarajevo, which will be served with two weekly flights on Mondays and Fridays. After a short flight of 48 minutes , an Airbus 320  aircraft has landed at Sarajevo airport at 08:40 with, flight W62237 with 144 passengers onboard. 64 passengers boarded flight back to Budapest. Wizz Air is rapidly expanding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This year alone the airline has introduced five new routes from its baze at Tuzla International Airport. Wizz Air has plans to introduce more flights from Sarajevo in the near future, and has expressed interest in opening its second base in Bosnia and Herzegovina at Sarajevo International Airport. This year, Wizz Air is offering around 700.000 seats on its flights from and to Bosnia and Herzegovina, positioning itself as a number one airline in the country in terms of the capacity and destinations served. Total of 17 destinations across Europe are offered from Tuzla and Sarajevo (16 destinations from Tuzla  and one destination from Sarajevo). Wizz Air has great potential to establish flights from Sarajevo to: Frankfurt, Milan, Rome, Copenhagen, Warsaw (none of these destinations are served from Tuzla) and others.

Table below is showing current bookings for BUD-SJJ-BUD flights:


Budapest-Sarajevo
Sarajevo-Budapest
Total
Passengers
*CLF %
05/04/2017
145
64
209
58,05%
09/04/2017
124
88
212
58,88%
10/04/2017
89
108
197
54,72%
14/04/2017
155
118
273
75,83%
17/04/2017
112
143
255
70,83%
21/04/2017
112
121
233
64,72%
24/04/2017
100
122
222
61,66%
28/04/2017
108
109
217
60.27%
Total booked passengers
944
873
1.818
63,12%
Total available 
seats
1.440
1.440
2.880

*CLF (Cabin Load Factor)

Photos from inaugural flight (April 5, 2017)












                              Photos by Klix.ba and Sarajevo Airport


Source: Flying Bosnian

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