✈Analysis of summer timetable for Sarajevo Int. Airport

This year Sarajevo Airport will break all-time record in all areas of operations. As Bosnia and Herzegovina is positioning its self on tourist map, demand for air travel to Bosnian main airport is getting stronger every year. Currently Bosnia and Herzegovina see large number of tourist visiting the country from May to October, even though Bosnia and Herzegovina has huge potential for winter tourism as well. Sarajevo Airport is following the demand with planed airport expansion, due to start in October of this year. After the necessary expansion, Sarajevo Airport will be able to handle 2 million passengers per year. High seasonality in flights is still main issue for the airport, during summer months there are twice as many flights and passengers compared to the winter months.

Tables bellow are showing available seats and airline share at Sarajevo Airport from April 1^st to October 31^st 2017.

Airline	Destinations	Seats offered	SJJ Share
Adria Airways	Ljubljana	35.948	3,8%
Air Arabia	Sharjah	38.556	4,1%
Air Serbia	Belgrade	28.248	3,0%
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	127.380	13,8%
Atlas Global	Istanbul IST	25.584	2,7%
Croatia Airlines	Zagreb	60.344	6,5%
Eurowings	Cologne, Stuttgart	42.048	4,4%
Flydubai	Dubai DBX	80.388	8,5%
Lufthansa	Munich	71.904	7,7%
Nesma Airlines	Riyadh	18.000	1,9%
Norwegian Air	Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo	40.824	4,3%
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul SAW	103.950	11,3%
Swiss Air	Zurich	18.236	1,9%
TUIfly Belgium	Charleroi	17.760	1,8%
Tailwind Airlines	Antalya	7.728	0,8%
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul IST	188.850	20,3%
Wataniya Airways	Kuwait City	8.448	0,9%
Wizz Air	Budapest	21.600	2,3%
		935.796

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Top five destinations from Tuzla in 2016

Wizz Air destination map from Tuzla

Wizz Air top five routes from Tuzla International Airport in 2016 are: Dortmund, Malmo, Gothenburg, Basel and Frankfurt Hahn. Data is missing for Eindhoven Airport, according to the number of operated flights, number of passengers should be very similar to Frankfurt Hahn.   

Tuzla International Airport passenger numbers by destination in 2016:

	Destination/Airport	Passengers  2016	Passengers 2015	Change from 2015
1.	Dortmund (DTM)	49.319	43.502	+13,37%
2.	Malmo (MMX	44.553	37.341	+19,31%
3.	Gothenburg (GOT)	42.991	42.875	+0,27%
4.	Basel (BSL)	38.388	36.727	+4,52%
5.	Frankfurt Hahn (HHN)	33.000 *
	Memmingen (FMM)	31.654
	London Luton (LTN)	3.005
	Eindhoven (EIN)
	Billund (BLL)	Started 31.10.16.
	Berlin Schoenefeld (SXF)	Started 17.12.16.
	Stockholm Skavsta (NYO)	Restarted in 2017.
	Bratislava (BTS)	Started in 2017.
	Cologne (CGN)	Started in 2017.
	Friedrichshafen (FDH)	Started in 2017.
	Nuremberg (NUE)	Started in 2017.
	Vaxjo (VXO)	Started in 2017.

 * Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN) published data from January to September of 2016 (24.279 passengers are recorded). Estimated year end number is around 33.000. Data for Tuzla-Frankfurt Hahn will be updated as results get published.

Source:Flying Bosnian and EUROSTAT

✈Sarajevo Airport: Important announcement

Dear Passengers, 

Considering the significant increase in aircraft and passenger traffic in the Summer months, and in order to avoid delays and overcrowding, passengers traveling with following airlines are kindly requested to  arrive at check-in counters at least three hours prior to the scheduled departure: Air Arabia, Wataniya Airways, Nesma Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, and Flydubai. 

Photo of departure hall of Sarajevo Airport. Daily sight at the airport during summer months.

Thank you for your understanding, Sarajevo International Airport!

✈Self-check-in kiosks at Sarajevo Airport

Sarajevo International Airport has installed two self-check-in kiosks. The kiosks are available for use only for passengers traveling with carry on (hand luggage) for following airlines: Adria Airways, Air Serbia, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Eurowings (Germanwings), Lufthansa, Pegasus Airlines, Swiss Air and Turkish Airlines.

Source: Sarajevo Int. Airport

✈ Eurowings has cancelled plans to launch flights from Dusseldorf to Sarajevo

Eurowings has decided to cancel planed service from Dusseldorf to Sarajevo. Flights were scheduled to begin on November 2, with two weekly rotations between two cities. In the past Eurowings failed to secure enough passengers to keep Berlin-Sarajevo flights profitable. Flights from Berlin operated by the airline for nine months only. At this moment is hard to say what is the main reason for canceling the flights, since tickets were on sale for less than a month. It is rumored that Eurowings will launch flights to Mostar Airport instead, since the local government will subsidize the flights. Earlier this month Mostar Airport has announced beginning of flights to Germany by the end of October. Eurowings operates year-round flights to Sarajevo from Cologne and Stuttgart. Cologne is operated three times per week (four weekly in summer) while Stuttgart is operated only once per week (twice weekly in summer). Main competitor to Eurowings on Bosnian market is Wizz Air. Wizz Air is flying from Tuzla to seven destinations in Germany. Most popular German route from Tuzla is Dortmund with 49.319 passengers in 2016, followed by Frankfurt Hahn  and Memmingen. Since December of last year Wizz Air added flights from Tuzla to: Berlin, Cologne, Friedrichshafen and Nuremberg.       

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Airlines are increasing Sarajevo operations!

Due to the high demand for flights to Sarajevo, many airlines are adding additional flights and increasing capacity during summer period. Turkish Airlines on most of its flights is using largest narrow-body jet in its fleet, Airbus 321 with 180 seats. Newcomer to Sarajevo Airport Wataniya Airways is recording great bookings on its service from Kuwait City. The airline is adding additional flights on every Tuesday from July 25 to September 05^th. Air Arabia will operate additional flights to Sharjah, up to two daily flights on selected days. This summer charter flights to Antalya are seeing strong demand too, during month of August Sarajevo will be connected to Antalya with 4 weekly flights by Turkish Airlines and 2 weekly flights by Tailwind Airlines and one weekly by Corendon Airlines, for a total of seven weekly flights to Turkish resort city. Hajj pilgrimage charters from Sarajevo to Medina are planned for August 17, 18, 19 and 20^th. Returning flights are from Jeddah to Sarajevo, scheduled for September 07, 08, 09 and 10^th. All these additional flights will add large number of passengers for Sarajevo Airport in upcoming months. Record number of passengers are projected for July with 125.000 passengers, August 127.000 passengers and September 105.000 passengers. Sarajevo Airport will record best year since opening its doors on 2^nd of June 1969, it is estimated that airport will end this year with 910.000 passengers. One million mark in one year should be reached in 2018.  

Turkish Airlines additional flights

TK 3900/3901	Istanbul (IST)	04.08.2017. Friday
TK 3901/3902	Istanbul (IST)	06.08.2017. Sunday
TK 3904/3905	Istanbul (IST)	13.08.2017. Sunday
TK 3906/3907	Istanbul (IST)	20.08.2017. Sunday
TK 3900/3901	Istanbul (IST)	30.08.2017.Wednesday
TK 3900/3901	Istanbul (IST)	02.09.2017. Saturday

Air Arabia additional flights

G9 317/318	Sharjah (SHJ)	28.07.2017. Friday
G9 317/318	Sharjah (SHJ)	05.08.2017. Saturday
G9 317/318	Sharjah (SHJ)	09.08.2017. Wednesday

Wataniya Airways additional flights

Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	25.07. 2017.Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	26.07. 2017.Wednesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	01.08.2017. Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	08.08.2017. Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	15.08.2017. Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	22.08.2017. Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	29.08.2017. Tuesday
Q9 805/806	Kuwait City (KWI)	05.09.2017. Tuesday

Source: Flying Bosnian