✈Sarajevo Airport opens Fast lane

Sarajevo Airport opened its first fast lane yesterday. Preferential access at the checkpoint allows you to pass through security quickly and speeds up procedures before boarding. 

Fast lane is available for:

-Holders of associated airline first and business class tickets and club cards

-VIP passengers

-EUFOR and NATO passengers

Eligible passengers may proceed to Fast lane after check in when the special barcode will be issued for Fast lane access.

	Photos by Sarajevo Airport

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA

✈Flydubai expands Sarajevo flights in S18!

Flydubai in summer 2018 season is expanding service to Sarajevo, as the airline introduces daily Dubai-Sarajevo flights from 26. March 2018. Dilly flights will be operated in codeshare with Emirates. During peak summer season Flydubai will operate double daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Tuzla airport is finishing a terminal for fuel storage

Besides the expansion and reconstruction of the existing capacities of  Tuzla International Airport, another project is being realized. A customs terminal for storage of airplane fuel, for which the airport got a license for supplying airlines and airplanes with Jet A1 fuel, is being built.

That is the centerpiece of the activities that the management of the airport, alongside the Government of the Tuzla Canton, began two years ago.

The customs terminal is necessary since the number of operations and the fuel consumption are increased. The construction of the terminal will cost the airport 1 million BAM and will place the airport among those that are supplying airline companies with cheap fuel. The final phase will cost 338,000 BAM.  Tuzla Airport is financing the project from its own funds.

Review and control of the quality of the fuel will be conducted by the newly built laboratory at Tuzla International airport. All ecological norms set by the law will be followed and the fuel tanks will be placed on rubber surfaces.

The author of the project is the Institute for the Protection of Ecology and Education d.o.o Tuzla.

Source: Akta.ba

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina sees air traffic growth of 20% in the first half of 2017!

Demand for air travel in Bosnia and Herzegovina is growing strong year after year. With Wizz Air adding second aircraft to its Tuzla base and five new airlines starting operations to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina will record its busiest year in air travel. Second half of the year will show even larger improvement due to new destinations being introduced in second half of the year and increased number of seasonal and charter flights. In the first half of the year a total of 636.753 passengers traveled through four international airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing an increase of 20,67% over same period of last year. Tuzla International airport recorded largest increase of 60,00% !

Total passengers, first half of 2017

Airport	1H 2016	1H 2017	Change
Sarajevo	357.465	383.983	+7,41%
Tuzla	142.021	226.462	+59,45
Mostar	18.486	16.709	-9,61%
Banja Luka	9.700	9.599	-1,04%
Total B&H	527.672	636.753	+20,67

B&H market share in the first half of 2017

Airport	1H 2017	Change
Sarajevo	383.983	60,30%
Tuzla	226.462	35,56%
Mostar	16.709	2,62%
Banja Luka	9.599	1,50%
Total B&H	636.753

In the last seven years traffic, has increased by 108,96%

Year	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
PAX	1225676	1129749	956870	804927	668728	649676	586537
Change	+8,49	+18,06	+8,50	+18,06	+18,87	+20,36	+2,96

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Record day for Sarajevo Airport!

Sarajevo International Airport will record today its busiest day year to date. Total of 60 air operations will be handled at the airport today: 52 regular and charter flights and 6 cargo and GA flights. Total number of available seats on all flights today is around 8.000. The airport should record around 7.000 passengers using the airport in 24 hours’ period.

ARRIVALS	DEPARTURES

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina-Sweden half yearly air traffic report

Map by Great Circle Mapper

Traffic data for air travel between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sweden for the first six months of 2017.

Sweden is third largest market for air travel from/to Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the first half of the year all routes to/from Sweden to Bosnia-Herzegovina have recorded increase in passengers. Five destinations in Sweden are served from Sarajevo and Tuzla. At the beginning of the year Wizz Air has converted its summer  seasonal service from Tuzla to Stockholm Skavsta Airport to year-round due to increased demand for the flights. In March of this year Wizz Air has added  its fourth destination in Sweden, Tuzla-Vaxjo is served with two weekly flights. Tuzla- Malmo flights have increased this summer from 4 to 5 weekly and Tuzla-Goeteborg from 3 to 4 weekly. Increased frequencies are scheduled for peak summer months only.  

Table bellow is showing data for passengers traveled between two countries on all routes. Data for Stockholm Skavsta and Vaxjo Airports is incomplete and will be updated (Stockholm Skavsta route was reintroduced as year-round on 26.03.2017, no flights were operated during January-March). Tuzla-Vaxjo flights started 28.03.2017. 

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sweden 2017 air traffic report

(January-June)

		Jan-Mar	Apr-Jun	Total PAX 1H 2017	Total PAX 1H 2016	Change %
Sarajevo (SJJ)	Stockholm (ARN)	4.493	7.692	12.185	10.582	+15,14%
Tuzla (TZL)	Goteborg (GOT)	8.823	13.837	22.660	21.017	+7,81%
Tuzla (TZL)	Malmo (MMX)	9.146	15.633	24.779	19.311	+28,31%
Tuzla (TZL)	Stockholm (NYO)	Info NA	Info NA	Info NA	12.365
Tuzla (TZL)	Vaxjo (VXO)	Info NA	Info NA	Info NA	No flights
		22.462	37.162	59.624	63.275

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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sweden 2016 air traffic report

		Jan-Mar	Apr-Jun	Jul-Sep	Oct-Dec	Total
Sarajevo (SJJ)	Stockholm (ARN)	3.978	6.604	8.243	4.248	23.073
Tuzla (TZL)	Goteborg (GOT)	8.617	12.400	12.419	9.555	42.991
Tuzla (TZL)	Malmo (MMX)	7.668	11.643	13.531	11.711	44.553
Tuzla (TZL)	Stockholm (NYO)	5.101	7.264	7.845	2.024	22.234
		25.364	37.911	42.038	27.538	132.851

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2017 (Jan-Jun)	2016
2015

Source: Flying Bosnian