✈ 900.000 passengers for Sarajevo Airport

Sarajevo International Airport has welcomed its 900,000 passengers of the year today, representing a record number of passengers in one calendar year. Dina Ceric is recorded as 900.000^th passenger, traveling on Qatar Airways flight to Doha. She was presented with gift voucher from Qatar Airways for any destination of her choice within Qatar Airways network. In last 12 months Sarajevo Airport has added additional 100.000 passengers (last year 800.000th passenger was recorded on December 05.), representing a growth of 14%. The trend of passenger growth is expected to continue in 2018. 

  

Source:Sarajevo International Airport

✈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

✈Pegasus Airlines is increasing Istanbul-Sarajevo flights

Pegasus Airlines is increasing Istanbul (SAW) - Sarajevo flights from six weekly flights to daily from January 03 to February 14.2018. Frequency increase is coming after Atlas Global Airlines failed to secure enough passengers for year-round flights between Istanbul and Sarajevo and decided to stop winter flights as of today. Atlas Global will resume Istanbul (IST) -Sarajevo flights on March 27^th, as summer seasonal. Turkish Airlines also increased its service from Istanbul Ataturk Airport to Sarajevo from last year 10 weekly flights to 11 weekly this winter season.

Pegasus Airlines Istanbul (SAW)- Sarajevo flight schedule

Source: Pegasus Airlines

✈Flydubai additional flights to Sarajevo

Due to increased demand and very good bookings Flydubai will increase its flights from Dubai to Sarajevo for Christmas and New Year’s holidays by adding one more weekly flight from December 21 to January 4 for a total of five weekly frequencies. 

Additional flights will operate on Thursdays with following schedule

FZ8951	Dubai (DXB)-Sarajevo(SJJ)	13:00-16:20	Boeing 737-800
FZ8952	Sarajevo (SJJ)-Dubai (DXB)	17:20-01:55 (next day)	Boeing 737-800

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Tender for Bihac Airport design

Public Enterprise Bihac Airport has announced a competition for the design of the "Bihac Airport" at the location of Bihac-Golubici. The complex of airport buildings will consist of: control tower, terminal, fire department, maintenance service, petrol station, garage, hangars and workshops.

The terminal building will consist of: basement, ground floor and first floor, departure area with one check in counter to accommodate 120 people. Commercial area of the airport will include a cafeteria with a kitchen, a cafe bar and the restrooms. On the first floor, there will be airport management offices, VIP lounge, crew room and another cafe bar.

 The airport will have a runway of 2.200 meters long, 45 meters wide with ICAO standard CAT II landing system and a minimum of 1.000-meter-long parallel taxiway. Bihac Airport will be built on an area of ​​200.000 square meters.

Tender is open to ordinary citizens and companies who have education in the field of architecture, urban development and fine arts. The deadline for the application is until November 30 at 2 pm, and the public opening of the envelopes will take place on December 18th.

Bihac Airport location within Bosnia and Herzegovina

The decision of the commission will be awarded the prizes: for the first place 3.000 BAM, for the second place 2.000 BAM and for the third place 1.000 BAM.

According to earlier studies, the construction of the airport will cost about 26 million BAM. The airport should meet the needs of establishing charter tourist flights and commercial low-cost airline flights.

Full tender documentations is available at City of Bihac website www.bihac.org or by following this link.

                                                  Bihac Airport location within Europe

Source: City of Bihac and Flying Bosnian