✈ UPDATE:Sarajevo Airport Summer 2019 flight schedule

Destination map from Sarajevo during Summer 2019

• Flynas will introduce summer seasonal flights between Riyadh and Sarajevo. Flights will operate from June 2nd to August 30th, three times a week on Wed, Fri and Sun, with an Airbus 320 aircraft offering 164 seats (8 in business and 156 in economy class). 
• Eurowings is adding new service from Berlin-Tegel Airport to Sarajevo from June 03.2019, this route will be served twice a week, increasing to three per week from June 30 to September 01, on board of Germanwings Airbus 319 aircraft. During summer timetable Eurowings will operate a total of 106 flights in both directions, offering 15.264 seats.
• Aegean Airlines will introduce summer seasonal two weekly flights from Athens to Sarajevo. Flights will operate from June 13 to September 14 with Dash 8-Q400 aircraft (operated by Olympic Air), offering 78 seats. Total of 56 flights are scheduled offering 4.368 seats in both directions.
• Norwegian is reducing its service from Oslo to Sarajevo. This summer season Norwegian will operate a total of 31 flights in each direction (62 flights in total) offering 11.718 seats. Last year Norwegian operated a total of 70 flights between two cities, offering 13.230 seats in both directions. At first airline decided to discontinue the route altogether but after a plea from Bosnian Embassy in Norway the airline decided to restart service as summer seasonal from May 25 to October 26.
• Norwegian is introducing new one weekly summer seasonal service from Gothenburg to Sarajevo, airline’s second destination in Sweden after Stockholm Arlanda which is served on year-round basis. Gothenburg-Sarajevo flights will run from June 21 to August 9. Total of 8 flights in each direction are scheduled offering 3.024 seats on board of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
• Scandinavian Airlines is discontinuing its short-lived service from Copenhagen. Last year SAS operated a total of 28 flights between two cities, offering 4.384 seats in both directions.
• Eurowings revised its Cologne-Sarajevo schedule and added additional fourth weekly flight during July and August bringing the amount of flight and seats to the same as last year.
• Swiss International Airlines is reducing its service from Zurich to Sarajevo from three weekly flights to two weekly. Last year Swiss operated a total of 186 flights between two cities. This year Swiss will operate a total of 118 flights offering 14.750 seats, compared to last years 23.250, a decrease of 36,5% or 8.500 seats less.
• Turkish Airlines is increasing its service from Istanbul New Airport to Sarajevo from 18 weekly flights to 3 daily (21 weekly flights). Last year during Summer flight schedule Turkish Airlines operated a total of 1.100 flights between Istanbul and Sarajevo, the airline offered 181.500 seats. This year Turkish Airlines will operate a total of 1.268 flights offering 202.920 seats. Upcoming summer season will see flight increase of 15,2% or 168 flights more. Number of available seats will see increase of 11,8% or 21.420 seats more.
• Turkish Airlines will significantly increase charter flights from Sarajevo to Antalya. In Summer of 2019 the airline will offer up to eight weekly flights from Sarajevo to Antalya. Flights will operate daily from May 31 until September 21, twice daily on Thursdays. Total of 114 round trip flights are on offer with 37.620 available seats, representing an increase of 103% compared to the last year when the airline operated a total of 56 round trip flights, offering 18.480 seats in both directions.
• Air Arabia will increase its service from Sharjah in United Arab Emirates to Sarajevo from last year’s 210 flights to 286 flights this year, representing an increase of 36,1%. Number of available seats will increase from last years 34.020 seats to 46.332.
• Flydubai will decrees number of flights when compared to the same time of last year. Last year in Summer timetable Flydubai operated a total of 714 flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, offering 124.236 seats. In upcoming summer schedule Flydubai will operate a total of 664 flights, representing a decrease of 7,0%. Number of available seats decreased from last year’s 124.236 to this year’s 115.536
• Tunisair will introduce one weekly scheduled charter service from Monastir in Tunisia on board of its Boeing 737-600 with capacity to seat 126 passengers in all economy class configuration. Flights will operate on Mondays from June 10 to September 09. Total of 28 flights will be operated offering 3.528 seats in both directions.
• Tunisair Express will connect one more destination in Tunisia, Tunis will be connected with Sarajevo with one weekly charter flight operated by Tunisair Express CRJ-900 from June 18 to September 10. Total of 10 round-trip flights are scheduled offering 880 seats in each direction (1.760 seats in total)
• FlyBosnia destinations coming soon: London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA), Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO), Riyadh Airport (RUH), Kuwait City Airport (KWI), Bahrain Int. Airport (BAH).

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Eurowings increases Berlin-Sarajevo service from June

Eurowings is increasing Berlin Tegel (TXL) – Sarajevo service, with the addition of 3^rd weekly flight. The new flight will operate on Sundays, effective June 30. 2019. Eurowings announced Berlin Tegel -Sarajevo flights last week, initially with two weekly flights.

Berlin Tegel (TXL) – Sarajevo flight schedule

In peak summer months Eurowings will offer 12 weekly flights from Germany to Bosnia and Herzegovina:

• Four weekly flights Cologne - Sarajevo
• Three weekly flights Berlin – Sarajevo
• Two weekly flights Stuttgart – Sarajevo
• Two weekly flights Stuttgart – Mostar
• One weekly flight Dusseldorf – Mostar

All flights will operate with Airbus 319/320 aircraft.

Previously reported, Eurowings adds Berlin Tegel – Sarajevoflights from June

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈FlyBosnia preliminary schedule for new routes

FlyBosnia filed preliminary schedule for new routes, which would see the airline operating flights from Sarajevo to following destination in Europe: London Gatwick Airport (LGW), Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA) and Rome–Fiumicino International Airport (FCO). Proposed services should start from June.

In the Gulf region the airline is preparing to start flights to three destination: Riyadh (RUH), Kuwait City (KWI) and Manama (BAH) in Bahrain. 

In Bahrain the airline has signed a cooperation agreement with Al-Nasr Travel and Tourism, which will become an exclusive agent for the carrier in Bahrain.

The company's deputy director Syed Taleb Al-Darazi said his company would be an exclusive agent for the Bosnian company in Bahrain, where direct flights from Manama (Bahrain International Airport) to Sarajevo would be conducted.

He stressed that it is the first time that direct flights are conducted on this line, expected to start in June by two flights a week and the number will rise in the future.

Source: FlyBosnia

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina air traffic report for FEB-19

February 2019 air traffic report  for all four international airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

SARAJEVO
TUZLA
BANJA LUKA
MOSTAR

Source: Flying Bosnian and BHDCA

✈Emirates recruitment events in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Emirates is hosting two crew recruitment events in Bosnia and Herzegovina in coming weeks

-Sarajevo (30.03.2019. Hotel Europe)
-Mostar (21.04.2019. Hotel Mostar)

Follow this link for detailed info

Source: Emirates.com

✈Eurowings adds Berlin Tegel – Sarajevo flights from June

Eurowings from June 2019 is adding new service from Berlin, with the offering of Berlin Tegel – Sarajevo route. From 03JUN19, this route will be served twice a week, on board germanwings Airbus A319 aircraft.

EW8492 TXL1245 – 1440SJJ 319 15
EW8493 SJJ1600 – 1755TXL 319 15


Source: Routes Online

✈Turkish Airlines move to Istanbul New Airport !

All scheduled flights at Ataturk Airport will end on April 6, 2019 at 02:00, and any previously planned flights will continue from 14:00 on wards from Istanbul Airport on the same day.

Turkish Airlines will operate three daily flights between Istanbul New Airport and Sarajevo.

Source: Turkish Airlines

✈Interview with FlyBosnia CEO Chris Gabriel

 FlyBosnia CEO Chris Gabriel interview with allplane

The Balkans have proven to be a challenging region for airlines. Most, if not all, the airlines that emerged in the territory of the former Yugoslavia have historically been quite financially fragile.

In the case of Bosnia and Hercegovina, the rather small (1 aircraft) B&H Airlines closed shop in 2015, leaving the country with no national flag carrier.

This precedent has not deterred Saudi investment group Al Shiddi from investing in the setup of a brand new airline in Bosnia and Herzegovina, FlyBosnia. We spoke with FlyBosnia’s CEO’s, Australian Chris Gabriel, that gave us some insights about this new airline project that is just taking off at heart of the Balkans.In Mr. Gabriel’s words, FlyBosnia aims to cover a latent demand for direct flights to and from Bosnia that is not satisfactorily served. 

“It is a niche airline designed to provide affordable, direct flights to key destinations where we know there is demand” he explained.

FlyBosnia has already received its first aircraft, an Airbus A319, with three more on the way (the second A319 is expected this April). They have a two-class configuration, but, he is quick to insist “it is a Euro business class, the seats are the same, we can just adapt very quickly, in response to demand” elaborates Mr. Gabriel, before explaining that ancillaries play also a key role in the commercial strategy.

In any case, FlyBosnia has already been testing the waters, with the launch of some charter flights between Sarajevo and the Middle East.

“These have obtained very satisfactory load factors, consistently above 85%, so this decided us to launch scheduled operations”  highlighted Mr. Gabriel.

These regular routes will be, for a start, London (FlyBosnia is considering both Gatwick and Luton airports, in part to exploit potential links to other carriers) and Frankfurt in Europe and  Riyadh, Jeddah, Bahrain and Kuwait in the Middle East. In addition to these, FlyBosnia is looking at other points in Italy, Spain and Russia as the next steps in the route development front.

FlyBosnia is not only betting on the growing popularity of Bosnia as an emerging tourist destination in Europe, but expects to have a major contribution to the consolidation of this upward trend. Although on a different league than its neighbour, tourism-superpower Croatia, the last few years Bosnia and Hercegovina has been reporting double digit growth in the number of tourist arrivals.

Mr. Gabriel hopes that once it is operating at full capacity, FlyBosnia will play a major role in doubling the number of passengers at Sarajevo International Airport, from the current million to two million.

In this regard, FlyBosnia expects to leverage synergies with its Saudi investors, that, in addition to managing hotels and travel management businesses in their home country, are already active players in the Bosnian economy, where it owns a number of hotels and commercial real estate projects.

If religious diversity is one of the defining features of Bosnia as a country, pilgrimages are a segment of the travel market that FlyBosnia is paying special attention to. This includes both traffic to Bosnia, that has Christian pilgrimage places such as Medjugorje, and Bosnian muslims flying to the Arabian Peninsula.

And there is also, of course, the Bosnian diaspora.

And not just when it comes to passengers, Mr. Gabriel likes to highlight how many aviation professionals of Bosnian origin have expressed their interest in joining the FlyBosnia project.

High expectations, indeed, for an airline that aims to put back Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina on Europe’s tourist map. Last year Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded 1,2 million foreign tourist visitors.  

Source: allplane

✈Banja Luka Airport Summer 2019 flight schedule

Destination map from Banja Luka during Summer 2019

Banja Luka International Airport will see its busiest summer in history. At the beginning of the summer timetable Ryanair will introduce new destination to the city, Berlin Schönefeld Airport will be operated twice weekly beginning April 3^rd, this is the third destination for Ryanair from Banja Luka. 

Air Serbia will maintain five weekly flights to Belgrade using ATR-72 aircraft. Air Serbia will also operate charter flights to Antalya and Athens. Total of nine round trip charter flights are scheduled for each destination. For the first time this summer Athens will be connected with two airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo with regular scheduled flights with Aegean Airlines and Banja Luka with charter flights with Air Serbia for a local tour operator. Banja Luka airport is expecting to handle 120.000 passengers. According to Banja Luka city officials establishment of flights to Moscow, Russia are possible this summer.

New destinations from Ryanair are expected to be announced at the end of the summer as well.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Mostar Airport Summer 2019 flight schedule

Destinations map from Mostar during Summer 2019

In upcoming summer season Mostar Airport won’t see any major changes when compared to the summer of the last year. Only change is Eurowings upgrade of aircraft on its both routes to the city (from Dusseldorf and Stuttgart) , from Dash8-400- with 76 seats to Airbus 319 with 144 seats. Croatia Airlines will maintain two weekly flights to Zagreb. Newcomer to the airport this year is FlyBosnia with charter flights to Italy, schedule to Italian routes is not published yet.

Source:Flying Bosnian

✈EASA suspends all Boeing 737 Max operations in Europe

Following the tragic accident of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is taking every step necessary to ensure the safety of passengers. 

As a precautionary measure, EASA has published today an Airworthiness Directive, effective as of 19:00 UTC, suspending all flight operations of all Boeing Model 737-8 MAX and 737-9 MAX aeroplanes in Europe. In addition EASA has published a Safety Directive, effective as of 19:00 UTC, suspending all commercial flights performed by third-country operators into, within or out of the EU of the above mentioned models.

The accident investigation is led by the Ethiopian Authorities with the support of the National Transportation Safety Board, as the aircraft was designed and built in the United States. EASA has offered their assistance in supporting the accident investigation.

EASA is continuously analysing the data as it becomes available. The accident investigation is currently ongoing, and it is too early to draw any conclusions as to the cause of the accident.

Source :European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

✈Tuzla Airport Summer 2019 flight schedule

Destination map from Tuzla during Summer 2019

Tuzla International Airport will not see any changes in upcoming Summer Timetable of flights, when compared to the last summer season. Wizz Air will bring back its four routes that were suspended at the beginning of winter timetable in November. Four seasonal routes being reintroduced are: Billund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Stockholm-Skavsta and Växjö.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport Summer 2019 flight schedule

Destination map from Sarajevo during Summer 2019

Summer schedule flights are until the end of October 2019.

• Flynas will introduce summer sesonal flights between Riyadh and Sarajevo. Flights will operate from June 2nd to August 30th, three times a week on Wed, Fri and Sun, with an Airbus 320 aircraft offering 164 seats (8 in business and 156 in economy class).
• Aegean Airlines will introduce summer seasonal two weekly flights from Athens to Sarajevo. Flights will operate from June 13 to September 14 with Dash 8-Q400 aircraft (operated by Olympic Air), offering 78 seats. Total of 56 flights are scheduled offering 4.368 seats in both directions.
• Norwegian is reducing its service from Oslo to Sarajevo. This summer season Norwegian will operate a total of 31 flights in each direction (62 flights in total) offering 11.718 seats. Last year Norwegian operated a total of 70 flights between two cities, offering 13.230 seats in both directions. At first airline decided to discontinue the route altogether but after a plea from Bosnian Embassy in Norway the airline decided to restart service as summer seasonal from May 25 to October 26.
• Norwegian is introducing new one weekly summer seasonal service from Gothenburg to Sarajevo, airline’s second destination in Sweden after Stockholm Arlanda which is served on year-round basis. Gothenburg-Sarajevo flights will run from June 21 to August 9. Total of 8 flights in each direction are scheduled offering 3.024 seats on board of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
• Scandinavian Airlines is discontinuing its short-lived service from Copenhagen. Last year SAS operated a total of 28 flights between two cities, offering 4.384 seats in both directions.
• Eurowings revised its Cologne-Sarajevo schedule and added additional fourth weekly flight during July and August bringing the amount of flight and seats to the same as last year.
• Swiss International Airlines is reducing its service from Zurich to Sarajevo from three weekly flights to two weekly. Last year Swiss operated a total of 186 flights between two cities. This year Swiss will operate a total of 118 flights offering 14.750 seats, compared to last years 23.250, a decrease of 36,5% or 8.500 seats less.
• Turkish Airlines is increasing its service from Istanbul New Airport to Sarajevo from 18 weekly flights to 3 daily (21 weekly flights). Last year during Summer flight schedule Turkish Airlines operated a total of 1.100 flights between Istanbul and Sarajevo, the airline offered 181.500 seats. This year Turkish Airlines will operate a total of 1.268 flights offering 202.920 seats. Upcoming summer season will see flight increase of 15,2% or 168 flights more. Number of available seats will see increase of 11,8% or 21.420 seats more.
• Turkish Airlines will significantly increase charter flights from Sarajevo to Antalya. In Summer of 2019 the airline will offer up to eight weekly flights from Sarajevo to Antalya. Flights will operate daily from May 31 until September 21, twice daily on Thursdays. Total of 114 round trip flights are on offer with 37.620 available seats, representing an increase of 103% compared to the last year when the airline operated a total of 56 round trip flights, offering 18.480 seats in both directions.
• Air Arabia will increase its service from Sharjah in United Arab Emirates to Sarajevo from last year’s 210 flights to 286 flights this year, representing an increase of 36,1%. Number of available seats will increase from last years 34.020 seats to 46.332.
• Flydubai will decrees number of flights when compared to the same time of last year. Last year in Summer timetable Flydubai operated a total of 714 flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, offering 124.236 seats. In upcoming summer schedule Flydubai will operate a total of 664 flights, representing a decrease of 7,0%. Number of available seats decreased from last year’s 124.236 to this year’s 115.536
• Tunisair will introduce one weekly scheduled charter service from Monastir in Tunisia on board of its Boeing 737-600 with capacity to seat 126 passengers in all economy class configuration. Flights will operate on Mondays from June 10 to September 09. Total of 28 flights will be operated offering 3.528 seats in both directions.
• Tunisair Express will connect one more destination in Tunisia, Tunis will be connected with Sarajevo with one weekly charter flight operated by Tunisair Express CRJ-900 from June 18 to September 10. Total of 10 round-trip flights are scheduled offering 880 seats in each direction (1.760 seats in total)

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany air traffic report

Germany is one of the most important trade partners of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the world. Around 400.000 citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina live and work in Germany. Many German companies are present and operate on Bosnian market. With Bosnia and Herzegovina aligning its laws and regulations to the ones of European Union finding skilled and educated workforce is something German companies find favorable in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Routes between airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany

German companies are hiring workforce from Bosnia and Herzegovina for employment in Germany in many fields but particularly in medical field (all professions), caregivers, building and road constructions, hospitality etc.…

Due to major flow of capital and people all major German cities are connected with flights to airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina has four international airports and all four have flights to Germany. Majority of flights are carried out from Sarajevo and Tuzla. Mostar is connected to Germany with summer seasonal flights, while Banja Luka airport just started developing its route network, thanks to the deal it made with Europe’s largest airline Ryanair. Ryanair started flights from Memmingen in October of last year,  with second destination in Germany scheduled to start in April, Berlin Schönefeld Airport will be served twice weekly. 

Passenger share by the airport

New-established Bosnian airline FlyBosnia is about to schedule its service to Germany as well, the airline said is looking at securing landing slots at Frankfurt International Airport, focusing mostly on transfer passengers from Sarajevo to the USA and Canada, but other cities are in plans too. Last year 423.653 passengers traveled between two countries, a record number of air travelers representing 27% of all air passengers traveled to and from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tuzla Airport had largest passengers share with 261.809 passengers,  followed with Sarajevo with 144.960, Mostar 12.223 and Banja Luka 4.661. This number is expected to go well over 500.000 this year.

Passenger share by the airline

Number of passenger on routes operated between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany:

Number of passenger on routes operated between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany (reported by departing airport in Germany):

Monthly Statistic data for all flights from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Germany in 2018 (including flights for Tuzla-Nuremberg and Sarajevo-Stuttgart for 2017)

Source: Flying Bosnian and Deutsche Statistische Bundesamt