Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Saturday, December 12, 2020
✈ Attractive packages for tourists from the UA Emirates
Flydubai Boeing 737-800 landing at Sarajevo International Airport
Tourist
community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and travel
agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive
packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their
wishes and interests.
This
has been arranged in a joint meeting held in Sarajevo, which was attended by
the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United Arab Emirates Šerif
Mujkanović, representatives of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo and
the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs as well as representatives of Sarajevo
International Airport and the travel agency Bosnia Travel.
At
this point of the pandemic, citizens of the United Arab Emirates have visa-free regime, without
any additional requirements, what made the participants of the meeting that an
additional attention should be directed towards the tourists from the UAE in
the upcoming period.
It
has been agreed, that the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo in
cooperation with the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina would
organize the arrival of leading tour operators, bloggers and representatives of
media from the United Arab Emirates in Sarajevo. The ambassador Mujkanović will provide help in
relation to discussions with tour operators and bloggers from the UAE and he will
arrange specific cooperation activities between them and the Tourist Community
of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
domestic travel agencies.
According
to the arrangement, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association
of Entrepreneurs, and the travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers
and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab
Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.
As
of January 1st 2021, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo will open
tourist info center at Sarajevo International Airport and set conditions so
that every guest – tourist is adequately informed on tourist potentials of the
Canton Sarajevo, destinations and other information in relation to the pleasant
stay in Sarajevo and the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo International Airport will, in
accordance with its possibilities and authorizations, create all necessary
requirements regarding the reception and the flow of the UAE tourists at the
airport.
Based
upon the statistical data of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the
tourists from the UAE visited the Canton Sarajevo quite significantly during
the period of 2019 and 2020. There were more than 5.000 tourists from the UAE
in 2020 for a period of ten months, with 25.000 overnight stays. The number of
arrivals exceeded a number of 25.000 in 2019, with more than 90.000 overnight
stays.
Currently Flydubai is offering four weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. From March 1st 2021 Flydubai will offer daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, increasing to two daily flights from the beginning of May 2021.
Source:
Sarajevo International Airport
Friday, December 11, 2020
✈Sarajevo Airport signed transnational cooperation project for blind and partially sighted passengers
DANOVA – Innovative transportation services for blind and partially sighted passengers in Danube Region is a transnational cooperation project co-funded by Interreg Danube Transnational Program, one of the programs of the European Territorial Cooperation objective funded by the European Union. The aim of DANOVA project is to improve the accessibility of airports, ports, trains and bus station to blind and partially sighted people by developing a set of new services and competences in order to allow them to have a full access to all transportation information and services. The project with duration of 30 months (01 July 2020 – 31 December 2022) and a total budget of 2.192.546,66 Euro brings together partners from 9 different countries motivated to work together so as to make transportation facilities more accessible.
DANOVA Participating Countries
In Europe, there are
over 30 million of blind and partially sighted people who cannot travel
independently as more than 96% of European transport system, especially in
Danube Region, is still not totally accessible to people with visual
impairments. Many blind and partially sighted passengers find it extremely
difficult, and in some cases even impossible, to use conventional transportation
such as airplanes, railways or urban public transportation. Reasons for this
are various: blind and partially sighted passengers do not have equal access to
up-to-date visual or written information regarding transportation; personnel is
often not trained to support and adequately communicate with blind and
partially sighted passengers; there is a lack of adequately accessible
infrastructure; differences among national legislations about accessibility
exist from country to county etc. In all Danube Region, there is an increasing
demand from organizations working and representing blind and partially sighted
people to set up new services which will make the environment of transport
facilities more inclusive and accessible, and where the blind passengers will
be treated as equals.
DANOVA’s goal is to meet
this need by producing several concrete and tangible outputs through an
integrative and transnational approach:
- International investigation on best solutions to be transferred in Danube Region;
- Capitalisation Strategy to support decision makers to transfer the identified solutions in an efficient way;
- Involvement of stakeholders in the design process of a new transnational concept of a totally accessible transportation system to blind and partially sighted passengers in Danube Region;
- Testing of innovative solutions in involved territories;
- Equipping the personnel on how to use new services and how to adequately assist and communicate with blind passengers.
The consortium of 14 partners is led by Dubrovnik Airport (Croatia). The consortium is well-balanced in terms of involvement of airports, ports, research institutions, local authorities and associations representing blind people: Airport Bratislava, Budapest Airport, Centre for Budapest Transport, University of Maribor, Bulgarian Association for Transfer and Technology Innovation, Croatian Blind Union, Austrian Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted, Dubrovnik Port Authority, Municipality of Maribor, Airports of Montenegro, Port of Kotor, Sarajevo International Airport, Moldova Association of the Blind. The project involves also 4 associated partners: Slovak Blind and Partially Sighted Union, Ljubljana Airport, Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Moldova and DEX Innovation Centre.
Project details:
Project number: 543
Start date: 01.07.2020
End Date: 31.12.2022
Total budget:
2.192.546,66 Euro
ERDF contribution:
1.739.970,00 Euro
IPA II contribution:
362.130,00 Euro
ENI-MD contribution: 90.446,66 Euro
Source: Sarajevo International Airport
✈Aerodrom Bihac - Studija o procjeni utjecaja na okolinu
Studija o procjeni Utjecaja na okoliš radi se za projekat
izgradnje aerodroma u Bihaću. Cilj projekta, izgradnje aerodroma, je
uspostaviti zračni promet i povezati Grad Bihać i Unskosanski kanton sa ostalim
gradovima u BiH (Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla) i drugim destinacijama izvan BiH-a, u
cilju razvoja poslovanja, turizma, sporta i privatne avijacije i generirati
privredni rast kroz izgradnju poslovnog - turističkog aerodroma u Bihaću na
lokaciji gdje trenutno postoji mali sportski aerodrom. Značaj aerodroma se
ogleda i u tome, što će Zapadno Evropsko turističko tržište postati važno
odredište za turoperatore koji će uključivati charter prijevoz ove zračne luke
u svojoj ponudi zbog raftinga, lova, ribolova i drugih turističkih I poslovnih
aktivnosti i mogućnosti koje postoje u samoj regiji ali i susjednoj Hrvatskoj.
Ova turistička i
poslovna tržišta predstavljaju vrlo dinamičnu ekonomsku kategoriju sa velikim
mogućnostima u pogledu postojećih poslovnih veza sa firmama iz Bihaća i
sportskoturističke aktivnosti koje se nude u regiji i šire.
Dakle, generalni ciljevi
projekta su:
- uspostavljanje regionalne rute sa: Sarajevom, Bečom, Minhenom, Skandinavskimzemljama, Katarom, Turskom, Dubajiem i sl.
- mogućnost organizovanja čarter letova (mogućnost organizovanja turističkih ruta)
- preseljenju i uspostavljanju novih industrijskih zona
- promociji i razvoj turizma
- poslovna povezanost grada sa zemljama u okruženju.
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Source: Flying Bosnian
and CETOR
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
✈Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany air traffic report for 2019
Bosnia-Germany air route map (year 2019)
Germany is one of the most important trade partners of Bosnia and Herzegovina. With around 400.000 citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina living and working in Germany. Many German companies are present and operate on Bosnian market especially in banking sector.
Bosnia-Germany air routes (year 2019)
German companies continuously 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 unstable political and economic situation in Bosnia and
Herzegovina majority of young people are deciding to leave Bosnia and
Herzegovina in search of better jobs and security. Germany is still number one
destination for Bosnians when comes to finding employment outside of
Bosnia. Last year alone around 30.000 Bosnians have immigrated to Germany
(mostly skilled workforce).
Bosnia-Germany passenger numbers in 2019
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 have four international airports and all four have flights to
Germany. During 2019, total of 11 airports in Germany are served with flights from
Bosnian airports.
Bosnia-Germany passenger numbers by the airport in 2019
Source: Flying Bosnian
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
✈Sarajevo International Airport terminates its contract with Fly Bosnia
Sarajevo
International Airport has terminated its contract with Fly Bosnia after the
airline failed to pay its debts.
This
information was confirmed to Bosnian news portal Klix by Sarajevo airport,
stating that the suspension of Fly Bosnia has started on September 18th
of this year.
"Considering
that the airline did not settle its debts within the given period of 60 days,
nor did it accept the proposal on the manner of debt repayment, the contract on
providing services for receiving and dispatching aircraft, passengers and
luggage between Sarajevo International
Airport and FlyBosnia was terminated on November 17. 2020.” Sarajevo airport
said.
In addition, Sarajevo
Airport added that all necessary legal actions will be taken.
"In
connection with the goal of protecting its financial interests, a request for
activation (collection of a bank guarantee), was submitted today (November
18)," Sarajevo airport added.
In
December of last year, Fly Bosnia confirmed to Klix portal that they had agreed
to repay the debt to Sarajevo Airport, but also did not want to state how it would
be done and what the amount was.
Sarajevo airport
confirmed that the debt was not paid
despite the mentioned agreement.
Source:
Klix /Translation by FlyingBosnian
Monday, November 16, 2020
✈Bihac Airport applied for FBiH government funds
Public
Enterprise Bihac Airport has applied to
the Federal Ministry of Transport and Communications for the funds to continue the
construction of the test section of the runway by the end of the year. Funds
from the Federal Government are expected
in the coming weeks. Also, by the end of the year, Bihac Airport expects the
completion of the Aeronautical Study and the Revision of the Main Project.
Bihac
Airport submitted the Request for the Urban Planning to the Federal Ministry of
Planning and Construction. At the beginning of 2021 Bihac Airport is hoping to
get all necessary water and waterways protection permits, and finally by the
end of 2021 hoping to take a historic
step by applying for building permit.
In
addition, the airport is expecting that
through the Law on Public-Private Partnership, it will be competitive with
potential investors with whom they have already passed a certain number of
steps, believing that Bihac Airport will achieve cooperation through the
"build-operate-transfer" model.
The
airport emphasizes that the funds for the previous activities were provided by
the Federal Ministry of Transport and Communications, with promises that Bosnia
and Herzegovina federal government will continue to finance the improvement and
construction of the project, because the Airport in Bihac is the obligation of
the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
So far, the expropriation of land for the needs of the construction of the airport has been carried out according to the agreement from March 19. 2019, in the total amount of 6,612,100 Bosnian Marks.
For the purchase of land with an area of 264,484 m2, 2,000,000 KM was paid on March 19. 2019, then 1,500,000 KM on July 29. 2019, and another 2,000,000 KM on November 7.2019.
So far, the total amount paid for land expropriation amounts
to 12.112.100 Bosnian Marks or 6.192.818 Euros.
The
rest of the debt for land expropriation in the amounts of 1,112,100 KM should
be paid by December 31, 2022 at the latest.
Source:
Flying Bosnian and akta
Sunday, November 15, 2020
✈Sarajevo Airport statistics for October 2020
Sarajevo International Airport has posted statistic data for October, reflecting large decreases in all areas of operations due to global coronavirus pandemic. During the month of October a total of 21.416 passengers traveled through Sarajevo Airport, representing a decrease of 77% or 74.212 passengers less when compared to the same month of the last year. Number of operated flights decreased by 45% or 502 flights less, while transported cargo recorded decrease of 20%.
Source: Sarajevo Airport and flying Bosnian
Friday, November 13, 2020
✈ European aviation during and after COVID-19 crisis !
European aviation is feeling the burden of the COVID-19 crisis even more heavily than other world regions. Its year-to-date cumulative seat capacity is down by 55% – worse than in any other region.
Moreover, according to IATA, its airlines generated negative free cash flow at -83% of revenue in 2Q2020, versus an average of -52% for all regions. Preliminary 3Q2020 results from the leading European airline groups, Lufthansa, IAG and easyJet, indicate that they have continued to burn through cash at a rapid rate.
Europe's year-on-year cut in seat capacity narrowed slightly to -62.1% in the week commencing 26-Oct-2020, the first week of the winter 2020/2021 season, compared with -63.4% in the previous week. This was the first improvement in the trend in 10 weeks, but Europe still has the equal biggest reduction in capacity, tied with Middle East on -62.1%. Africa is -58.4%, Latin America -57.4%, North America -51.5%, and Asia Pacific is -38.4%.
Globally, airlines are expected to continue to burn cash until at least the end of next year, but Europe's airlines may struggle for cash break-even for longer than that.It is a sure sign that things are desperate when Europe's airlines, pilot unions and airports all agree. Jonathan Hinkles, CEO of the UK regional airline Loganair argues that without testing at airports, UK aviation is "whirling around like a leaf in an autumn storm".
EUROCONTROL member states
✈EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren says "Aviation continues to face the most severe threat in its history".
✈Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss warns that "without mass
testing", the UK's economic recovery "will not take off".
✈British Airways Airline Pilots' Association general secretary Brian
Strutton believes "UK aviation is in a death spiral".
✈Augustin de Romanet, chairman/CEO of Groupe ADP, owner of
the two main Paris airports, fears the "entire airline sector is slowly
dying".
After reaching peak recovery in Aug-2020, Europe is now
eight weeks into deepening year-on-year capacity cuts. Seat numbers are down
-62.2% in the week commencing 12-Oct-2020. Only Middle East has a deeper cut,
with -63.2%; Africa is -59.1%, Latin America -56.7%, North America -51.6%, and
Asia Pacific is -39.0%.
The European aviation industry urgently needs standardized, consistent COVID-19 testing to replace the web of quarantine restrictions that are choking it. After nine successive weeks of progressively worse year-on-year declines, Europe now has the deepest capacity cut of all the world regions.
Seat numbers have been cut by -63.4% in the week commencing
19-Oct-2020. Middle East, previously occupying last place, now moves above
Europe with a -62.8% cut, while Africa is -59.1%, Latin America -57.8%, North
America -52.1% and Asia Pacific is -39.2%.
Ryanair, Europe's biggest airline, has cut its winter
capacity plan from 60% to 40% of 2019 levels. EUROCONTROL DG Eamonn Brennan
told CAPA Live October that he expected air traffic movements in Europe at 40%
of last year's this winter, which suggests a lower figure for seat capacity
(since long haul flights, with more seats, have been cut more heavily than
short haul).
The EU's 'traffic light' approach to travel restrictions
does not seem likely to alleviate the outlook to any meaningful degree. With
Europe's aircraft perhaps only half full on average, passenger numbers could
fall short of 25% of prior year traffic, pushing revenue even lower.
From pandemic towards recovery – tracking the evolution of
European aviation during the pandemic.
We can expect European airline bankruptcies by the end of
this winter.
Source: Flying Bosnian/ EUROCONTROL/ IATA
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
✈ European Airports Traffic Statistics for JAN-SEP 2020
The report for European Airport Traffic Statistics for January-September 2020 is showing huge decline in passengers numbers compared to the same period of last year due to coronavirus pandemic. The report is showing passenger numbers by majority of European airports by each European country.
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Source and Copyrights Ⓒ 2020 The ANKER Report and flyingBosnian (www.anker-report.com)
Friday, October 23, 2020
✈ Sarajevo Airport Suspending €10 Passenger Fee
The government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a session on October 22, 2020 and passed a decision on suspending fees for the development of air traffic until 31.12.2021.
The abolition of this fee should result in a reduction of
airline ticket prices to the satisfaction of all passengers, as well as
airlines operating from Sarajevo International Airport.
The fee was introduced based on the decision of the government
of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005 with the aim to develop
civil aviation in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was applied
only to companies operating at Sarajevo International Airport.
The fee of 10 euros per departing passenger from Sarajevo
Airport was used mainly for the reconstruction and development of two other airports
in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar and Tuzla International
Airports). Last year, Sarajevo Airport collected €5.763.380 or 11.272.191
Bosnian Marks in the above-mentioned tax.
It is very ironic that the main airport in the country is
collecting this tax just to support Mostar Airport, which is partially owned by
a foreign company – in this case, Zagreb Airport. This is consistent with Tuzla
Airport, which supports foreign airline, Wizz Air, with huge discounts for
airport operations with the funds collected at Sarajevo Airport.
If Sarajevo Airport would like to see a recovery from the devastating
Covid-19 pandemic, its owner (the Government of Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina) should invest this tax to bring new airlines that would attract
mass tourism to the city and the whole country, or abolish the tax altogether
in favor of bringing low cost airlines to Sarajevo.
Source: Flying Bosnian and Sarajevo Airport
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
✈ Eurowings delays Sarajevo return until December
Eurowings has pushed back Sarajevo flights relaunch for December 19th. The airliner was selling tickets for flights beginning next week but due to Coronavirus cases rising in both Germany and Bosnia and even tighter traveling restrictions the airline decided to postpone Sarajevo flights resumption just before Christmas holidays. Both Cologne and Stuttgart will be resumed on December 19th with two weekly flights for both destinations.
➤Cologne-Sarajevo flights will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays (for Christmas-New Years holidays additional flight will be operated on Thursdays on following dates: 12/24, 12/31 and 01/07)
➤Stuttgart-Sarajevo flights will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
NOTE: Changes to schedules are likely possible due to unpredictable pandemic situation!
Source: Flying Bosnian
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
✈ Norwegian Air to resume Sarajevo flights!
Norwegian Air is resuming flights from Stockholm Arlanda Airport to Sarajevo on December 19. 2020. after 9 months break due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
During the summer of 2019 Norwegian Air operated flights from Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen and Gothenburg to Sarajevo. The airline plans to resume summer seasonal flights from all four Scandinavian destinations if the coronavirus pandemic is under control without border closures and entry restrictions.
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Flight
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Flight
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Operating
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ARN-SJJ |
DY 4343 |
07:35-10:15 |
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SJJ-ARN |
DY
4344 |
10:55-13:40 |
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Source: Flying Bosnian
✈Banja Luka Airport Winter 2020-21
Banja Luka International Airport terminal building and control tower
➤With the beginning of Winter timetable on Sunday October 25, Banja Luka Airport will see major flight reductions when compared to the same time of the last year. Air Serbia will operate two weekly flights from Belgrade while Ryanair will scale back its operations to Banja Luka from last year’s 5 destinations to only one this coming winter season.
➤Single destination Ryanair plans to operate to Banja Luka during upcoming winter timetable is new two weekly service from Gothenburg, beginning October 25.2020.
➤Ryanair will delay the launch of new
flights from Vienna to Banja Luka until March 29, while its planned new route
from Milan-Bergamo has been cancelled altogether.
➤Ryanair is pushing back the resumption of most of its flights to Banja Luka until spring of 2021.
➤Following routes are suspended until Summer timetable 2021. (changes to the schedules are likely possible due to uncertainty with coronavirus pandemic and borders opening and closing on short notice).
Ryanair Banja Luka flight resumption schedule
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ROUTE |
RESUMPTION
DATE |
DAYS (flights
operate) |
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1) Berlin Brandenburg - Banja
Luka |
28.03.2021. |
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2) Brussels
Charleroi - Banja Luka |
Not
published yet |
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3) Frankfurt Hahn- Banja Luka |
29.03.2021. |
1---5-- |
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4) Memmingen –
Banja Luka |
30.03.2021. |
-2---6- |
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5) Milan Bergamo – Banja Luka |
CANCELLED |
CANCELLED |
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6) Stockholm
Skavsta – Banja Luka |
CANCELLED |
CANCELLED |
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7) Vienna – Banja Luka |
29.03.2021 |
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Source: Flying Bosnian
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