Sarajevo International Airport is offering incentive for all airlines interested in opening base at the airport:
In accordance with a Management Board Decision from 26th August 2020 and an item 18.4 of Airport Handling Charge List - Incentives for Airline Companies which have a base at Sarajevo International Airport in the aim
of mitigating negative impacts caused by COVID-19 pandemic at Sarajevo International Airport.
Sarajevo
International Airport LLC, ISSUES PUBLIC NOTICE
for submitting proposals for an airline base opening at Sarajevo International Airport in a period from 2021
until 2023
I Subject of the Public Notice
Subject of the Public Notice is the opening of the airline base at Sarajevo International Airport.
The base implies a place set by airline carriers, where a member of crew personnel starts and ends time of duty or duty
periods and where, under normal circumstances, an operator is not under obligation to provide an accommodation for a
member of crew personnel. In the first stage, the base is set up for two aircraft, with the option of increasing number of
aircraft, as available capacities increase at Sarajevo International Airport or when other conditions are fulfilled.
II Entitlement to Participate
All airline companies which plan to introduce scheduled route/s at Sarajevo International Airport are entitled to submit a
request for the base.
III Time Period for the Airline Base
The base of the airline carrier is set up for the period from 2021 until 2023.
IV Airport Operating Hours
It is mandatory to comply with the airport operating hours, the same for Winter as well as for Summer flight schedule.
V Public Notice Criteria
1. Number of Weekly Air Operations
-Those air carriers which plan to carry out the largest number of air operations per week/month, i.e. per year,
shall have a priority.
-Those air carriers which plan to increase a number of air operations in 2022 and 2023, shall have a priority.
2. Number of Passengers per Year in Accordance with a Chart Below
Incentive program based upon the number of passengers for the airline companies which have a base at Sarajevo
International Airport shall be approved by a previous written request/information of the airline company on estimated
number of passengers (total number of passengers, as well as upon the number of outbound passengers) for the
current year, based upon the Airport's handling charge list and upon the outcome of negotiations.
Also, taking
into consideration that the discount is approved in advance, after the end of a calendar year, the Company shall revise
accomplished quantitative indicators (total number of passengers/total number of outbound passengers) for the airline
companies which have a discount in accordance with the item 18.4 of the Charge List, and corrections shall be done
immediately, if necessary.
3. Air Carrier Flight Destinations
Those air carriers which plan to launch a larger number of destination routes shall have a priority as well as those which
plan to launch routes towards destinations where there were no flights in 2019.
4. Number and Aircraft Types Which are to Be Used by the Air Carrier for Air Operations (Aircraft
Characteristics, Aircraft Wingspan, MTOW)
Those airline companies which plan to operate with aircraft types which have the capacity of 150 passengers or more
shall have a priority, whereat satisfying environment protection and noise protection requirements in compliance with
legal regulations, runway weight bearing capacity, Sarajevo airport technical characteristics etc.
VI Deadline for Submission of Proposals
A proposal for the airline base must be submitted in writing and it needs to include all necessary information in relation
to the above mentioned criteria (the number of weekly operations, the estimated number of outbound passengers as
well as the total number of estimated passengers which an airline company plans to transport per year, the number of
destination routes and destination routes towards which an airline company plans to launch flights from Sarajevo, as
well as aircraft types which an airline company plans to use for air operations).
Written requests are submitted within 30 days from the day of the public notice publication. In case of different
publication dates in different media, the deadline starts from the last publication date by Sarajevo International Airport.
Written request may be submitted via e-mail vikicv@sarajevo-airport.ba or via Sarajevo International Airport Protocol
Department, Kurta Schorka 36, 71000, Sarajevo, with a note ‘’Proposals for an airline base opening at Sarajevo
International Airport’’
Contact person
Vedrana Vikic Music
Phone Number. +387 33 289 174
Sales Manager
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Source: Sarajevo Airport
