✈Sky Alps statement regarding operations at Mostar International Airport

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina air traffic report for 2024

In 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina's four international airports handled a total of 2.476.138 passengers, reflecting a 2.07% increase compared to the previous year. Despite the closure of Wizz Air bases in Sarajevo and Tuzla, the airports were able to offset the loss in passenger traffic, particularly at Sarajevo Airport. This was achieved through the launch of new routes by Ryanair (six new routes), Sun Express Airlines (two new routes), and Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen), along with Wizz Air introducing flights to Rome. Additionally, there was an increase in frequencies on existing routes, primarily with airlines from the Gulf region, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait City, and Riyadh.

Mostar Airport introduced new flights by Sky Alps to Rome, Verona, Bari, and Munich, while Air Serbia launched three weekly flights between Belgrade and Mostar. 

Tuzla Airport welcomed new services to Istanbul by two airlines, Ajet and Pegasus Airlines, each offering one weekly flight. 

Banja Luka Airport introduced Ryanair flights from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, with two weekly services.

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo (SJJ)
Tuzla (TZL)
Banja Luka (BNX)
Mostar (OMO)	\

Bosnia and Herzegovina passenger air traffic history 

Source: Zahid Krkić and BHDCA

✈ Wizz Air to discuss potential base at Sarajevo Airport

Next week, Wizz Air will hold talks with Sarajevo Airport about the possibility of reopening a base at the airport. The airline plans to base one Airbus A320 aircraft at the airport, with additional details expected to be announced soon.

In the meantime, Wizz Air is expanding its Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo route. Initially, the airline had scheduled 3 to 5 weekly flights between the two cities. However, due to strong demand, Wizz Air is adding 88 additional round-trip flights, increasing seat capacity by 21.032. From April to October, the airline will operate 332 flights on the route, offering a total of 79.348 seats.

With the expansion of flights from Abu Dhabi, Wizz Air has climbed to the fourth position in terms of seat capacity at Sarajevo Airport, with a total of 150.570 seats across three routes: Abu Dhabi, London-Luton, and Rome.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Mostar Airport Summer Timetable 2025

Mostar International Airport is gearing up for a record-breaking summer season, with expectations to surpass 100,000 passengers. To support this growth, the airport has signed a new agreement with Italian airline Sky Alps to establish a base and launch additional routes. From May 15 to October 12, Sky Alps will station a Dash 8-400 aircraft in Mostar, offering flights to destinations including Bari, Bergamo, Munich, Naples, Palermo, Rome, and seasonal charter services to Corfu, Greece. The county government will provide subsidies for all scheduled flights (excluding the Corfu charters).

Eurowings will also introduce seasonal summer flights from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, initially operating once a week at the start and end of the season. During peak summer months, flights will increase to twice weekly. These services will also benefit from government subsidies.

For the first time, Mostar Airport will be connected to Istanbul with scheduled flights. Turkish low-cost carrier Ajet will offer a weekly service from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport to Mostar, utilizing a Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Meanwhile, Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines will maintain their three weekly flights each to Belgrade and Zagreb.

✈ Banja Luka Airport Summer Timetable 2025

Banja Luka Airport is set to experience an increase in both flights and seat capacity, as Ryanair expands its services to include more flights from Gothenburg and Stockholm. Meanwhile, Wizz Air will ramp up its operations from Basel, offering flights six times a week (daily except Saturdays) for most of the summer season.

Air Serbia, which had initially planned to increase its flights from Belgrade to three weekly services, has now canceled this plan. Instead of offering daily flights Air Serbia will reduce its services from three to just two weekly flights. Given Air Serbia’s lack of interest in developing the Belgrade-Banja Luka route, the airport may want to consider offering subsidies to a European legacy carrier to establish at least one direct connection to a major hub. This would provide convenient one-stop access to wide range of global destinations.

Austrian Airlines, with its five weekly flights to Vienna, or Turkish Airlines, with three to five weekly flights to Istanbul, would be ideal candidates to serve such a route.

Additionally, the following airlines will not be returning to Banja Luka this summer:

• Air Cairo, Hurghada 
• Nouvelair, Monastir
• Tailwind, Antalya

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Tuzla Airport Summer Timetable 2025

After months of stagnation, Tuzla Airport is set to welcome new route by Wizz Air.  Starting June 15, Wizz Air will introduce flights between Vienna and Tuzla four times a week. Additionally, the airline is increasing its frequency on the Dortmund and Memmingen routes, with both now being operated daily from June 1. This summer, Tuzla Airport will also see new carriers, including A Jet and Pegasus Airlines, both offering one weekly flight from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Corendon Airlines will replace last year’s Tailwind Airlines, operating charter flights to Antalya.

In comparison to the same period last year, Tuzla Airport will see a significant increase in both the number of flights and seats available. The number of seats offered will rise from 101,880 last year to 246,460 this year, reflecting a remarkable increase of 141.9%, or 144,580 additional seats. The number of flights will rise from 566 last year to 1.316 this year representing an increase of 132,50%, or 750 additional flights.

The Prime Minister of Tuzla Canton Irfan Halilagić has announced that Wizz Air will introduce two new routes by the end of summer—Cologne and Gothenburg. Additionally, Wizz Air will establish a base at Tuzla Airport by the end of summer season, with one aircraft stationed at Tuzla Airport. This new base will allow Wizz Air to operate flights to Cologne, Gothenburg, and Vienna directly from Tuzla, while routes to Basel, Dortmund, and Memmingen will be serviced by aircraft from other Wizz Air bases.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Sarajevo Airport Summer Timetable 2025

This summer, Sarajevo International Airport is set to break records with its flight and seat offerings. During the summer timetable, the airport will be served by 23 airlines, connecting 22 countries with 37 routes.

New additions include five routes by Ryanair, linking Sarajevo with Paris-Beauvais, Barcelona-Girona, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Stockholm-Arlanda, and Dusseldorf-Weeze. Norwegian Air will launch flights from Copenhagen, while Wizz Air will offer flights from Rome (a route not operated last summer). Additionally, new charter routes will be introduced by Nouvelair to Djerba, Tunisia and Aegean Airlines to Athens, Greece.

Several airlines will increase their operations in Sarajevo compared to last year, including:

- Eurowings (Cologne and Stuttgart)

- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)

- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)

- Ryanair (Milan-Bergamo, Brussels-Charleroi, Gothenburg, Munich-Memmingen, Thessaloniki)

- Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen)

- SunExpress Airlines (Antalya)

- Swiss Air Lines (Zurich)

However, some airlines will discontinue flights to Sarajevo:

- Aegean Airlines (Athens and Skopje)

- Air Arabia (Sharjah)

- A Jet (Antalya and Bodrum)

- Flyadeal (Jeddah and Riyadh)

During Summer Timetable Sarajevo Airport will have close to two million seats on offer. Following tables offer full analysis of Sarajevo Airport schedule by airlines, routes and countries served.

 

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Sarajevo Airport records over 1,8 million passengers in 2024

During last year Sarajevo Airport handled 1.821.762 passengers, representing an increase of 34%.The airport recorded 16.836 aircraft operations, representing an increase of 21%. Last year the airport handled 3.165 tons of cargo, representing an increase of  14%.

Last year Sarajevo Airport marked the arrival of Ryanair with six new routes, Scandinavian Airlines from Copenhagen, Aegean Airlines from Athens, SunExpress Airlines from Antalya and Izmir. Compared to the year before Sarajevo Airport added an additional 459.755 passengers. With announcement of new routes by Ryanair and increased frequencies by Eurowings, Lufthansa LOT Polish Airlines, Swiss Air Lines, Sarajevo Airport will break another record this year by handling over two million passengers.

Source: Zahid Krkić and Sarajevo Airport

✈ Ryanair to introduce four new routes from Sarajevo

Ryanair will introduce four new routes from Sarajevo International Airport at the beginning of summer flight schedule. The airline will introduce flights to Girona in Spain, Paris-Beauvais in France and Düsseldorf Weeze and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in Germany. Sarajevo Tourist Board will hold a press conference on Thursday, January 9th at 09:30 to introduce new flights. All new routes are scheduled to begin in April, operating twice per week. With the addition of four new routes, Ryanair network from Sarajevo will rise to 11 destinations in eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Ryanair to grow Sarajevo frequencies

By the end of this month Ryanair will announce new routes from Sarajevo. The airline will introduce at least three new routes, bringing Sarajevo route network to ten. When compared to the same time of last year, Ryanair will increase its Sarajevo flights as follows:

• Milan Bergamo (BGY) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year, to 5 weekly flights during April and May, and 4 weekly flights for the rest of summer schedule.
• Brussels Charleroi (CRL) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year to 3 weekly flights this year.
• Gothenburg (GOT) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year to 3 weekly flights this year.
• Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) is Ryanair’s new destination from Sarajevo with 2 flights a week.
• Flights to Thessaloniki (SKG) will start a month earlier, beginning June 2nd. 

During the 2024. summer schedule, Ryanair had 13 weekly departures from Sarajevo, while this year the figure will rise to 19 weekly departures.

Source: Zahid Krkić