✈Ajet is increasing Istanbul-Sarajevo flights to daily

Beginning August 1^st Turkish low-cost carrier Ajet is upgrading Istanbul (SAW) – Sarajevo flights from 3 weekly to daily. Flights are scheduled to operate daily until the end of summer schedule (October 26, 2024). With Ajet flight increase Istanbul (both airports) and Sarajevo will be connected with six daily flights. All Ajet flights are scheduled to operate with an Airbus 321neo aircraft offering 211 seats.

• 3 daily flights by Turkish Airlines
• 2 daily flights by Pegasus Airlines
• 1 daily flight by Ajet

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Wizz Air to launch Rome-Sarajevo flights

Wizz Air has scheduled year-round three weekly flights  between Rome and Sarajevo. Flights begin on October 29 and will operate with Airbus 321 aircraft. Together with four weekly flights to London Luton, Wizz Air will have seven weekly flights from Sarajevo during the winter timetable. Rome is second destination in Italy to be served from Sarajevo, after Ryanair started flights from Milan Bergamo to Sarajevo in April of this year.

Source:Zahid Krkić

✈Wizz Air to increase Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo flights to daily

Wizz Air is increasing Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo flights from four weekly to daily from March 26, 2023. Last year Wizz Air introduced two weekly flights between two cities, increasing to four weekly just three months after the first flight. Due to increased demand flights will go daily from the beginning of summer timetable. Wizz Air operates this route with an Airbus 321 neo aircraft offering 239 seats. From April 1st to October 31st Wizz Air will operate a total of 426 flights, offering 101.814 seats. Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo distance is 3.934 kilometers or 2.444 miles, with an average flight time of 5 hours and 30 minutes.

Source: Z.K. @flyingbosnian

✈ Banja Luka Airport – photo update

Banja Luka Airport terminal building and control tower

Photos from Banja Luka International Airport, taken by Mirza SM, on Wizz Air flight Malmo-Banja Luka (December 24, 2021). The flight was operated by Wizz Air Hungary, Airbus 321, registration HA-LXS. The flight was 95% full, with 225 passengers on board.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Wizz Air Abu Dhabi to launch Sarajevo flights

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will launch two weekly flights from Abu Dhabi to Sarajevo beginning October 03. Flights are scheduled to operate with airline’s brand-new Airbus 321neo aircraft offering 239 seats. With yesterday’s expansion announcement,  by the end of this year Wizz Air will offer connection to 17 destinations out of its Sarajevo base. United Arab Emirates – Sarajevo is very popular for air travel during summer months with flights being operated by Flydubai up to 3x daily and Air Arabia 2x daily. From May 2023 it is very likely that Wizz Air will operate daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Sarajevo.

✈ Trip report: Chicago (ORD) – Istanbul (IST) – Sarajevo (SJJ)

Turkish Airlines Airbus 321neo (delivered June 14. 2021)

I was flying from the USA to Bosnia yesterday, Seattle (SEA) – Chicago (ORD) – Istanbul (IST) – Sarajevo (SJJ). I was surprised on how many people were flying from Chicago to Sarajevo via Istanbul. There were at least 60 passengers from Chicago, connecting on Turkish Airlines flight to Sarajevo. Istanbul new airport is excellent, very specious, and modern. My flight from Istanbul to Sarajevo was on Turkish Airlines brand new Airbus 321neo aircraft (TC-LTH). The flight was completely booked in economy class (162 seats), while business class had eight empty seats out of 20. Photos from the flight

✈ FlyBosnia leases an Airbus 321

FlyBosnia has leased its second aircraft, an Airbus 321-200 from Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly. The aircraft is 22 years old, with registration CS-TRJ, configured with 153 seats (F4-C12-Y137). FlyBosnia operated this year’s first revenue flight on June 17, 2021. from Sarajevo to Hurghada in Egypt using Hi Fly’s Airbus 321 aircraft. Same aircraft is scheduled to operate its second revenue flight for FlyBosnia today as flight HFY0371 from Sarajevo to Riyadh. Currently FlyBosnia has two aircraft in its fleet, an Airbus 320 (reg. TC-OBU) leased from Onur Air and Airbus 321 (reg. CS-TRJ) leased from Hi Fly.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Bigger airplanes are daily sight at Sarajevo International Airport

Swiss Airbus 320 HB-IJF on todays flight Zurich-Sarajevo

Don’t be surprised if you see Turkish Airlines wide body aircraft operating flights between Istanbul and Sarajevo this summer. With beginning of summer schedule Sarajevo International Airport is seeing increase in usage of larger aircraft serving the airport. Turkish Airlines is sending Airbus 321 almost daily on one of its three daily flights from Istanbul. On some days all three flights are operated with Airbus 321 (largest narrow body aircraft in airlines fleet with seating capacity up to 194 passengers). Austrian Airlines is another airline using larger aircraft this summer. In the past years most of the flights were operated once daily with Airbus 319 and once daily with Fokker 100. As of beginning of summer timetable Austrian Airlines is operating twice daily flights from Vienna with Airbus 320 featuring 168 seats and on some days Airbus 321 with 200 seats. Lufthansa is using Airbus 320 on its flights from Munich and some days Airbus 321. Today’s flight from Zurich with Swiss International Airlines was operated with Airbus 320 which has almost double the capacity of the scheduled Avro RJ. This summer Air Serbia is using ATR-72 with 66 seats instead of much larger Airbus 319. Last summer season Air Serbia was operating mix of ATR-72, Boeing 737-300 and Airbus 319 on flights from Belgrade. Main reason for Air Serbia not using larger aircraft is shortage in fleet during busy summer season for the airline. Pegasus, Norwegian and Flydubai all fly to Sarajevo with Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats. Germanwings is using Airbus 319 with 144 seats and as of this year for the first time on some days Germanwings is using Airbus 320 on flights to Stuttgart and Cologne. With usage of larger aircraft Sarajevo International Airport is well on the way to reach 800.000 passengers this year.

Source: FlyingBosnian