✈ Qatar Airways to resume Doha-Sarajevo flights in June

Qatar Airways has scheduled Doha-Sarajevo flights relaunch after two years break due to Corona virus pandemic. Qatari national airline will restart Sarajevo flights on June 03, 2022. operating flights three times a week on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. All flights are scheduled to operate with an Airbus A320 aircraft offering 12 seats in business and 132 seats in economy class. Qatar Airways is offering connections to 140 destinations across the World through its hub at Doha International Airport.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Qatar Airways has postponed Sarajevo relaunch

Qatar Airways has postponed  relaunch of Doha-Sarajevo flights for winter timetable 2021/22. This is second time for Qatar Airways to postpone Sarajevo relaunch after the flights were suspended in March of 2020 due to global pandemic. The restoration of diplomatic relations between Qatar and four Arab states is set to have big impact on Qatar Airways. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to restore ties with Qatar, ending a blockade that has been in place for more than three years. 

Largest number of passengers on Qatar Airways flights from Doha to Sarajevo are transfer passengers from Australia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Due to pandemic causing many borders to be closed transfer passengers are almost non existent, forcing Qatar Airways to postpone Sarajevo relaunch once again. In general air travel from and to Sarajevo during winter months is minimal, making return of flights from Doha in November very unlikely. Relaunch of Doha-Sarajevo flights most likely will happened in March of 2022, with possibility of daily flights from June 2022.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Qatar abolishes visas for citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be able to travel to Qatar visa free for 90 days. Visa free travel was agreed at meeting between Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Mektic and Prime Minister of Qatar Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani held in Doha. Citizens of the State of Qatar are exempted from the visa requirements when entering, exiting or traveling through Bosnia and Herzegovina for up to 90 days.

Holders of  Bosnia and Herzegovina passport can travel without a visa to 117 countries. Bosnian passport is ranked 49th on the list of the most powerful passports in the world. Bosnia and Herzegovina is among the six countries that advanced the most on the list of the most  powerful passports. In the last 10 years Bosnian passport has moved from 72^nd to 49^th place.

Bosnian Ambassador to Qatar Bisera Turkovic  said in recent interview “with visa free travel between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Qatar, Qatar Airways will most likely increase Doha-Sarajevo flights to daily at the beginning of summer schedule in April of next year”. Last summer during peak travel season Qatar Airways operated flights to Sarajevo with wide-body aircraft, an Airbus 330-200.

Qatar Airways Airbus 330 at Sarajevo Airport

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Qatar Airways is deploying Airbus 330 to Sarajevo

Qatar Airways Airbus 330 at Sarajevo Airport, photo by Jasmin L.

During month of August, Qatar Airways is increasing capacity on Doha-Sarajevo route by using Airbus 321 and Airbus 330-200 aircraft. Qatar Airways is deploying larger aircraft to Sarajevo due to increased demand for both economy and business class seats. First flight operating by Airbus 330-200 is scheduled next Tuesday on August 13^th. Doha-Sarajevo route is operated four times per week by an Airbus 320, offering 132 seats (120 economy and 12 business seats). During month of August Qatar Airways will operate total of 17 round-trip flights between Doha and Sarajevo with following aircraft schedule:

Aircraft	Dates Operating	Total seats	Business seats
Airbus 320-200	07, 14, 28, 30	1.056	96
Airbus 321-200	02, 04, 06, 09, 11, 18,	2.184	144
Airbus 330-200	13, 16, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27	3.640	336
Total	17 round-trip flights	6.880	576

• Airbus 320 – 132 seats (120Y and 12J)
• Airbus 321 – 182 seats (170Y and 12J)
• Airbus 330 – 260 seats (236Y and 24J)

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Qatar Airways has postponed Sarajevo launch

Qatar Airways in last week’s schedule update, has made further frequency changes on a number of destinations, as a result of aircraft shortage and redeployment, including Sarajevo, between June and October 2016. Planned Doha-Sarajevo service launch from 07. September 2016. is postponed to 02. November 2016. Flight schedule and frequencies are still unchanged.

QR293 DOH 0730 – 1155 SJJ (--3-5-7) Airbus 320

QR294 SJJ 1255 – 1840 DOH (--3-5-7) Airbus 320

✈Qatar Airways is launching Doha-Sarajevo flights

Qatar Airways is adding Sarajevo to its route network from its hub in Doha beginning September 7th 2016, with three flights per week on A320-family aircraft. Flights will operate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays year round. Qatar Airways is third company from Gulf region to have regular scheduled flights to Sarajevo joining Flydubai and Air Arabia.

Flight	Departing	Arriving	Days	Aircraft
QR 0293	DOH 07:30	SJJ 11:55	WED, FRI, SUN	Airbus 320
QR 0294	SJJ 12:55	DOH 18:40	WED, FRI, SUN	Airbus 320

✈Fly Dubai is increasing flights from Dubai to Sarajevo

As of January 23. 2016. Fly Dubai will add one more weekly flight from Dubai to Sarajevo (total of three weekly flights). Fourth weekly flight will be added March 30. 2016.  From June 23. 2016. to September 14. 2016. flights will be operated daily. Fly Dubai started with just two weekly flights and gradually increasing to almost daily last summer season, recording record number of passengers using the flights. Flights are catering to rapidly increasing number of tourist from Gulf countries visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as business travelers. Flights are very popular with Bosnians living in Australia connecting on Emirates flights in Dubai. Huge demand for this flights has prompted Qatar Airways to consider starting its own flights to Sarajevo in summer of 2016. So far, no official announcement has been made by Qatar Airways but it is expected that flights will commence during 2016. Flights to Doha most likely will have a stop in Skopje. Qatar Airways practice with flights to Balkans is to start with two weekly flights with a stop as they did with Zagreb flights going via Budapest, until demand was there to fly direct Doha-Zagreb. Flight to Belgrade still operate via Sofia. Hopefully Qatar Airways will have rights to sell tickets between Skopje and Sarajevo which would be great addition to Sarajevo Airport destination network.

Dubai-Sarajevo-Dubai daily flights 23/06/16 to 14/09/16