✈Flydubai to operate 3 daily flights Dubai-Sarajevo

Flydubai has added a third daily flight between Dubai and Sarajevo. The airline will operate three daily flights from  July 15. to September 01. During the summer timetable Flydubai will operate a total of 556 round-trip flights offering 96.744 seats. Together with Air Arabia and Wizz Air, United Arab Emirates will be second most served market from Sarajevo International Airport with 199.692 seats on offer from April to November.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Flydubai to operate double daily flights to Sarajevo in December

Flydubai will operate double daily Dubai-Sarajevo flights from December 24, 2021. to January 08, 2022. due to high demand for travel between two cities for Christmas and New Year holidays.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Flydubai and Air Arabia to operate up to four daily flights to Sarajevo

 

On selected days during July, Flydubai will operate four daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. The demand for Dubai-Sarajevo flights is reaching pre pandemic levels when 3 daily flights were operated during summer season of 2019. Four daily flights Dubai- Sarajevo-Dubai will be operated on July 16, 23 and 24. For most of the summer season the airline will operate three daily flights from Dubai to Sarajevo. From July the airline will deploy Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on its Sarajevo service.

Air Arabia is increasing its Sharjah-Sarajevo service from July 12, up to two daily . Like Flydubai, Air Arabia will also operate four daily flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo on selected days during July. The airline will operate four daily flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo  on July 16 and 23, three daily flights on July 17and 24 (two from Sharjah and one from Abu Dhabi), two daily flights from July 18 until the end of the month. On selected days in July United Arab Emirates will be connected with Sarajevo with 8 daily flights. Increase of flights is expected to continue during the month of August as well.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Dubai Air Wing Boeing 747 lands in Sarajevo again!

Second visit of a Boeing 747 to Sarajevo International Airport

Dubai Air Wing 747-400 (reg. A6-HMM) flight from Dubai (DBX) to Sarajevo (SJJ) ON June 05. 2020. The aircraft delivered medical air for Montenegro using Sarajevo Airport as a landing point, since Podgorica airport doesn’t have unloading equipment to handle and service Boeing 747-400 aircraft

Photos by Jasmin L.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Dubai Air Wing Boeing 747 lands in Sarajevo!

Boeing 747-400 (reg. A6-COM) belonging to the government of Dubai has landed at Sarajevo International Airport today delivering valuable medical aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina including: 40 ventilators, 100.000 corona virus test kits, 25.000 ppe gowns, 150.000 pairs of medical gloves, 150.000 N95 masks, 150.000 disposable surgical masks, 150.000 disposable protective masks, 50.000 visors and 20.000 goggles.

Dubai Air Wing 747-400 at Sarajevo Airport, photos by KLIX

During corona virus pandemic Bosnia and Herzegovina has received medical aid from many countries. Medical aid was delivered via Sarajevo International Airport with large wide body aircraft (very unusual for Bosnian airports to see wide-body aircraft traffic).

Dubai Air Wing 747-400 landing at Sarajevo Airport (video by Amer V.)

During corona virus pandemic Sarajevo International Airport handled following wide body aircraft:

Airline/Operator	Aircraft	Photo
Dubai Air Wing	Boeing 747-400 (A6-COM)
Qatar Airways	Boeing 787-8  (A7-BCC)
Air Asia	Airbus 330-300  (9M-XXK)
Silk Way Airlines	Ilyushin-76TD  (4K-AZ60)
Turkish Air Force	Airbus A-400M  (15-0051)
Austria Air Force	Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈CEO of Emirates to attend Sarajevo Business Forum

One of the most successful businessmen and investors, a member of the ruling United Arab Emirates family, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum is attending this year's Sarajevo Business Forum.

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, is Chairman and CEO of one of the world's largest airlines Emirates, confirmed the arrival to the Sarajevo Business Forum 2019, the leading investment conference in Southeast Europe, which will be held this year from April 17 to 19 under the patronage of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is very likely for Emirates to announce Sarajevo as its next destination as the airline starts receiving smaller aircraft, suitable for Sarajevo Airport operations (Airbus A330-900neo is scheduled to join Emirates fleet from 2021).   

Al Maktoum is a senior United Arab Emirates official and is most deserving of the Dubai meteoric rise of the airline industry for 27 years. He was the lead of the Civil Aviation Directorate of Dubai since 1985, when the incredible business, investment and tourism expansion of this emirate, which today is the world's business metropolis, has begun.

Corporations from the area that Ahmed Al Maktoum is leading are today the largest in the region and among the most successful in the world. This is not the first visit for Mr. Al Maktoum to the Sarajevo Business Forum. He was a distinguished guest of the investment conference in 2010. The connection that was then established was crucial for a later fruitful continuation of cooperation, and then a decision to establish a direct flights between Dubai and Sarajevo.

Namely, during the visit of the director of BBI Bank Amer Bukvić Dubai, Sheikh Al Maktoum announced the arrival of one of his airline "Fly Dubai" in Sarajevo, which was later realized. Today, Flydubai is real engine for the development of tourism and business connections between Bosnia and Herzegovina and  and United Arab Emirates. Sheik Al Maktoum is a graduate of political science in Denver, USA, and is extremely appreciated in the world of business. He is the holder of numerous awards and prizes including the Order of Legion of Honor, the highest French decoration, Legend of Aviation—2007 Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year.

Bosna Bank International (BBI), in cooperation with its shareholders (Islamic Development Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank) and other international partners, is the organizer of the annual International Business and Investment Conference - Sarajevo Business Forum (SBF). The Conference was initially organized in 2010 and since then, has been held every year. The conference has been positioned as one of the most important business and investment events for Southeastern Europe.

Sarajevo Business Forum is connecting institutional and private investors and businessmen from all over the world with businessmen and project owners from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. It represents a platform for business networking and exploration of investment and business opportunities in the Southeast Europe region with the sole objective to foster its economic development.

 Sarajevo Business Forum Airline Gold Sponsors for 2019 are:

FlyBosnia and Turkish Airlines

The list of renowned SBF attendees during the previous eight years include H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey; H.E. Dr. Bandar M.H. Hajjar, President of Islamic Development Bank Group; H.E. Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia; H.E. Mehmet Simsek, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey; H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive Emirates Airline & Group; H.E. Dr. Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey; H.E. Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, State Minister for Financial Affairs of UAE; H.E. James Steinberg, former Deputy Secretary of State of the USA; H.E. Christian Danielsson, European Commission Director-General for NEAR and many more.

Source: Sarajevo Business Forum 

✈Emirates recruitment events in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Emirates is hosting two crew recruitment events in Bosnia and Herzegovina in coming weeks

-Sarajevo (30.03.2019. Hotel Europe)
-Mostar (21.04.2019. Hotel Mostar)

Follow this link for detailed info

Source: Emirates.com

✈Flydubai to launch Sarajevo-Podgorica flights!

Dubai-based airline flydubai has announced the start of flights to Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, which will begin on 01 November. With two flights a week, the flights include a stopover in Sarajevo, a popular destination on the flydubai network. Podgorica joins the airlines network in Central and Eastern Europe, which includes Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Prague, Skopje, Sarajevo and Sofia. flydubai will become the only UAE-based carrier to offer direct air links to Podgorica.

“With the launch of this new route, flydubai will become the first airline to offer regular services between Podgorica and Sarajevo,” said Jeyhun Efendi, Senior Vice President Commercial (UAE, EU, ME, CIS) at flydubai. “We look forward to the new opportunities that this will provide along with the flows of trade and tourism that these flights can offer.”

Sarajevo-Podgorica flight schedule

Source: Flydubai

✈ Flydubai is increasing Dubai-Sarajevo flights to 12 weekly!

Flydubai Boeing 737-800 landing at Sarajevo Int. Airport

From June 23. to September 17. 2017. Flydubai will introduce 5 additional weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. With this addition Flydubai will operate a total of 12 weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. Dubai based airline will offer total of 4.176 seats weekly between two cities. From June 23rd together with Air Arabia's daily flights from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates will be served with 19 weekly flights from Sarajevo.

Flight schedule Dubai-Sarajevo

Flight schedule Sarajevo-Dubai

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Sarajevo Airport winter timetable 2016-2017

Map of destinations

Flight reductions

In upcoming winter timetable starting on the 30^th of October, Sarajevo International Airport will see reduction of flights on the most popular routes from the city; Sarajevo-Istanbul and Sarajevo-Vienna. Turkish Airlines will reduce its twice daily service between Istanbul Ataturk Airport and Sarajevo to 10 weekly flights. Due to weather conditions in winter months and well known Sarajevo fog and very low visibility, Turkish Airlines has moved its morning arrival flight from 08:00 am to 11:00 am, which will allow airline to avoid early morning Sarajevo fog, causing almost daily flight delays and diversions to other airports in the region. Austrian Airlines will reduce its flights from 13 weekly from last year to 12 weekly this year. During winter, Sarajevo will lose direct connection to Zurich as well, since Swiss Air has decided to convert its three weekly flights from year round to summer seasonal. Air Arabia, also converted, its earlier announced year round, twice weekly service, from Sharjah in United Arab Emirates to Sarajevo to summer seasonal. 

More flights to Dubai, Lubljana and Istanbul (SAW)

Three airlines flying to Sarajevo will increase number of weekly flights, comparing to last winter schedule; 

Flydubai will increase its service from Dubai from 2 to 4 weekly, Adria Airways will increase its service from Ljubljana from 4 to 6 weekly and Pegasus Airlines will increase its service from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport to Sarajevo from 4 weekly to 6. 

Very limited connectivity 

Sarajevo Airport has very limited number of connections to major hubs in Europe: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Brussels...etc, and with Swiss Air dropping Sarajevo during winter months, Sarajevo is losing yet another important connection to Europe, putting Sarajevo on the list of the worst connected capital cities in Europe, when comes to air transport. Major problem for the airport is that it does not have "home" air carrier and is lacking presence of low cost carriers, due to high airport taxes and expensive landing and handling fees, making the airport unattractive and unpopular with the airlines. The airport administration is lacking in the departments of route development, promotion, marketing and in incentives to bring air carriers to open new routes and base aircraft at the airport. Only 11 destinations will be served from Sarajevo in upcoming winter (9 in Europe and 2 in Asia)!  

New in 2017!?

Possibility of Croatia Airlines to open base at Sarajevo Airport in 2017 has been surfaced, but no official confirmation did come from the airline. Only one new air carrier with one new destination has been confirmed for the next year; Qatar Airways with three weekly flights from Doha (Hamad International Airport), Qatar to Sarajevo.  

Number of weekly flights

Airline	Destination	Winter 15/16	Winter 16/17	Change
Adria Airways	Ljubljana	4	6	+2
Air Arabia	Sharjah	0	0	0
Air Serbia	Belgrade	7	7	0
Austrian Airlines	Vienna	13	12	-1
Croatia Airlines	Zagreb	13	13	0
Eurowings	Cologne	2	2	0
Eurowings	Stuttgart	1	1	0
Flydubai	Dubai	2	4	+2
Lufthansa	Munich	7	7	0
Norwegian Air	Stockholm	1	1	0
Norwegian Air	Oslo	0	0	0
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul (SAW)	4	6	+2
Swiss Air	Zurich	3	0	-3
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul (IST)	14	10	-4

Source: FlyingBosnian