AlbaStar 737-400 operating EYOF charter flight Milan-Sarajevo
Last month Sarajevo Airport returned to growth, thanks to the European
Youth Olympic Winter Festival being held in the city from February 9-16. This
event has helped the airport to achieve over 50.000 passengers in February (February is well known as the weakest month for air travel. 46
national Olympic Committees sent a total of 911 athletes. Day before the
opening of the Festival Sarajevo Airport received seven charter flights from:Basel, Helsinki, Moscow, Minsk, Milan, Prague
and Vienna, Total of 2.500 passengers were handled day before and day after the
event.
FINNAIR A321 will arrive from Helsinki on Saturday (09.02.19)
For the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF-2019) Sarajevo
airport will handle many charter flights starting today with Aeroflot’s Airbus 321
from Moscow. Passengers and aircraft traffic during month of February is
considered one of the slowest in a whole year. Sarajevo airport will great many
general aviation and private aircraft as well which will help to boost this month’s
passengers numbers.
After a four-day trip from Rome to Banja Luka, the Flame of Peace
arrived in Sarajevo on February 02.2019. The European Youth Olympic Festival
(EYOF-2019) welcome ceremony took place at Sarajevo International Airport.
Thanks to FLYBOSNIA, the delegation landed at the airport on time and safely. FlyBosnia applied special livery for EYOF. The Airbus 319 made its first scheduled charter flight Sarajevo-Banja Luka-Sarajevo transporting EYOF-2019 delegation and official Flame of Peace
FlyBosnia A319 at BNX
FlyBosnia A319 in-flight to SJJ
This is a festive moment for Bosnia and Herzegovina, bringing back
good memories of unity and peace of 1984 Winter Olympics Games held in Sarajevo
35 years ago. The Flame of Peace will be lit at the "Asim Ferhatović
Hase" Stadium, on February 10th, when the European Youth Olympic Festival
will officially start.
The ceremony of greeting the Flame of Peace was attended
by members of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Šefik Džaferović and Željko
Komšić, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Denis Zvizdić, and representatives of the Canton and City of Sarajevo, as well
as numerous athletes.
Mayor of Sarajevo Abdulah Skaka said that he is proud that the
Olympic torch is in Sarajevo again.
"I want our children to live the values of the Olympic spirit. It
is our obligation to create platforms, and EYOF is one of them. EYOF is an
opportunity to jointly build some new, better and more positive times. I
sincerely hope EYOF will awaken the Olympic spirit in our city", Skaka
said.
Nenad Vuković, the mayor of the city of East Sarajevo, addressed
the attendees.
"This is a great opportunity to show how we can do great
things together. In the coming days, we will have the opportunity to send a
positive image to 46 countries whose representatives will arrive in our
country", said Vuković.
After the Mayors’ addresses, the Flame of Peace was presented to
members of the Presidency, Džaferović and Komšić by Amar Barukčija, the winner
of the gold medal for Bosnia and Herzegovina in basketball at EYOF, and Esma
Alić, this year's EYOF participant.
"It is my great honor and pleasure to be here on a big day
for our country Bosnia and Herzegovina. This sporting event helps Bosnia and
Herzegovina and has a positive impact on the reputation of our country
internationally", said Džaferović.
Željko Komšić said that it is a pleasure to be in this place and
to be able to take part in such a big sporting event, the largest since the
Winter Olympic Games in 1984. He wished good luck to the organizing committee
and to all the people who are ready for the upcoming Festival.
Source:City of Sarajevo, EYOF-2019 and Flying Bosnian
First month of the year Sarajevo Airport registered slight passengers
decline of 1%. Airport recorded 10% decline in aircraft operations or 100
operations less then in January of last year. Even though airport recorded
significant decline in aircraft operations, the airlines are using larger
aircraft on its scheduled flights to/from Sarajevo compensating with aircraft
with larger capacities. During month of January Turkish Airlines majority of its
flights operated with Airbus 321, Austrian Airlines operated about 50% of its
flights using Airbus 319 instead of much smaller Airbus 220, while Air Serbia
used Airbus 319 twice to three times weekly. Croatia Airlines used Airbus 319
couples of times on its flights to Sarajevo during January too.
Month of
February should see solid increase in passengers due to Sarajevo hosting
European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) from 09-16 February 2019. Total of 1.100
athletes will participate in the games from 46 national federations, many of them arriving by air using Sarajevo Airport.
