Due
to low visibility at Banja Luka and Sarajevo Airports, flights were diverted to
Tuzla. Two Ryanair flights were diverted from Banja Luka to Tuzla, one from
Milan-Bergamo and the other from Stockholm-Arlanda. Also, two flights from
Sarajevo were diverted to Tuzla, Pegasus Airlines flight from Istanbul-Sabiha
and the other Wizz Air from Abu Dhabi. With diverted flights Tuzla Airport
handled 11 arriving flights, seven regular scheduled departing flights and one
unscheduled diverted flight to Istanbul. Passengers for Istanbul flight were
transported by bus from Sarajevo to Tuzla to get on Istanbul flight, while
passengers for Abu Dhabi flight were transported to Sarajevo also by bus. Wizz
Air returning flight to Abu Dhabi is scheduled to leave Tuzla to Sarajevo
tomorrow morning, and then continue to Abu Dhabi. During winter months low
visibility with fog is causing major flight disruptions on all airports in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until this year the majority of flights that couldn’t
land at Banja Luka airport were diverted to Zagreb, while Tuzla flights were
diverted to Belgrade, Sarajevo flights most of the time were sent back to its
original starting airport. As of last month, flight diversions are coordinated
between airports in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, avoiding major inconvenience for passengers with border crossings
when flights were diverted to neighboring countries.
