✈ Mostar Airport Summer Timetable 2025

Mostar International Airport is gearing up for a record-breaking summer season, with expectations to surpass 100,000 passengers. To support this growth, the airport has signed a new agreement with Italian airline Sky Alps to establish a base and launch additional routes. From May 15 to October 12, Sky Alps will station a Dash 8-400 aircraft in Mostar, offering flights to destinations including Bari, Bergamo, Munich, Naples, Palermo, Rome, and seasonal charter services to Corfu, Greece. The county government will provide subsidies for all scheduled flights (excluding the Corfu charters).

Eurowings will also introduce seasonal summer flights from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, initially operating once a week at the start and end of the season. During peak summer months, flights will increase to twice weekly. These services will also benefit from government subsidies.

For the first time, Mostar Airport will be connected to Istanbul with scheduled flights. Turkish low-cost carrier Ajet will offer a weekly service from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport to Mostar, utilizing a Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Meanwhile, Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines will maintain their three weekly flights each to Belgrade and Zagreb.

✈Mostar International Airport Summer Timetable 2024

In the upcoming summer timetable, Mostar International Airport will see the arrival of two new airlines Air Serbia and Sky Alps, introducing five new routes. Both airlines have been awarded subsidies to start flights from Mostar. Sky Alps will connect Mostar with Rome, Verona, Bari, and Munich. All four routes will be operated twice weekly onboard 76 seats Bombardier DHC-8-400 aircraft.  From April 15, 2024. Air Serbia will connect Belgrade and Mostar,  Greek Airline Marathon Airlines will fly the route on behalf of Air Serbia with Embraer E175 aircraft. Flights will operate three times per week on Mondays, Fridays, and Sundays.

During summer timetable Mostar Airport will be connected to five destinations in four countries. Three airlines will operate a total of 726 round-trip flights, offering 57.168 seats.

• Air Serbia will operate 166 round-trip flights to/from Belgrade, offering 14.608 seats
• Croatia Airlines will operate 180 round-trip flights to/from Zagreb, offering 13.680
• Sky Alps will operate 380 round-trip flights to/from four destinations, offering 28.880 seats

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Sky Alps should open base in Tuzla and Mostar

During Summer Timetable 2024 Tuzla International Airport will see a significant drop in flights and seats offered when compared to the year before. For the same months last year Tuzla Airport had 501.480 seats on offer, while this year the airport has 206.988 seats, representing a decrease of 59%. 

The number of flights last year stood at 2.786, while this year is 1.276, representing a decrease of 54%. Due to Wizz Air closing its base at Tuzla Airport and withdrawing two Airbus 320 aircraft from the airport,  many destinations are discontinued without suitable replacement. Tuzla Airport management was surprised by the abrupt Wizz Air base closing and was scrambling to find any replacement for Wizz Air. 

With the financial help of Tuzla County Government, Tuzla airport was able to sign the deal with Greek airline Lumiwings to open base at Tuzla Airport with one Boeing 737-700 (149 seats). Lumiwings was awarded 2.400.000 Bosnian Marks (1.227.000 Euros). The airline opened five routes to secondary airports in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Nederland’s and just recently one main airport, Istanbul in Türkiye. 

Lumiwings is very small, unknown airline with a fleet of only two aircraft, one Boeing 737-700, currently based in Tuzla and one Embraer 195, currently based at Foggia Airport in Italy. The airline operates only subsidized flights, making it unappealing by its competitors and airports. 

Since local governments are offering large sums of money as subsidies to airlines, more attention should be paid to other airlines besides Wizz Air and Ryanair. Great example of an airline that could establish itself on Bosnian market is Sky Alps or Aegean Airlines, with its sister company Olympic Air, both airlines have perfect fleet for Bosnian market operations.

Tuzla is paying way too much to Lumiwings  for such a small number of flights and very unappealing secondary airports it operates too. 

Tuzla Airport management team together with Mostar Airport  should reach out to Sky Alps to nagotiate a deal that would benefit both airports. Sky Alps has ideal fleet for Tuzla and Mostar airports and could benefit of basing airplanes between both airports. Two airplanes could be based at Tuzla  during summer and offer Mostar flights as well (for example flights could operate as follows, TZL-MUC-OMO-MUC-TZL etc. This way Tuzla and Mostar could get flights to main airports like Munich, Copenhagen, Berlin, Cologne, Rome, Ljubljana, Vienna (there won’t be a problem of selling 76 seats on Dash8 aircraft compared to 180 seats Airbus 320). During winter months airline base should be in Mostar since weather conditions are more favorable in Herzegovina, flights could operate as follows OMO-FCO-TZL-FCO-OMO. 

Smaller aircraft is perfect for seasonal markets like Mostar and Tuzla, it would have year long great bookings, regardless of the season. This would ensure sustainability to the airports and safety to the customers, that their flights won’t be canceled very last minute. 

At the very first year of operations, passengers numbers won’t be as great as they were in 2019, but is should be around 400.000 for Tuzla and 150.000 for Mostar. Being connected to major airports in Europe is the goal of every small airport including Tuzla and Mostar. Both airports should put their resources together to achieve same goal. Both airports should cancel current very unfavorable subsides, Tuzla Airport (Lumiwings), Mostar Airport (Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines). 

Sky Alps would definitely be more affordable, and offer better services then current airlines. Since Sky Alps has Italian AOC it would be able to offer flight to both Belgrade and Zagreb. Unfortunately routes out of Mostar to Belgrade and Zagreb are purly political, based solely on political agenda, without any analysis on routes optimization and profitability. Sky Alps signed agreement with Lufthansa on feeding its route network, which could impact Mostar and Tuzla operations in big numbers, providing route to Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Stuttgart or Cologne and offer endless number of connecting flights on Lufthansa network. Such a deal would be big win for both airports, even if only one of the above mentions routes would be established, most likely it would be Munich.   

Zagreb route has been in service for awhile, and we can definitely confirm that this route is loosing big amounts of money without any benefit to the city or airport. Belgrade has more potential due to connecting flights but still, its way to expensive for what it is. 

Following routes could operate as year long with 2-3 weekly flights. All flights are possible to operate with two Dash8 aircraft with bases in either Mostar and Tuzla or one in each. After network development and frequency increases, all Italian flights could operate with crew and aircraft based in Italy.

Source: Zahid Krkić