✈Bosnia and Herzegovina government grants visa-free entry to citizens of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Oman during summer season

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced that citizens of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Oman will enjoy visa-free entry during the upcoming summer season. The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina approved this decision, proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and confirmed by Minister Elmedin Dino Konaković. Travelers from these Gulf nations will not need a visa to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina from June 1. to September 30.2025.

In response to the visa waiver, Flyadeal Airlines revealed that it will be adding a new route from Gassim, Saudi Arabia, to Sarajevo, marking its third destination from Saudi Arabia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, following Jeddah and Riyadh. The new flights will start on June 21.2025. operating twice weekly (on Thursdays and Saturdays) until August 16.2025. Flyadeal will offer a total of 34 round-trip flights from Gassim to Sarajevo, providing 6.324 seats. With flights already running from Jeddah and Riyadh, the airline will operate 244 flights in total from three Saudi airports, offering 45.384 seats.

Meanwhile, Salam Air will resume its twice-weekly flights from Muscat, Oman, to Sarajevo. The service will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays from July 2.2025. to August 30.2025. with an Airbus A321neo aircraft. Salam Air is scheduled to operate 36 flights in both directions, providing 7.632 seats.

Additionally, Arkia Airlines, following the success of its charter program last year, will resume regular charter flights from Tel Aviv to Sarajevo. Starting on June 7.2025. flights will operate once weekly on Saturdays until September 27.2025. During July and August, Arkia will increase frequency to double daily flights on Saturdays. A total of 52 flights are planned, offering nearly 10.000 seats.

With the addition of new routes for the summer timetable (April-October), Sarajevo Airport will be served by 27 airlines, providing access to 41 destinations across 3 continents, with a total of 2.072.817 available seats on 12.380 flights.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ 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.

✈ Banja Luka Airport Summer Timetable 2025

Banja Luka Airport is set to experience an increase in both flights and seat capacity, as Ryanair expands its services to include more flights from Gothenburg and Stockholm. Meanwhile, Wizz Air will ramp up its operations from Basel, offering flights six times a week (daily except Saturdays) for most of the summer season.

Air Serbia, which had initially planned to increase its flights from Belgrade to three weekly services, has now canceled this plan. Instead of offering daily flights Air Serbia will reduce its services from three to just two weekly flights. Given Air Serbia’s lack of interest in developing the Belgrade-Banja Luka route, the airport may want to consider offering subsidies to a European legacy carrier to establish at least one direct connection to a major hub. This would provide convenient one-stop access to wide range of global destinations.

Austrian Airlines, with its five weekly flights to Vienna, or Turkish Airlines, with three to five weekly flights to Istanbul, would be ideal candidates to serve such a route.

Additionally, the following airlines will not be returning to Banja Luka this summer:

• Air Cairo, Hurghada 
• Nouvelair, Monastir
• Tailwind, Antalya

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Tuzla Airport Summer Timetable 2025

After months of stagnation, Tuzla Airport is set to welcome new route by Wizz Air.  Starting June 15, Wizz Air will introduce flights between Vienna and Tuzla four times a week. Additionally, the airline is increasing its frequency on the Dortmund and Memmingen routes, with both now being operated daily from June 1. This summer, Tuzla Airport will also see new carriers, including A Jet and Pegasus Airlines, both offering one weekly flight from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Corendon Airlines will replace last year’s Tailwind Airlines, operating charter flights to Antalya.

In comparison to the same period last year, Tuzla Airport will see a significant increase in both the number of flights and seats available. The number of seats offered will rise from 101,880 last year to 246,460 this year, reflecting a remarkable increase of 141.9%, or 144,580 additional seats. The number of flights will rise from 566 last year to 1.316 this year representing an increase of 132,50%, or 750 additional flights.

The Prime Minister of Tuzla Canton Irfan Halilagić has announced that Wizz Air will introduce two new routes by the end of summer—Cologne and Gothenburg. Additionally, Wizz Air will establish a base at Tuzla Airport by the end of summer season, with one aircraft stationed at Tuzla Airport. This new base will allow Wizz Air to operate flights to Cologne, Gothenburg, and Vienna directly from Tuzla, while routes to Basel, Dortmund, and Memmingen will be serviced by aircraft from other Wizz Air bases.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Sarajevo Airport Summer Timetable 2025

This summer, Sarajevo International Airport is set to break records with its flight and seat offerings. During the summer timetable, the airport will be served by 23 airlines, connecting 22 countries with 37 routes.

New additions include five routes by Ryanair, linking Sarajevo with Paris-Beauvais, Barcelona-Girona, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Stockholm-Arlanda, and Dusseldorf-Weeze. Norwegian Air will launch flights from Copenhagen, while Wizz Air will offer flights from Rome (a route not operated last summer). Additionally, new charter routes will be introduced by Nouvelair to Djerba, Tunisia and Aegean Airlines to Athens, Greece.

Several airlines will increase their operations in Sarajevo compared to last year, including:

- Eurowings (Cologne and Stuttgart)

- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)

- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)

- Ryanair (Milan-Bergamo, Brussels-Charleroi, Gothenburg, Munich-Memmingen, Thessaloniki)

- Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen)

- SunExpress Airlines (Antalya)

- Swiss Air Lines (Zurich)

However, some airlines will discontinue flights to Sarajevo:

- Aegean Airlines (Athens and Skopje)

- Air Arabia (Sharjah)

- A Jet (Antalya and Bodrum)

- Flyadeal (Jeddah and Riyadh)

During Summer Timetable Sarajevo Airport will have close to two million seats on offer. Following tables offer full analysis of Sarajevo Airport schedule by airlines, routes and countries served.

 

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Ryanair to introduce four new routes from Sarajevo

Ryanair will introduce four new routes from Sarajevo International Airport at the beginning of summer flight schedule. The airline will introduce flights to Girona in Spain, Paris-Beauvais in France and Düsseldorf Weeze and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in Germany. Sarajevo Tourist Board will hold a press conference on Thursday, January 9th at 09:30 to introduce new flights. All new routes are scheduled to begin in April, operating twice per week. With the addition of four new routes, Ryanair network from Sarajevo will rise to 11 destinations in eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Ryanair to grow Sarajevo frequencies

By the end of this month Ryanair will announce new routes from Sarajevo. The airline will introduce at least three new routes, bringing Sarajevo route network to ten. When compared to the same time of last year, Ryanair will increase its Sarajevo flights as follows:

• Milan Bergamo (BGY) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year, to 5 weekly flights during April and May, and 4 weekly flights for the rest of summer schedule.
• Brussels Charleroi (CRL) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year to 3 weekly flights this year.
• Gothenburg (GOT) will increase from 2 weekly flights last year to 3 weekly flights this year.
• Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) is Ryanair’s new destination from Sarajevo with 2 flights a week.
• Flights to Thessaloniki (SKG) will start a month earlier, beginning June 2nd. 

During the 2024. summer schedule, Ryanair had 13 weekly departures from Sarajevo, while this year the figure will rise to 19 weekly departures.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈ Ryanair, increases Banja Luka flight operations by 28%

Ryanair has made an update to its summer timetable 2025 for flights to/from Banja Luka, significantly increasing number of flights when compared to the same time of the last year. The airline is adding an additional 322 flights across its six routes its serves from Banja Luka International Airport, representing an increase of 28,4%. The number of seats on offer will increase by 60.858 seats, representing an increase of 28,4%. The largest increase in flights and seats offered will be to Gothenburg and Karlsruhe/ Baden Baden.  During  April-September of next year Ryanair will further strengthen its position as leading airline at Banja Luka International Airport. Ryanair flight schedule is subject to minor changes and will be finalized during the month of January of 2025. 

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Eurowings to increase Sarajevo flights

From April of next year Eurowings is increasing Sarajevo flight operations on both routes currently  operated by the airline from Sarajevo Airport. Sarajevo-Cologne will increase from last year’s four weekly flights to six weekly, flights will operate every day but Saturday. Eurowings second destination from Sarajevo, Stuttgart will see flight increase from two weekly to three weekly. Eurowings is one of the airlines who won subsidies from Sarajevo Tourist Board for the establishment of new routes, the airline has plans to introduce four new destinations from Sarajevo. The first route, Berlin, will launch in summer 2025, followed by Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Hanover in 2026. The airline is yet to schedule and put Sarajevo-Berlin flights on sale. When compared to same time of the last year Eurowing will increase number of seats it offers on Cologne-Sarajevo route by 16.740 seats and Stuttgart-Sarajevo route by 5.616 seats. When Berlin-Sarajevo route is added to the Sarajevo network, Eurowings will have around 100.000 seats on offer.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Ryanair to launch Stockholm-Sarajevo flights

Ryanair is adding its second destination in Sweden, after success of flights from Gothenburg, the airline is introducing two weekly flights from Stockholm Arlanda Airport to Sarajevo. Flights are scheduled to start on April 1, operating twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. This is Ryanair’s seventh destination from Sarajevo, the airline plans to increase its presence at Sarajevo Airport by introducing 3 additional routes, for a total of ten. This will position Ryanair as the number one airline in Sarajevo by the number of flights and seats offered. Three new destination will be announced in the coming weeks. Ryanair is facing direct competition on Stockholm Arlanda-Sarajevo route by Norwegian Air, operating flights two times per week on the same days as Ryanair.

Since Norwegian Air is operating flights on the same days as Ryanair, here is the schedule for Norwegian Air. Having two airlines competing on the same route will benefit customers with great prices and most likely introduction of more frequencies, predominantly by Ryanair, since the airline is known for price dumping until they win customers over.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Norwegian Air to launch Copenhagen-Sarajevo flights

Norwegian Air is launching flights between Copenhagen and Sarajevo beginning May 3. Flights are scheduled to operate twice per week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays until October 25. with Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft offering 189 seats. The airline will operate a total of 51 flights each way, offering 19.278 seats (round trip). Copenhagen is third destination for Sarajevo  served by Norwegian Air, the airline operates flights from Stockholm and Oslo. During the peak summer months Norwegian Air will offer six weekly flights out of Sarajevo (Copenhagen 2x weekly, Oslo 2x weekly and Stockholm 2x weekly). During the summer season Copenhagen and Sarajevo will be served by two airlines (Scandinavian Airlines and Norwegian Air), offering four flights per week, two weekly flights by each airline.

Source: Zahid Krkić