✈ Air Arabia is increasing Sharjah-Sarajevo flights

Air Arabia is increasing Sharjah-Sarajevo flights from daily to 10 weekly, the airline is adding second daily flight on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, flights are scheduled to operate from June 10^th to September 8^th. Air Arabia will operate a total of 266 flights offering 44.688 seats. During the peak of summer season Sarajevo Airport will be served with 35 weekly flights from three airports in United Arab Emirates.

• Flydubai will offer 21 weekly flights between Dubai (DXB) and Sarajevo
• Air Arabia will offer 10 weekly flights between Sharjah (SHJ) and Sarajevo
• Wizz Air will offer 4 weekly flights between Abu Dhabi (AUH) and Sarajevo

During April-October period Sarajevo Airport will be served from United Arab Emirates with a total of 1.062 flights, offering 198.792 seats, making it second most served country from Sarajevo, right after Türkiye.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈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

✈Wizz Air to increase Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo flights to daily

Wizz Air is increasing Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo flights from four weekly to daily from March 26, 2023. Last year Wizz Air introduced two weekly flights between two cities, increasing to four weekly just three months after the first flight. Due to increased demand flights will go daily from the beginning of summer timetable. Wizz Air operates this route with an Airbus 321 neo aircraft offering 239 seats. From April 1st to October 31st Wizz Air will operate a total of 426 flights, offering 101.814 seats. Abu Dhabi-Sarajevo distance is 3.934 kilometers or 2.444 miles, with an average flight time of 5 hours and 30 minutes.

Source: Z.K. @flyingbosnian

✈ Air Arabia schedules Sarajevo flights from March

Air Arabia has scheduled Sharjah-Sarajevo flights beginning March 30, this is three months earlier when compared to the previous years. The airline will operate three weekly flights on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from March 30, to June 29. From July 01, flights will increase to daily until September 10. From September 14 to October 29 flights will operate three times a week.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈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

✈Air Arabia inaugurated flights from Abu Dhabi to Sarajevo

Today, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi inaugurated flights from Abu Dhabi to Sarajevo with an Airbus 320 aircraft. Flights are scheduled to operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays until September 11, 2021. Abu Dhabi joins Sharjah as second destination for the airline to be served from Sarajevo Airport.

✈ 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

✈ Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 at Sarajevo Airport!

 

Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 (reg. A6-BLL) landed today at Sarajevo International Airport. Flight EY2163 from Abu Dhabi (AUH), landed in Bosnian capital city at 13:00 after 5hour 30 minutes flight from UAE. After 90 minutes on the ground, beautiful Dreamliner took of from Sarajevo Airport at 14:24 for a flight back to its home base in Abu Dhabi. Thank you Amer Varesanovic for providing me with these beautiful photos of this majestic airplane at Sarajevo Airport!

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Air Arabia Abu Dhabi to launch Sarajevo flights!

 

Air Arabia will launch its second destination from the United Arab Emirates to Sarajevo. The airline will launch three weekly flights from Abu Dhabi to Sarajevo on June 21, 2021, flights will operate on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays with Airbus 320 aircraft. This is second destination for Air Arabia to be operated from Sarajevo, the airline maintains summer seasonal flights from Sharjah.

Air Arabia Abu Dhabi was formed following the agreement by Etihad Airways and Air Arabia to establish an independent joint venture company that will operate as a low-cost passenger airline with the Abu Dhabi International Airport as its hub. The new carrier is complementing the services of Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi and catering to the growing low-cost travel market segment in the region.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Air Arabia to resume Sarajevo flights in May

Due to increased demand Air Arabia is resuming Sharjah-Sarajevo service two months earlier. The airline originally planned to restart Sarajevo flights in the first week of July but due to high interest for the flights, Air Arabia is starting Sarajevo flights on May 07, 2021. Flights will operate three times weekly until July 05, going daily from July 05, until September 05.  

Air Arabia Sharjah (SHJ) - Sarajevo (SJJ) schedule

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Attractive packages for tourists from the UA Emirates

 

Flydubai Boeing 737-800 landing at Sarajevo International Airport

Tourist community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.

This has been arranged in a joint meeting held in Sarajevo, which was attended by the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United Arab Emirates Šerif Mujkanović, representatives of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo and the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs as well as representatives of Sarajevo International Airport and the travel agency Bosnia Travel.

At this point of the pandemic, citizens of the United Arab Emirates have visa-free regime, without any additional requirements, what made the participants of the meeting that an additional attention should be directed towards the tourists from the UAE in the upcoming period.

It has been agreed, that the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo in cooperation with the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina would organize the arrival of leading tour operators, bloggers and representatives of media from the United Arab Emirates in Sarajevo. The ambassador Mujkanović will provide help in relation to discussions with tour operators and bloggers from the UAE and he will arrange specific cooperation activities between them and the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and domestic travel agencies.

According to the arrangement, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs, and the travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.

As of January 1st  2021, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo will open tourist info center at Sarajevo International Airport and set conditions so that every guest – tourist is adequately informed on tourist potentials of the Canton Sarajevo, destinations and other information in relation to the pleasant stay in Sarajevo and the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo International Airport will, in accordance with its possibilities and authorizations, create all necessary requirements regarding the reception and the flow of the UAE tourists at the airport.

Based upon the statistical data of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the tourists from the UAE visited the Canton Sarajevo quite significantly during the period of 2019 and 2020. There were more than 5.000 tourists from the UAE in 2020 for a period of ten months, with 25.000 overnight stays. The number of arrivals exceeded a number of 25.000 in 2019, with more than 90.000 overnight stays.

Currently Flydubai is offering four weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. From March 1st 2021 Flydubai will offer daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, increasing to two daily flights from the beginning of May 2021.

Source: Sarajevo International Airport

✈Sarajevo - Persian Gulf region summer 2020 network

Gulf region destination map from Sarajevo

Sarajevo International Airport will see another solid year when comes to connectivity to countries in Persian Gulf region. The airport will see Kuwait Airways launching flights from Kuwait City and flynas from Gassim. Flynas will significantly increase number of flights from Riyadh and Jeddah, extending flying season to the end of September. Flydubai is the only airline from the Gulf region that will see major flight decreases, due to the fleet shortage caused by grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. 

Last summer season Flydubai operated three daily flights from Dubai to Sarajevo, while this summer season the airline will operate only one daily flight from Dubai to Sarajevo. Flydubai flights are operated in cooperation with Emirates, offering wide range of connections on Emirates network out of Dubai. 

FlyBosnia will operate same number of destinations in Persian Gulf region as it did last year. Riyadh is the only destination with less flights when compared to the last year. Last year, FlyBosnia operated daily flights from Sarajevo to Riyadh from mid-June to the end of September, while this summer season the airline will operate three weekly flights from June 03, to September 06.

Due to Corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak, changes to flight schedules and flight cancellations are very likely.

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

✈Sarajevo Airport, 2017 passenger numbers by destination

Throughout the last year, Sarajevo Airport has added record 119.003 passengers, representing an increase of 14 % compared to 2016. The airlines from Star Alliance are dominating at the airport with 60% passengers share. The largest market for air travel from and to Sarajevo in 2017 was Turkey with 36% share (or 345.307 passengers), followed by Germany with 14% share (or 136.612) and Austria with 14% share (or 130.313 passengers). In third place is United Arab Emirates with 11% share (or 105.479 passengers). 

The table below displays the number of passengers by the airline and destination.

• Atlas Global, Istanbul-Sarajevo, started 22.06.2017. (discontinued 21.12.2017)
• Flydubai, Sarajevo-Podgorica, started 01.11.2017. (discontinued 25.03.2018)
• Nesma Airlines, Riyadh-Sarajevo, started 23.06.2017.
• TUI fly Belgium, Charleroi-Sarajevo, started 31.03.2017. (discontinued 25.10.2017)
• Qatar Airways, Doha-Sarajevo started 01.11.2017.
• Wataniya Airways, Kuwait City-Sarajevo, started 13.07.2017. (discontinued 01.09.2018)
• Wizz Air, Budapest-Sarajevo, started 05.04.2017.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Emirates announces Flydubai Sarajevo code-share flights

Emirates and flydubai partnership announces first code-share routes

• With the start of the partnership, Emirates will codeshare on 29 routes operated by flydubai
• Passengers can book from 03 October with travel commencing on 29 October
• Reach more destinations easily, frequently and quickly

Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 02 October 2017: Following the commencement of their partnership, Emirates and flydubai today announced that Emirates will expand its network to 29 flydubai destinations across three continents.

The new partner network, through its codeshare, will offer greater frequency and easier access to more global destinations with the advantage of connecting baggage to the final destination.  Passengers can book from 03 October on Emirates.com, through the Emirates Contact Centres or the travel agents network with travel commencing from 29 October 2017.

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Group and Chairman of flydubai, said, “This is an exciting first step in unlocking the benefits of the partnership for passengers who will have the opportunity to enjoy the unique advantages each airline offers as well as greater choice and flexibility when connecting via Dubai. This is just the start and as we expand the partner network in the coming months we will open up more opportunities for our passengers to explore the world.”

Throughout the customer journey Emirates and flydubai will deliver a product experience reflective of their unique brand characteristics.  When booked together, as part of the codeshare, Emirates passengers will receive complimentary meals and the Emirates checked baggage allowance on flights operated by flydubai in both Business and Economy Classes.

Connecting in Dubai’s aviation hub offers a smooth transfer experience and under the new partnership passengers will benefit from a reduced minimum connection time (MCT) between Emirates’ home in Terminal 3 and flydubai’s in Terminal 2 of 120 minutes. 

Today’s announcement is an initial phase of the extensive agreement that will, in future phases, see the creation of additional city pair connections as the codeshare agreement is expanded and both airlines’ networks are optimised. 

More benefits for frequent flyers

In this first phase of the partnership, Emirates Skywards members can earn Skywards miles and Skywards Tier Miles on codeshare flights as per the existing Skywards mileage programme. 

In addition to the Emirates free checked baggage allowance, Skywards Premium members can also enjoy their extra checked baggage allowances of 20kg (Platinum members), 16kg (Gold members) and 12kg (Silver members) on codeshare flights operated by flydubai.

Skywards Silver, Gold and Platinum members travelling on codeshare flights can access flydubai’s Business Check-in counters and receive priority tags.

Further benefits for members of each airlines’ frequent flyer and loyalty programmes will be announced in due course.

Emirates and flydubai partnership codeshare destinations 

• Asmara (Eritrea)
• Belgrade (Serbia)
• Kiev Zhulyany (Ukraine)
• Juba (South Sudan)
• Krasnodar (Russia)
• Samara (Russia)
• Kazan (Russia)
• Mineralnye Vody (Russia)
• Odessa (Ukraine)
• Prague (Czech Republic)
• Rostov-on-Don (Russia)
• Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
• Skopje (Macedonia)
• Sofia (Bulgaria)
• Tbilisi (Georgia)
• Kuwait (Kuwait)
• Baku  (Azerbaijan)
• Lucknow (India)
• Ahwaz (Iran)
• Bandar Abbas (Iran)
• Esfahan (Iran)
• Lar (Iran)
• Shiraz (Iran)
• Najaf (Iraq)
• Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
• Muscat (Oman)
• Salalah (Oman)
• Yekaterinburg (Russia)
• Bucharest (Romania)

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 expands Sarajevo flights in S18!

Flydubai in summer 2018 season is expanding service to Sarajevo, as the airline introduces daily Dubai-Sarajevo flights from 26. March 2018. Dilly flights will be operated in codeshare with Emirates. During peak summer season Flydubai will operate double daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ 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

✈ Air Arabia is temporary suspending flights to Sarajevo

From April 09. to June 22. Air Arabia is suspending Sharjah-Sarajevo flights. Even though Air Arabia planned to suspend  flight during the month of Ramadan, this suspension is coming earlier than planned. Early flight suspension is due to fierce competitions from Flydubai, who is operating two daily and on some days three daily flights from Dubai main airport to Sarajevo. Air Arabia is in disadvantage to operate flights from Sharjah Airport, offering very little possibility for connecting flights. Emirates is selling Flydubai flights to connect on Emirates world wide network. During the Holy Month of Ramadan, Flydubai is also reducing flights to Sarajevo to two flights per week. From June 22^nd both airlines will drastically increase flights to Sarajevo, operating daily. If bookings are exceeded Flydubai will add additional flights to Sarajevo.

AIRLINE	ROUTE	DAYS	VALID FROM-TO
AIR ARABIA	SHARJAH-SARAJEVO	Daily	22.06-17.09.
FLYDUBAI	DUBAI- SARAJEVO	Daily	23.06.-18.09.

Source: Flying Bosnian