✈Tuzla Airport statistics for February 2020

Tuzla Airport new terminal building

Tuzla International Airport has registered strong growth during February, after it recorded negative results in January. Total of 36.438 passengers used the airport last month, representing an increase of 18,9% or 5.780 passengers more. Year to date airport recorded 71.626 passengers, an increase of 6,9% or 4.627 passengers more. Last month Wizz Air reintroduced its two-weekly service to Karlsruhe as year-round destination. In February, Wizz Air offered a total of 40.320 seats on 224 flights. Cabin load factor during February stood at 90,37%.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Record January for Sarajevo Airport

Sarajevo Airport has recorded its busiest January, since opening its doors 50 years ago. During the month of January, the airport has recorded 58.397 passengers, representing an increase of 9,18%, or 4.912 passengers more compared to the same month of the last year. Number of aircraft operations decreased by 4,27% from 819 to 784. Cargo handled increased by 9,16% from 167 tons in January of 2019 to 182,3 tons in January of 2020.

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA

✈Mostar Winter 2019-20

During Winter timetable Mostar Airport won’t see any major changes to its schedule. Only airline operating to/from Mostar during winter months is Croatia Airlines with two weekly flights from Zagreb. Croatia Airlines flights are subsidized by the Government of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hercegovina-Neretva County. 

FlyBosnia will operate charter flights from Italy to Mostar bringing Catholic pilgrims to Medjugorje. Majority of charter flights from Italy are scheduled around Christmas. 

During the summer, Bosnian media was reporting that Mostar Airport was holding talks with Ryanair about possible launch of flights to Mostar from Germany, Sweden and Poland. So far for the summer schedule of 2020 Eurowings has confirmed return of its seasonal service from Duesseldorf and Stuttgart. According to Mostar Airport Eurowings had very successful 2019 summer season by operating majority of its flights with 180 seats Airbus 320 aircraft, compared to year before when flights were not so popular due to operational aircraft being Dash 8-400 with 76 seats. Eurowings flights from/to Germany to Mostar are subsidezed by the Government as is the case with Croatia Airlines.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Banja Luka Winter 2019-20

Note: Stockholm Skavsta Airport code is NYO 

With the beginning of Winter timetable on Sunday October 27,  Banja Luka Airport will see flight increases from Belgrade by one weekly flight for a total of 3 weekly, operated by Air Serbia using ATR-72 aircraft offering 66 seats each way. Compared to the last winter Banja Luka will be connected with two weekly flights to Berlin by Ryanair.

Ryanair will also increase flights from both Memmingen and Stockholm to 3 weekly during Christmas and New Year’s holidays. From March 30. 2020, Banja Luka will be connected with two weekly flights to Vienna by Ryanair. 

With introductions of new flights by Ryanair and more flights by Air Serbia, Banja Luka airport is finally on the way to reach sustainability after many years of stagnations. In the near future we can see Ryanair opening a base at the airport and stationing one to two aircraft and open new routes to Germany, Greece and France.

Source:Flying Bosnian

✈Tuzla Winter 2019-20

Winter timetable for Tuzla Airport won’t bring any major changes when compared to the same time last year. Wizz Air is still only airline operating at the airport. 

With the beginning of winter timetable Wizzair is discontinuing its two weekly Vienna flights, but same time is extending Billund to year-round operations. All other flights will remain the same as last winter season.

Due to very incompetent people leading the airport, major airport projects are still not completed and are overdue by one year and longer. Terminal building is still not finished and for the airport that handles around half a million passengers a year its almost impossible to imagine that airport still doesn’t have luggage belts (instead, luggage is still carried manually from the airplanes to the customers at arriving hall)!?

The other major issue is constant delayed installation of landing lights (the airport director Rifat Karahasanovic is well know in Bosnian media for giving staged interviews presenting him self as a “big boss” and constantly giving false information about the airports future and ongoing projects). Transparency and responsibility are strange subjects for majority of Bosnian public companies and employees including the Governments on all levels  when only qualification for the job is being loyal to the ruling party where corruption and nepotism is a norm.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Winter 2019-20

The 2019/20 winter timetable enters into force on Sunday, October 27^th until March 28^th of 2020. Passengers will be able to fly from Sarajevo Airport to 14 destinations in 11 countries in Europe and Gulf region. 

The airlines will offer a total of 81 weekly departures, compared to the winter of the last year number of weekly departures has increased  by 2 weekly flights.

FlyBosnia is the new airline compared to the last winter with 2 weekly flights to London and Rome, each. During winter timetable FlyBosnia will also operate many charter flights to Italy and Ireland.

New flights this winter season  are offered by Eurowings  with two weekly Berlin Tegel-Sarajevo flights. Turkish Airlines will increase its flights from Istanbul New Airport to Sarajevo from 11 weekly to two daily.

During winter timetable of flights Lufthansa has increased capacity on its daily Munich-Sarajevo route, the airline will operate Airbus 320 aircraft instead of Embraer 195. Lufthansa Airbus 320 has capacity to seat 168 passengers, while Embraer 195 offers 112 seats.

Sarajevo Airport lost its connection to Ljubljana due to Adria Airways bankruptcy. Adria Airways operated daily flights between two cities

Number of available seats Winter 2018/19 vs. Winter 2019/20

	Winter 2018/2019	Winter 2019/2020	Change %
November	80.100	91.454	+14,17%
December	83.636	90.630	+8,36%
January	79.516	90.652	+14,00%
February	70.728	85.822	+21,34%
March	82.996	97.250	+17,17%
TOTAL	396.976	455.808	+14,82%

During Winter timetable 2019/20 number of available seats is 455.808, representing an increase of 15% or 58.832 seats more, compared to the same time of the last year.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈FlyBosnia inaugural flight Sarajevo - Rome!

FlyBosnia has organized a promotional trip for tour operators from Italy into Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will last for three days, aimed at presenting the beauty and diversity Bosnia and Herzegovina offers to all potential tourists and reasons why they should visit the country.

The promotional flight took off from Sarajevo Airport this morning at 7:15, arriving in Rome one hour later. Return of promotional flight is scheduled for October 20. Promotional trip organized by FlyBosnia will last three days (October 17-20) and its aimed at presenting the beauty and diversity Bosnia offers to all potential tourists and reasons why they should visit the country. Bosnia's promotional PR in Italy is Amra Silajdzic-Dzeko (the wife of Bosnian football player Edin Dzeko, currently playing for FC Roma), who has been living in Rome with her family for several years. Italian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Nicola Minasi is also supporting the idea of establishing Sarajevo-Rome flights, and he was present on inaugural flight today.

Rome is  the second European destination for FlyBosnia after the airline established a direct flights between Sarajevo and London in September of 2019.

Source: Flying Bosnian and Klix