Photos from Banja Luka International Airport, taken by Mirza SM, on Wizz Air flight Malmo-Banja Luka (December 24, 2021). The flight was operated by Wizz Air Hungary, Airbus 321, registration HA-LXS. The flight was 95% full, with 225 passengers on board.
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Source: Flying Bosnian
Last month Tuzla Airport recorded 21.600 passengers, representing an increase of 127% when compared to the same month of 2020. The airport was 39% (or 13.884 passengers) down compared to pre-pandemic November in 2019. The January-November period airport handled 273.526 passengers, representing an increase of 27% when compared to the same time of the last year. Passenger’s traffic is 50% down compared to record 2019 when Tuzla Airport handled 593.083 passengers.
Next month Sarajevo International
Airport is expecting to reach passenger numbers of pre-pandemic traffic of December
2019. Total of 13 airlines will serve the airport with 29 routes across Europe,
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and
United Arab Emirates.
Wizz Air will station second
Airbus 320 at the airport, introducing seven new routes from Bosnian capital to:
Billund, Cologne, Frankfurt-Hahn, Hamburg, Malmo, Oslo-Sandefjord and
Venice-Treviso. With the fleet of two Airbus 320 aircraft based at the airport,
Wizz Air will position itself as Sarajevo Airport busiest airline, offering 46.620 seats on 254 flights to seventeen
destinations during December.
Also, next month Flydubai will be boosting its
flight offerings from Dubai to 58 flights with 10.092 seats on sale. Swiss
International Airlines will increase its service from Zurich from 16 flights in
November to 26 in December, boosting its seats offering to 3.250 seats.
The city with the most frequencies out of Sarajevo is Istanbul with 20 weekly flights, followed by Vienna with 13 weekly flights. Countries with largest number of seat offers from Sarajevo are Turkey, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria and Sweden.
With Flynas, Gulf Air and Swiss
International Airlines extending its flight operating during winter months Sarajevo
Airport is on the right track to reach
2019 numbers next year, when airport handled record number of 1.143.680
passengers. According to Eurocontrol
projections, majority of European airports are expected to reach pre-pandemic
(2019) numbers in the year 2025, while Sarajevo Airport will reach 2019.
numbers in upcoming year 2022.
During the month of December, the
airlines operating at Sarajevo Airport have scheduled 858 flights, with 127.546
seats on sale. The airport is expecting to handle 75.000 passengers in
December.
Source: Flying Bosnian
Gulf Air will reintroduce two weekly flights from Bahrain International Airport (Manama) to Sarajevo on December 15, 2021. The flights are scheduled as regular charters and will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays with Airbus 320neo aircraft. The airline initially started Sarajevo flights in June of this year, as summer seasonal, but due to increased demand for tourist visits from Bahrain to Bosnia, Gulf Air will now operate flights as year-round.
Last week Flynas has decided to upgrade its Sarajevo service
to year-round from both Riyadh and Jeddah. During spring and summer months Bosnia
and Herzegovina is very popular tourist destination from countries in the Gulf
region, but due to opening of many new hotels and resorts, and promotion of the
country as year-round destination, the airlines are seeing very strong demands and
upgrading seasonal flights to year-round. With the introduction of extra flights
from Gulf countries, Sarajevo Airport will start reaching pre-pandemic passenger numbers in December.
This winter season Sarajevo will be connected with following
destinations in Gulf region:
For upcoming summers season 2022. Air Arabia has already
scheduled Sharjah-Sarajevo flights resumption three months earlier than usual. The
service is scheduled to resume on March 30, 2022. with three weekly flights,
increasing to daily from July.
Source: Flying Bosnian
Due to very successful summer season Flynas has upgraded its summer seasonal service between Riyadh, Jeddah and Sarajevo to year-round operations. During winter timetable, Flynas will operate three weekly flights between Riyadh and Sarajevo, and two weekly flights between Jeddah and Sarajevo. Riyadh-Sarajevo flights will operate via Tirana.
Banja Luka International Airport will see its busiest winter
ever. With two European largest low-cost airlines serving airport with 13
destinations across European continent. Ryanair will serve seven destinations,
operating a total of 562 flights (244 arriving and 244 departing), offering
106.218 seats. Ryanair most frequent routes from Banja Luka during upcoming winter
season are Gothenburg, Frankfurt-Hahn and Vienna.
Wizz Air will base its second Airbus A320 at Sarajevo Airport from December 14, 2021. and introduce seven new destinations from the city. During winter timetable the airline has scheduled 1.388 flights (694 departing and 694 arriving ), offering 249.840 seats. The route with most flights is Dortmund, followed by Memmingen and Gothenburg.
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.
Wizz Air announced today the allocation of second aircraft
to its Sarajevo base. The Airbus A320 will join the fleet in December 2021,
enabling the start of 7 new routes from Sarajevo to Billund, Cologne, Frankfurt-Hahn,
Hamburg, Malmo, Oslo-Sandefjord and Venice-Treviso. All new routes will operate
twice per week except Cologne and Malmo which will operate three times per
week.
