✈ 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

✈ 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

✈AJet to launch Istanbul-Tuzla flights

Turkish low-cost carrier AJet will connect Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport and Tuzla, with one weekly service starting October 07^h using an Airbus 321neo aircraft offering 211 seats. This will be the second airline serving Tuzla from Istanbul, after Pegasus Airlines announced the launch of flights from Istanbul to Tuzla last week.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Pegasus Airlines to launch Istanbul-Tuzla flights

Pegasus Airlines Airbus 320neo at Tuzla International Airport

Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines will connect Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport and Tuzla with one weekly service starting August 24^th. The flights are scheduled to operate on year-round basis with an Airbus 320neo aircraft offering 180 seats.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Record May for Sarajevo Airport

Sarajevo International Airport has recorded its busiest May by handling 151.152  passengers, representing an increase of 30,3% or 35.176 passengers more when compared to the same month of last year. Aircraft operations recorded an increase of 23%, while cargo grew by 10% . Year to date Sarajevo Airport handled 520.466 passengers, an increase of 30,1%. The month of June will see the introduction of new flights by Aegean Airlines from Athens, Scandinavian Airlines flights from Copenhagen and Air Arabia flights from Sharjah. From June 5^th to June 25^th Flynas will operate regular charter flights for Hajj from Medina.

Source: Zahid Krkić

✈Lufthansa to increase Frankfurt-Sarajevo!

Lufthansa launched Frankfurt-Sarajevo flights on May 03, 2021. At the beginning flights operated four times per week (Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday), increasing to daily from June of the same year. Since Lufthansa discontinued Munich-Sarajevo flights, Frankfurt has proven to be very popular, offering possibilities to connect to Lufthansa’s World network out of Lufthansa’s hub at Frankfurt Airport. With the start of summer timetable, beginning of April 2022, Lufthansa is increasing Frankfurt-Sarajevo flights from seven to 10 weekly. 

Lufthansa will have a split schedule to offer more flexibility on its long-haul connecting flights. Out of 10 weekly flights, four will arrive in Sarajevo at 10:30 pm, with the aircraft and crew staying overnight in Sarajevo, departing Sarajevo at 06:50 am the following day. At the beginning of operations Lufthansa operated an Airbus 319 aircraft, offering 126 seats, but due to flight’s popularity Lufthansa is upgrading  Frankfurt-Sarajevo route from April to an Airbus 320neo offering 154 seats.

Source: Z.K. @flyingbosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport: construction photo update

Radovi na proširenju zgrade terminala aerodroma Sarajevo, su u završnoj fazi i trenutno se izvode radovi na izgradnji novih jezgra za avionske mostove. Prvi od tri avionska mosta je dopremljen u Sarajevo tokom ove sedmice, i trenutno se radi na instalaciji istog na novoizgradjenom dijelu terminala.

Ugovor o nabavci tri avio mosta je potpisan u aprilu ove godine sa njemačko-španskom kompanijom THYSSENKRUPP AIRPORT SYSTEMS S.A u vrijednosti od 3,9 miliona maraka. Novi avio mostovi imaju unaprijeđen sistem za pristajanje aviona  (A-VDGS) Visual Docking Guidance Systems. Avio mostovi su stakleni, što će omogućiti prelijep pogled putnicima na platformu i avione tokom ukrcavanja/iskrcavanja iz aviona.

Izvor: Z.K. @flyingbosnian