✈ FlyBosnia statement in regard to operations restart

In regards to article published on this portal on December 23, 2021. with title "FlyBosnia plans to restart operation in March" FlyBosnia has issued following statement: 

"We have noticed that an article about alleged FLYBOSNIA flights in cooperation with the ISG Travel agency has been published on your portal. We would like to inform you that FLYBOSNIA does not currently cooperate with this agency and that this information is incorrect".

The information about FlyBosnia flights, was received directly from ISG Travel agency. We do apologize for the misinformation and any problems that it might cause. We are all aware of what happened and will take extra care in the future. Sincerely Flying Bosnian

✈ FlyBosnia plans to restart operation in March

FlyBosnia is planning to start flying again, this time the airline plans to operate flights from all four international airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Flights are scheduled to start from March 29 and will be operated with leased Airbus 320 aircraft. Ticket sales will start during January. Swiss Travel agency isgtravel.ch is already selling FlyBosnia tickets.

Following is planed FlyBosnia European schedule for Summer 2022

TUESDAY
ROUTE	DEPARTURE TIME	ARRIVAL TIME
Sarajevo-Geneva	13:00	14:50
Geneva-Mostar	15:40	17:40
Mostar-Geneva	18:15	20:00
Geneva-Sarajevo	20:45	22:20

 

WEDENSDAY
ROUTE	DEPARTURE TIME	ARRIVAL TIME
Sarajevo-Zurich	13:30	15:10
Zurich-Banja Luka	16:00	17:15
Banja Luka-Zurich	17:55	19:10
Zurich-Sarajevo	19:50	21:30

 

FRIDAY
ROUTE	DEPARTURE TIME	ARRIVAL TIME
Sarajevo-Zurich	12:00	13:40
Zurich-Mostar	14:30	16:20
Mostar-Zurich	17:00	19:00
Zurich-Sarajevo	19:50	21:30

 

SATURDAY
ROUTE	DEPARTURE TIME	ARRIVAL TIME
Sarajevo-Geneva	10:00	11:50
Geneva-Mostar	12:30	14:20
Mostar-Geneva	15:00	17:00
Geneva-Sarajevo	17:50	19:00
Sarajevo-Zagreb	19:50	20:30
Zagreb-Mostar	21:00	21:45

 

SUNDAY
ROUTE	DEPARTURE TIME	ARRIVAL TIME
Mostar-Zurich	06:30	08:20
Zurich-Tuzla	09:00	10:45
Tuzla-Zurich	11:30	13:00
Zurich-Sarajevo	13:40	15:10
Sarajevo-Zurich	16:00	17:45
Zurich-Mostar	18:30	20:30
Mostar-Belgrade	21:00	21:40
Belgrade-Sarajevo	22:15	23:00

 

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ FlyBosnia leases an Airbus 321

FlyBosnia has leased its second aircraft, an Airbus 321-200 from Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly. The aircraft is 22 years old, with registration CS-TRJ, configured with 153 seats (F4-C12-Y137). FlyBosnia operated this year’s first revenue flight on June 17, 2021. from Sarajevo to Hurghada in Egypt using Hi Fly’s Airbus 321 aircraft. Same aircraft is scheduled to operate its second revenue flight for FlyBosnia today as flight HFY0371 from Sarajevo to Riyadh. Currently FlyBosnia has two aircraft in its fleet, an Airbus 320 (reg. TC-OBU) leased from Onur Air and Airbus 321 (reg. CS-TRJ) leased from Hi Fly.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport see strong summer bookings

• The airlines are responding to strong demand for Sarajevo travel, by increasing flights and capacity. Just today we published one new route from Gulf region to Sarajevo, Gulf Air’s new two weekly service from Bahrain to Sarajevo.

✈ Strong demand for air travel from Gulf countries to Sarajevo!

All airlines flying from Gulf countries to Sarajevo are recording extraordinarily strong demand for air travel to Sarajevo. At the beginning of the year the airlines were selling limited number of flights, but with the vaccines roll out and Covid cases under control in Bosnia, tourists from Gulf countries are returning in big numbers. Strong demand for vacationing in Bosnia has created many new flights between Gulf countries and Sarajevo.

From June 1^st FlyBosnia will fly two daily flights between Sarajevo and Riyadh. Flynas will maintain daily flights between two cities as well. During summer season Riyadh will have three daily flights from Sarajevo, making it most frequent route out of Sarajevo. Gulf destinations will definitely lead Sarajevo Airport to recovery from Covid-19 pandemic.

Two more airlines from Kuwait have applied for permit to operate flights from Kuwait City to Sarajevo, Kuwait Airways plans to introduce two weekly Kuwait–Sarajevo flights on June 07^th. Also, Jazeera Airways plans to launch Kuwait–Sarajevo flights on June 07^th with two weekly flights. Both airlines are waiting for approval from Kuwait Civil Aviation Authority for flight introduction. All Kuwait-Sarajevo flights are sold by the travel agencies with advanced bookings, even with approval coming late, the flights are already pre-booked.

Qatar Airways has postponed Sarajevo flight resumption until October, but this is a major mistake by the airline, since every single airline flying from that region is having remarkably successful summer.

The Gulf region-Sarajevo market is huge with solid growth year after year. The market has matured enough for Emirates to start its own flights, with two daily flights from Dubai in summer and at least 3 weekly flights during winter months.

Saudia Airlines is another strong contender for introduction of daily Sarajevo flights from Riyadh from March to October and 3 weekly flights during winter. Flights from Jeddah and Dammam could work as well.

In the future we will definitely see following airlines launching flights to Sarajevo: Gulf Air from Bahrain, Oman Air from Muscat, and Wizz Air from Abu Dhabi.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Sarajevo International Airport - Summer timetable analysis

Sarajevo International Airport is expecting to start its recovery from next month with Wizz Air opening its base at the airport with nine new European routes. 

Also, FlyBosnia is restarting itsoperations with eight routes from Sarajevo. Majority of FlyBosnia flights will cater for tourists from Gulf region visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina. FlyBosnia flights from Bahrain, Doha, Gassim, Jeddah, Kuwait City and Riyadh are pre-booked by travel agencies specializing in vacation packages to Bosnia. The other two FlyBosnia routes from Sarajevo, Antalya and Hurghada are pre-booked by Bosnian travel agencies for Bosnians vacationing in Turkey and Egypt. 

From June 21^st Air Arabia is introducing its second route from Sarajevo, Abu Dhabi will be served three times weekly. The airline will also operate daily flights from Sharjah to Sarajevo. United Arab Emirates will be connected with Sarajevo from Abu Dhabi (AUH) 3x weekly, Dubai (DXB) 14x weekly and Sharjah (SHJ) 7x weekly. 

Three airports from Saudi Arabia will have direct connections with Sarajevo this summer season, Gassim 2x weekly flights, Jeddah 6x weekly and Riyadh 13x weekly flights. 

As we reported earlier this month for the first time in its history Sarajevo will have direct flight to the United States. Easter Airlines will operate one weekly flight between Chicago (ORD) and Sarajevo, using 238 wide-body Boeing 767-200ER aircraft. For the first time ever Sarajevo Airport will have direct flights to cities on four continents, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Total of 38 routes with 33 airports in 20 countries will be offered from Sarajevo this summer season (19 in Europe, 12 in Asia, 1 in Africa and 1 in North America). During the peak summer months, the airport will have 153 weekly departures. See tables bellow for detailed timetable analysis.

✈ FlyBosnia has received its first Airbus A320 aircraft

Photo credit : @approach.sarajevo

The aircraft with Turkish registration TC-OBU is 24 years old owned by Onur Air, with Manufacturer’s serial number 661, made its first flight on April 02, 1997. The aircraft was previously operated by Aero Lloyd, America West Airlines, US Airways, Avio Nova and Onur Air. Current aircraft seating configuration is 180 passengers in all economy class. Fly Bosnia is expected to announce its route network any day, but mostly the aircraft will be used for charter flights to Turkey and Egypt.

Photo credit : @approach.sarajevo

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈ Sarajevo Airport flights resumption schedule

Next couple of months will see many airlines resuming Sarajevo service and many will introduce new destinations, linking Sarajevo with record number of destinations. The month of April will see three route resumptions (two routes by Eurowings to Cologne and Stuttgart and one by Swiss Air Lines to Zurich). The month of May will see eleven new routes being launched (nine by Wizz Air, one by Lufthansa to Frankfurt and one buy AnadoluJet to Antalya). The month of June will see three new routes being launched  (two by FlyBosnia to Bodrum and Hurghada, and one by AnadoluJet to Bodrum, and three route resumptions ( all three by Norwegian Air to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm). FlyBosnia is expected to announce its summer network on May 07, 2021. with new flights to Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. With addition of FlyBosnia network Sarajevo Airport will be connected with record 31 destination in 19 countries.

Source: Flying Bosnian