✈ Free Bird Airlines charter flights from Tuzla to Antalya

Free Bird Airlines Airbus 320 at Tuzla Int. Airport

Tuzla International Airport will be connected with Antalya this summer with charter flight organized by Golden Tours travel agency. Tuzla-Antalya flights will be operated by Free Bird Airlines once per week, every Tuesday from June 14 to August 30, on board of an Airbus 320 with 180 seats. Total of 12 round trip flights from Tuzla are scheduled.

2016/Month	Flight dates	Total flights	Seats offered
June	14,21,28	3	1.080
July	05,12,19,26	4	1.440
August	02,09,16,23,30	5	1.800
		12 flights (round trip)	4.320

✈ Vienna Airport statistic for airports: Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje and Belgrade

Vienna as a city and its airport is one of the most popular destination from the countries in the region. Austria has strong influence and ties to the region. According to the last census data 5,1 % of total Austria’s population is born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. Precisely 155.050 people are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 132.553 from Serbia, 39.782 from Croatia, 22.430 from Macedonia, 19.663 from Slovenia. Data is not available for Kosovo and Montenegro. Vienna Airport is well connected to the airports in the region with Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Adria Airways and Air Serbia offering smooth and easy connection to destinations across European continent, United States of America, Canada and many other destinations in the world. Table below is showing number of passengers, flight and available seats from and to Vienna to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje and Belgrade airports. Full data is available for the year 2014 and first ten months of the year 2015(monthly report).

✈ Corendon Airlines Sarajevo-Antalya charter flights

Corendon Airlines is well known on Bosnian market for its charter flights from Sarajevo to Antalya. Like many times before during summer season, Turkish holiday airline will fly charter flights on behalf of Bosnian tourist agencies from Sarajevo to Antalya using Boeing 737-800 aircraft with capacity to seat 189 passengers. Total of 36 round trip flights are scheduled from May 30. to September 12, offering 13.608 seats in both directions.

Month	Dates	Total flights
May	30	1
June	06,10,13,17,20,24,27	7
July	01,04,08,11,12,15,18,19,22,25,26,29	12
August	01,02,05,08,09,12,15,16,19,22,26,29	12
September	02,05,09,12	4
		36
Corendon: Total 13.608 seats offered in both directions with Boeing 737-800

Source:FlyingBosnian

✈ Borajet Sarajevo-Antalya charter flights

On behalf of Bosnian tourist agencies (mostly Centrotours), Turkish privately owned regional  airline Borajet will operate charter flights Sarajevo-Antalya starting on June 08. 2016. Borajet will operate a total of 23 round trip flights between Sarajevo and Antalya. All flights are scheduled to operate with Embraer 190 aircraft, offering 100 seats.

Month	Flight dates	Total flights
June	08,15,22,29	4
July	06,10,13,17,20,24,27,31	8
August	03,07,10,14,17,21,24,28,31	9
September	04,07	2
		23
Borajet: Total 4.600 seats offered in both directions with ERJ-190

✈Fly Dubai is increasing Dubai-Sarajevo flights to double daily!

Due to very high demand, once again Fly Dubai has increased its flights from Dubai to Sarajevo, From July 07. 2016. to September 13.2016. Fly Dubai will operate double daily flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. With Air Arabia daily flights to Sharjah (SHJ) Sarajevo will be connected to United Arab Emirates with three daily flights during summer season. With huge increase in flights to United Arab Emirates, Sarajevo International Airport is expecting very busy summer, and number of passengers should reach all-time record high. In the months of July, August and September airport is expecting to have over 300.000 passengers.

Dubai (DXB)-Sarajevo (SJJ)

Flight	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
FZ 761	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈
FZ8761	✈	✈		✈	✈		✈

Total 12 weekly flights

Sarajevo (SJJ)-Dubai (DXB)

Flight	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
FZ 762	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈	✈
FZ8762	✈	✈		✈	✈		✈

Total 12 weekly flights

✈Possible Wizz Air flights from Sarajevo and Mostar!

There is great interest in the establishment of flights between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary, which would lead to a significant cooperation in the field of tourism and better economic cooperation between the two countries. Hungarian government offered  subsidies for Budapest-Sarajevo-Budapest flights,  expressing their willingness to support the sustainability of the line.

“After Tuzla, which remains our headquarters in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we intend to establish flights from Sarajevo, which is a very important destination for us. After that, we are also interested in investing in the Sarajevo Airport,” explained the Director of Wizz Air, József Ujhelyi, at a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Saša Dalipagić that was held yesterday in Sarajevo.

In addition to airports in Tuzla and Sarajevo,  Wizz Air intends to increase its presence on the Bosnian market in the future, which would mean their expansion to  Mostar International Airport as well.

Possible Wizz Air routes from Sarajevo are: Budapest, Copenhagen, Stockholm and destinations in Germany.

Source: FlyingBosnian and akta.ba

✈Tuzla Airport:more than 300.000 passengers expected in 2016!

The Government of  Tuzla County (Tuzla Kanton) adopted Operating Plan for  Tuzla International Airport for 2016, which includes increase in the number of passengers by 18 percent and significant investments in infrastructure. For the first two months of this year Tuzla Airport has handled 39.174 passengers, an increase of 56,60%. 

Apart from activities that are to be implemented regarding the increase in the volume of passenger traffic through the expansion of destinations in European countries, preparations for the launch of cargo traffic will also be intensified.

“The cargo traffic that has been planned earlier, should be realized in 2016 following the resolution of administrative issues. We intend to handle 74 cargo flights regarding the export of goods of animal origin, which will enable a significantly faster development of agriculture at the territory of the Tuzla County and the entire region. Negotiations with representatives of airlines from Turkey are in the final stage and should be completed with the signing of contracts very soon,” said Rifet Karasalihović, director of  Tuzla International Airport.

In comparison with 2015 when 259.074 passengers have been transported, the airport expects around 307.000 passengers or 18 percent increase in passengers using the airport  in 2016.

Karasalihović expects the greatest progress in case of investments in infrastructure. Planned works include:

1) Approach Light System (ALS) that will enable aircraft to  safely land and take off under the conditions of reduced visibility.

2) Implementation of the project of reconstruction of the access road to the airport, which is currently  in terrible condition.

Source: FlyingBosnian and faktor.ba

✈Sarajevo Airport passenger numbers increase in February and March

Photo by Kontrolaletenja.net

Sarajevo International Airport recorded passenger growth in February and March. Sarajevo Airport handled 53.438 passengers last month , registering its strongest March on the record.Over the past three months, Sarajevo Airport welcomed 137.213 passengers, an increase of +2,48% comparing to the same time last year. 

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SARAJEVO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 2016

	2015	Change %	+/-	2016	Change %	+/-
January	43.700	+21,00%	+7.586	41.208	-5,70%	-2.492
February	39.908	+12,62%	+4.473	42.567	+6,66%	+2.659
March	50.273	+9,79%	+4.484	53.438	+6,29%	+3.165
April	63.064	+11,39%	+6.453
May	80.143	+12,88%	+8.630
June	74.855	-0,16%	-121
July	89.319	+19,17%	+14.371
August	101.307	+14,35%	+12.716
September	79.120	+11,17%	+7.952
October	71.255	+9,88%	+6.411
November	51.793	+10,59%	+4.960
December	28.167	-34,61%	-14.912
Total	772.904	+8,87%	+63.003	137.213	+2,48%	+3.332

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