✈Sarajevo Airport statistics for February

AlbaStar 737-400 operating EYOF charter flight Milan-Sarajevo

Last month Sarajevo Airport returned to growth, thanks to the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival being held in the city from February 9-16. This event has helped the airport to achieve over 50.000 passengers in February (February is well known as the weakest month for air travel. 46 national Olympic Committees sent a total of 911 athletes. Day before the opening of the Festival Sarajevo Airport received seven charter flights from:  Basel, Helsinki, Moscow, Minsk, Milan, Prague and Vienna, Total of 2.500 passengers were handled day before and day after the event.

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA

✈FlyBosnia signed a letter of intent for three A319 aircraft!

FLYBOSNIA is pleased to announce that it has signed a letter of intent for an additional three Airbus A319 Aircraft, to be delivered progressively over coming quarters. These aircraft will enable FLYBOSNIA to progressively expand destination coverage as it builds to a planned fleet of eight aircraft by 2023.

FlyBosnia Captain Mr. Nahidin Mujezinovic

"We have made significant progress in confirming airport slots in preparation for the upcoming launch of scheduled flights and are also working to confirm select charter flights from the numerous charter requests we have received to date", said Chris Gabriel, CEO of FLYBOSNIA. "We are currently recruiting a further crew and ramping up training to ensure we deliver on our promise to connect Bosnia and Herzegovina with select destinations in Europe and the Middle East via direct flights."

FlyBosnia cabin crew

"From the time of booking your travel to the moment of you return home, it is our mission to make your travel experience unforgettable.”

Source: FlyBosnia

✈flydubai to deploy Boeing 737 MAX 9 to Sarajevo

flydubai Summer 2019 737 MAX 9 network as of March 01.2019.

flydubai in last week’s schedule update gradually filed planned Boeing 737 MAX 9 operation for summer 2019 season, effective 31MAR19. As of 01MAR19, planned 737 MAX 9 service in S19 as follows:

• Dubai – Almaty eff 31MAR19 1 daily
• Dubai – Bahrain eff 21JUL19 2-3 weekly (until 08SEP19)
• Dubai – Bucharest eff 31MAR19 1 daily (until 29MAY19)
• Dubai – Sarajevo eff 01JUUN19 10 weekly (7 weekly from 28JUN19; until 08SEP19)
• Dubai – Zanzibar eff 01JUL19 1 daily (until 30SEP19)
• Dubai – Zanzibar – Dar es Salaam eff 31MAR19 4 weekly (7 weekly from 30JUN19)

Source: Routes online

✈Qatar Airways hiring in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Current Opportunities

QR19543 - Commercial Manager | Qatar Airways | Sarajevo

Organisation:Qatar Airways

Job Function:Commercial

Division:Sarajevo - SJJ

Employment Type:Full Time - Permanent

City:Europe | Bosnia | Sarajevo

Last date of application:15-Mar-2019

Welcome to a world where ambitions fly high.

From experienced pilots to dynamic professionals embarking on new careers, Qatar Airways is searching for talented individuals to join our award-winning team.

We take pride in our people, a dynamic and culturally diverse workforce is essential to why we are one of the finest and fastest growing airlines in the world.

We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages.

About Your Job:

We are pleased to announce an incredibly exciting opportunity to join our Commercial team in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as Commercial Manager. 

As the Commercial Manager based in Sarajevo, you will add immediate value by providing overall leadership on a strategic and commercial level for all sales and other activities.  Reporting to the Country Manager you will develop and deliver revenue for Qatar Airways, maximizing the return from the existing market whilst identifying and penetrating new markets where appropriate. 

This role will enable you to further develop your expertise within a fast moving environment with exceptional opportunities for career progression. This represents a fantastic opportunity to join a fast paced environment in a leading Aviation group to contribute to our continued development and evolution.

Specific accountability include:

·         Contributing to the strategic direction of Qatar Airways Corporate/ Trade and Leisure sales and defining the optimal way to increase sales by recommendations for routes, timings, aircraft type and other product development.

·         Formulating and implementing regional sales strategy locally, including local corporate dealing policy, to maximize short and long term revenue opportunities, reduce cost of sale and generate channel shift where appropriate.

·         Responsible for identification of production of new business opportunities and the development of marketing strategies in the station.

·         Contributing to the production of local station sales and channel plan including revenue targets as a part of the integrated sales strategy.

·         Managing relationships with other Airlines, Trade bodies, Government and Civil Aviation Authorities and general public in the station.

·         Steering, leading and directing the station team to deliver corporate and commercial objectives and in such a way as to enhance employee motivation and satisfaction.

About You:

The successful candidate will have the following:

·         Bachelors degree.

·         A minimum of five years relevant experience ideally in an Airline or Travel industry with a strong corporate sales background.

·         Extensive people management experience, outstanding leadership and coaching skills with the ability to motivate, set clear deadlines and manage workflow.

·         Sound product knowledge and an understanding of market practices. 

·         Budgetary and planning experience.

·         Strong stakeholder management skills, excellent interpersonal skills and a ‘can do’ attitude.

Note: you will be required to attach the following:

1. Resume / CV

Follow this link to apply

✈COCKPIT VIEW | Sarajevo Airport | Scenic Mountain approach | Takeoff and Landing

Beautiful video filmed from a cockpit of a Lufthansa Airbus A319 on flight from Munich to Sarajevo and back! ENJOY !

Source: Youtoube/Cabin & cockpit 

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina air traffic report for JAN-19

Air traffic report for the first month of the year for all four international airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

SARAJEVO
TUZLA
BANJA LUKA
MOSTAR

Source: Flying Bosnian and BHDCA

✈Norwegian to launch Gothenburg-Sarajevo flights!

Norwegian Air is introducing new one weekly summer seasonal service from Gothenburg to Sarajevo, airline’s second destination from Sweden after Stockholm Arlanda which is served on year-round basis. Gothenburg-Sarajevo flights will run from June 21 to August 9. Total of 8 flights in each direction are scheduled offering 3.024 seats on board of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

GOT-SJJ

SJJ-GOT

Norwegian Air is reintroducing its service from Oslo to Sarajevo. This summer season Norwegian Air will operate a total of 31 flights in each direction (62 flights in total) offering 11.718 seats. Last year Norwegian operated a total of 70 flights between two cities, offering 13.230 seats in both directions. At first airline decided to discontinue the route altogether but after a plea from Bosnian Embassy in Norway the airline decided to restart service as summer seasonal from May 25 to October 26.

OSL-SJJ

SJJ-OSL

This summer season Norwegian Air will maintain one weekly flight between Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Sarajevo, representing a decrease over last year’s two weekly for whole summer schedule from April until October. Two weekly flights will be operated only during July.

ARN-SJJ

SJJ-ARN

Copenhagen-Sarajevo service will be operated with two round-trip flights in June, four in July and two in August.

CPH-SJJ

SJJ-CPH

Norwegian Air will serve four destinations from Sarajevo in Scandinavia this summer, record number for one airline since collapse of Air Bosna.

Source: Flying Bosnian

✈EYOF-2019 Sarajevo Charter Flights

FINNAIR A321 will arrive from Helsinki on Saturday (09.02.19)

For the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF-2019) Sarajevo airport will handle many charter flights starting today with Aeroflot’s Airbus 321 from Moscow. Passengers and aircraft traffic during month of February is considered one of the slowest in a whole year. Sarajevo airport will great many general aviation and private aircraft as well which will help to boost this month’s passengers numbers.

BELAVIA 737-500

CZECH AIR FORCE A319

AUSTRIAN AIRLINES A320

ALBASTAR B737-800

AEROFLOT A321

TUIfly B737-800

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA

✈The Olympic Flame returns to Sarajevo

After a four-day trip from Rome to Banja Luka, the Flame of Peace arrived in Sarajevo on February 02.2019. The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF-2019) welcome ceremony took place at Sarajevo International Airport. Thanks to FLYBOSNIA, the delegation landed at the airport on time and safely. FlyBosnia applied special livery for EYOF. The Airbus 319 made its first scheduled charter flight Sarajevo-Banja Luka-Sarajevo transporting EYOF-2019 delegation and official Flame of Peace  

FlyBosnia A319 at BNX

FlyBosnia A319 in-flight to SJJ

This is a festive moment for Bosnia and Herzegovina, bringing back good memories of unity and peace of 1984 Winter Olympics Games held in Sarajevo 35 years ago. The Flame of Peace will be lit at the "Asim Ferhatović Hase" Stadium, on February 10th, when the European Youth Olympic Festival will officially start. 

The ceremony of greeting the Flame of Peace was attended by members of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Šefik Džaferović and Željko Komšić, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić, and representatives of the Canton and City of Sarajevo, as well as numerous athletes.

Mayor of Sarajevo Abdulah Skaka said that he is proud that the Olympic torch is in Sarajevo again.

"I want our children to live the values ​​of the Olympic spirit. It is our obligation to create platforms, and EYOF is one of them. EYOF is an opportunity to jointly build some new, better and more positive times. I sincerely hope EYOF will awaken the Olympic spirit in our city", Skaka said.

Nenad Vuković, the mayor of the city of East Sarajevo, addressed the attendees.

"This is a great opportunity to show how we can do great things together. In the coming days, we will have the opportunity to send a positive image to 46 countries whose representatives will arrive in our country", said Vuković.

After the Mayors’ addresses, the Flame of Peace was presented to members of the Presidency, Džaferović and Komšić by Amar Barukčija, the winner of the gold medal for Bosnia and Herzegovina in basketball at EYOF, and Esma Alić, this year's EYOF participant.

"It is my great honor and pleasure to be here on a big day for our country Bosnia and Herzegovina. This sporting event helps Bosnia and Herzegovina and has a positive impact on the reputation of our country internationally", said Džaferović.

Željko Komšić said that it is a pleasure to be in this place and to be able to take part in such a big sporting event, the largest since the Winter Olympic Games in 1984. He wished good luck to the organizing committee and to all the people who are ready for the upcoming Festival.

Source:City of Sarajevo, EYOF-2019 and Flying Bosnian

✈Sarajevo Airport passengers decline in January

FlyBosnia A319 with EYOF-2019 Sarajevo sticker 

First month of the year Sarajevo Airport registered slight passengers decline of 1%. Airport recorded 10% decline in aircraft operations or 100 operations less then in January of last year. Even though airport recorded significant decline in aircraft operations, the airlines are using larger aircraft on its scheduled flights to/from Sarajevo compensating with aircraft with larger capacities. During month of January Turkish Airlines majority of its flights operated with Airbus 321, Austrian Airlines operated about 50% of its flights using Airbus 319 instead of much smaller Airbus 220, while Air Serbia used Airbus 319 twice to three times weekly. Croatia Airlines used Airbus 319 couples of times on its flights to Sarajevo during January too. 

Month of February should see solid increase in passengers due to Sarajevo hosting European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) from 09-16 February 2019. Total of 1.100 athletes will participate in the games from 46 national federations, many of them arriving by air using Sarajevo Airport.

Source: Flying Bosnian and SIA