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Sarajevo Airport anticipates its busiest summer season on record, with twelve new routes announced and over 1.6 million seats on sale between March 31 and October 26. This summer, Ryanair makes its debut at the airport with six destinations, while Air Arabia and Aegean Airlines will restore their nonstop Sharjah and Athens flights after several years. Turkish carrier SunExpress, which enters Bosnia and Herzegovina’s market today with flights from Antalya, will commence operations from Izmir during the summer. Pegasus Airlines will grow its presence in Sarajevo with new flights from Antalya, while Saudi Arabia’s Flyadeal and SAS Scandinavian Airlines will launch seasonal services from Jeddah and Copenhagen. The majority of the new routes will be subsidised by the Tourism Association of the Sarajevo Canton. New routes from Sarajevo, summer 2024 DestinationAirlineLaunch dateCharleroiRyanair31.03.2024GothenburgRyanair31.03.2024BergamoRyanair31.03.2024MemmingenRyanair01.04.2024 London StanstedRyanair02.04.2024IzmirSunExpress21.04.2024AthensAegean Airlines01.06.2024AntalyaPegasus Airlines03.06.2024JeddahFlyadeal04.06.2024SharjahAir Arabia10.06.2024CopenhagenSAS03.07.2024ThessalonikiRyanair03.07.2024 This summer, Sarajevo Airport has a total of 1.636.428 seats on scheduled inbound and outbound flights combined. It represents a 30.3% increase on last summer, and a 14.3% improvement on 2022, which was its busiest summer to date, when Wizz Air maintained a base in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital. During the summer, Turkish Airlines will be the largest carrier with just over 200.000 seats, followed by its local rival Pegasus Airlines and then Austrian Airlines. New entrant Ryanair will be the sixth-largest airline based on available capacity with 96.178 seats, behind Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Flydubai. Out of all the airlines launching new routes to Sarajevo this year, Ryanair has the biggest aspirations for its future development in the city, aiming to carry 200.000 passengers during its first year of operations alone. “Ryanair is the only airline that can deliver rapid growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a stark contrast to competitor airlines who continue to cancel routes and reduce capacity”. Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer, Jason McGuinness, said recently. He added, “I think Sarajevo always presented a void in our network and we have always had the desire to fly out of Sarajevo, but the costs were too high. We have no interest in short-term agreements and deals. These new routes are just the beginning. During my discussions with the airport’s management and government ministers I said that Ryanair is here to grow. We want to expand in Sarajevo. Initially, we will not have a base in Sarajevo. When we establish a base, then we will directly employ technicians, pilots, and cabin crew. We are not at that stage yet, but we are working on it".Based on indirect passenger flow, the busiest unserved destinations out of Sarajevo, once the upcoming new routes are excluded, are Ankara, Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels.
EX-YU Aviation NewsBy: EX-YU Aviationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Title: Sarajevo Airport set for record summer with a dozen new routes
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Published Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000
