Bosnia and Herzegovina to stay without a fifth airport
For the past two years, local authorities in Trebinje have claimed that they will build Bosnia and Herzegovina’s newest airport. However, the project has been cancelled. Local authorities say that they failed to find a party interested in participating in the construction together with the government of the entity of Republika Srpska, despite initial interest from a Chinese corporation. The Government of Republika Srpska has spent 1.6 million Convertible Bosnian Marks (820.000 Euros) for the Trebinje Airport project documentation. It envisaged for the airport to handle up to 250.000 passengers per year. Within a 120 kilometre radius from Trebinje there are airports in Dubrovnik, Mostar, Tivat and Podgorica.Bosnia and Herzegovina currently has a total of 4 international airports – Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla and Banja Luka and most are struggling, both financially and passenger wise, with Sarajevo being the only exception. The 4 airports handled a total of 42.151 passengers in March 2011. While Sarajevo saw 40.803 passengers, it was followed by Mostar with 696 passengers, Banja Luka with 640 and Tuzla at a distant 4th place with a total of 12 passengers handled in March.
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The real question has to be what is wrong with OMO, the closest facility in BiH to Trebinje. As an airport facility, it is reasonable, but is unable to attract regular flights, by either full-service airlines or LCCs.
And to think that OMO beat BNX despite having no regular lines serving the airport during the previous month!
@ Peter
40K pax for an airport serving a city of just 300,000 (ok, maybe 1/2m if you include an hours drive around) in the low season isn't bad, and is the best figures have been for that airport in many years!
Does make you wonder if JA had its act together with decent scheduling, advertising and operations (including that 2nd 319 - is that ever going to arrive?) if that number would in fact be double?
Why should Trebinje have so much potential? And where is the investment you are tolking about??
Now the 1.6 milion is in some hands, maybe in dodik's mafia corporation.
How long will you allow certain people to post under offending nicks and to continue to poison atmosphere here?
So if Bosnia and Hercegovina has potential even though it has 4 airports and a national carrier, then that means Macedonia is a gold mine? Two airports no flag carrier 100,000 more pax a year.
Only if I could stay me own carrier now! haha
The only future Dodik cares about is the future of his own wallet. He controls the media and keeps people blind to his wealth building. The people suffer, the politicians get rich, yet the votes keep coming.