EX-YU airports handle over 20 million passengers


Airports across the former Yugoslavia have handled over twenty million passengers during the first three quarters of 2017, with eight of them welcoming over a million travellers for the first time. Tivat joined the list in late September, while Podgorica Airport will follow suit and handle its millionth passenger in late November or early December. Among the former Yugoslavia's larger airports, Split, Ljubljana and Podgorica continue to be the fastest growing, with passenger numbers up over 20% during the Q1 - Q3 period, while Tuzla, Niš and Brač were the biggest gainers among the smaller airports in the region. The only airports with scheduled commercial flights to have seen their figures decline so far this year are Mostar, Rijeka and Banja Luka, although the latter posted growth in September for the first time this year.

EX-YU airport results, JAN - SEP 2017

AirportPAXChange (%)
Belgrade4.150.594 8.9
Split2.554.262 23.6
Zagreb2.365.992 11.2
Dubrovnik2.044.213 17.2
Pristina1.468.692 7.8
Skopje1.410.080 12.0
Ljubljana1.297.877 20.4
Tivat1.035.225 15.1
Podgorica834.554 20.3
Sarajevo796.261 13.8

Croatia's three busiest airports all handled over two million passengers so far this year, marking the first time they have managed to do so. Both Split and Dubrovnik have already surpassed their 2016 end-of-year result. Split Airport, which remains Croatia's busiest so far this year following a bumper summer season, could extend its lead over Zagreb in October due to a strong showing during the postseason. However, the Croatian capital is expected to overtake its counterpart in the last two months of the year. Pula and Zadar have also performed well in 2017, with the latter expected to welcome a record 580.000 travellers this year.

AirportPAXChange (%)
Pula558.720 34.7
Zadar524.959 16.8
Tuzla405.858 74.1
Niš242.337 271.6
Ohrid136.113 10.4
Rijeka127.132 5.4
Mostar38.223 20.2
Osijek32.440 26.1
Brač21.053 78.2
Banja Luka16.793 2.6
Mali Lošinj5.737 5.4

The passenger difference between nearby competitors Pristina and Skopje continues to shorten with less than 59.000 travellers setting the two apart, compared to over 75.000 in August. Both airports, managed by rival Turkish operators, have posted exceptional growth so far this year. TAV Macedonia told EX-YU Aviation News that Skopje Airport handled 186.450 travellers in September alone. Skopje Airport's General Manager, Alper Ersoy, said earlier this month, "The increase in passenger traffic continued in 2017, although at a slower pace during the first half of the year. However, following the introduction of four new routes from Skopje Airport, as well as a new season of flights from Ohrid, in the second half of the year, we again recorded double digit passenger growth. We expect to end this year with a solid increase in the total number of passengers". Pristina Airport noted, "We are willing to increase flight numbers and extend our network with additional routes, and we are using our incentive plan to attract airlines in order to catch this growth at a sustainable level".

Comments

  1. Anonymous09:03

    Nice results. Mark my words, next year top three airports will be:

    1. Belgrade
    2. Split
    3. Zagreb-Dubrovnik in a tight race

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    1. Anonymous09:07

      It is shaping up to be that way although Dubrovnik will stay behind ZAG.

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    2. Anonymous09:12

      All depends how W17 performs which I think will be good. Mind you Air Serbia still flies to DBV with the A319 so I suppose numbers are there to warrant this. Last year both SPU and DBV were cut much earlier.

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    3. Anonymous09:18

      If we look at today's arrivals we have:

      DBV with 22
      SPU with 28
      ZAG with 49

      However I think the number of seats offered is the same while SPU and ZAG might be the same since ZAG has a lot of regional jets and turboprops while SPU gets mostly high density A319s and A320s.

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    4. Anonymous09:18

      Next year Zagreb will be 2nd, and Split 3rd, it would still be 300.000 passengers to catch. But in 2019 Split will for sure be 2nd if Zagreb will not attract more LCC.

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    5. Anonymous09:20

      SPU is seeing more and more larger aircraft being scheduled to fly there due to space restrictions. No one expected their dominance over ZAG to last this long.

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    6. Anonymous11:52

      It will pass quite a few years, if ever for SPU/DBV to overtake ZAG, simply due to horrible seasonality. No matter how strong sumemer is, winter is dead. Same like DBV. ZAG on the other hand has OCT and beyond much, much livelier as it is not reliant solely on tourists.

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    7. If Croatia's tourism growth is as big next year as it was this year in percentage terms than Split will be very close to overtaking Zagreb next year. Split's dominance over Zagreb could continue for a few years but I think Zagreb will eventually take back top spot.
      Zagreb needs 15% average growth to stay ahead.

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    8. Anonymous17:07

      This year Croatian airport will have good season.

      Top 5 airports - My projection for 2017 (2018), [2019] {2020} in 000


      Zagreb: 3070, (3550), [4000], {4500}
      Split: 2850, (3200), [3550], {3850}
      Dubrovnik: 2350, (2700), [3000], {3250}
      Pula: 710, (800), [900], {1000}
      Zadar: 620, (700), [800], {850}

      Zagreb will dominate the airport traffic post 2020, with airport handling 7.5-8 million in 2025, 10.5-12 million in 2030.

      Cargo volume is also growing at fast rate, I expect it'll hit 20 000 tons in 2020, and 50 000 ton by 2030.

      Zagreb needs to play smartly this one, get low cost operators only when you have legacy solid market share.

      No to Wizz and Ryan Air must be the policy !!!

      Revenue must go up, from present €158.6 million to €320 million in 2020. Profits too!!!

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    9. Anonymous18:19

      Why don't you start a blog or website called My Predictions For Croatian Airports? You will get millions of happy visitors and the rest of us will continue to enjoy this site.

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    10. Anonymous18:56

      @Q400

      Chinese visitor numbers are really good, so far 143000 visited Croatia.

      http://www.mint.hr/default.aspx?id=42938


      Next year 200-250 000 Chinese visitors are expected to visit Croatia.

      10-16 years ago, we'd never think Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Canadian, US and other non-EU visitors will play such important role, now over 2.5 million non-EU/European visitors visit Croatia, next year that number will be over 3 million and by 2020, could be as high as 5 million.

      You can bet direct links with Japan, China, India, S. Korea, Canada and US in not to distant future, perhaps even by 2020.

      Number of Brazilian visitors is up, some 70 000 are expected to visit Croatia this year.
      Number of Indian visitors too, 60-64000 expected to visit this year, at least 200 000 in 2020 from both nationalities.

      Countries, 15 years ago we never thought tourist would be interesting in coming.

      Croatia is starting to get awake, economy is doing well, exports are growing @double digit rate, budget deficit is minuscule, and unemployment is bellow 9%.

      Investment in innovation, education, and public services comes next. Things are looking up.

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    11. When everything is so rosy how do you explain the fact that Croatia ha highest decrease in population in has 2-3 years.

      I love that you are so upbeat about your homeland but get realistic a little bit

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    12. Anonymous20:24

      @SM

      100-150 000 Croats left for EU, which resulted in unemployment going down from 300 000 down to 170-200 000 peak unemployment. But many are returning back now, as economy has picked up.

      Croatia had 6 year recession which ended in 2015, economy is now growing at good pace. Things are looking up. Investments in to new tech and hi tech is really important. Export must recover to 40-50% of Country's GDP, which atm is around 374 billion kuna, or €50.5 billion.

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    13. I wish you can support the notion that people are returning but stats rarely lie. Croatia lost 30K people last year, actually about 45K left,mostly young and educated. That's the size of a smaller city. And don't get me wrong Serbia, BiH are no better. That's the real problem that'll take years to recover from.

      https://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/dzs-nastavlja-se-pad-broja-stanovnika-hrvatske-stanovnistvo-i-dalje-stari---489118.html

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    14. Anonymous21:08

      can someone explain me how SPU will have still 20% growth next year?
      I know that'll be 24 hour ops at SPU, but until now I didn't saw any flight operating in the night hours.. (24-06)?

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    15. Anonymous21:34

      I am still waiting for those predictions to come true from a few years ago.

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    16. Decline of population happened and it still is happening for the most of eastern European countries, especially after entering the EU. Just look how many Poles left Poland.
      Nothing's rosy here, but it's slowly looking up.

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  2. Anonymous09:04

    So 9 airports over a million in 2017. Nice. Sarajevo should be handling a million next year too.

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  3. Anonymous09:04

    I didn't believe it but Split overtaking Zagreb is a real possibility in 2018. I don't think it had ever been in front for so long during the year.

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  4. Anonymous09:06

    "The passenger difference between nearby airport competitors Pristina and Skopje continues to shorten with less than 59.000 travellers setting the two apart, compared to over 75.000 in August."

    This is getting quite exciting. Can SKP manage to overtake PRN by the end of the year?

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    1. Anonymous09:10

      I don't think it's possible this year but if there are no major surprises it will in 2018.

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    2. Anonymous09:17

      It is highly likely that Wizz will open a base in Pristina next year so don't count on SKP overtaking it.

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    3. Anonymous09:22

      Wizz Air will not be opening a base in PRN before having a considerable presence first which it doesn't have.

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    4. Anonymous10:45

      PRN will be ahead of SKP by 20k due to a traditionally strong December

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  5. Anonymous09:07

    Finally the passenger decline has stopped at Banja Luka :)

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    1. Anonymous09:08

      It says that passenger numbers decline 2,6%.

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    2. Anonymous09:12

      It also says "The only airports with scheduled commercial flights to have seen their figures decline so far this year are Mostar, Rijeka and Banja Luka, although the latter posted growth in September for the first time this year."

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    3. Anonymous09:14

      It's true. In September BNX had 1.905 passengers. Increase +7,5%.

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    4. Anonymous09:24

      That means that Air Serbia's flights from BEG to BNX were filling up better than last September.

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    5. Anonymous09:27

      Is the frequency the same as last year?

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    6. Anonymous09:32

      Yep

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    7. Anonymous10:03

      That's good but unless they do something there is little hope for them. The 3 BRA flights from Gothenburg this December/January won't do much. It's unfortunate because I think BNX has a lot of perspective and could be a a Wizz base.

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    8. Anonymous10:32

      Agree with anon above. On the upside their numbers are much better than they were in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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    9. Anonymous11:23

      Banja Luka Airport is he record holder for doing absolutely nothing in the last (how many) years.

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    10. Anonymous11:53

      Bolji im je RA zbog Zagreba. Zagreb South na Mahovljanima.

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  6. Anonymous09:09

    BEG is doing well. Not sure that target of 5.5 million will be reached. More likely 5.3 or 5.4.

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    1. Anonymous09:13

      October will be key. If they manage to record a 10% increase then 5.5 could be achieved. I am curious to see how they perform but I am an optimist.

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    2. Anonymous09:16

      True. Anyone have an idea of how October has been performing so far?

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    3. Anonymous09:19

      From what I heard they are expecting growth to fall somewhere between 8% and 11%. We will see.

      A few months ago the airport saw increased passenger numbers in the last few days which distorted their projections.

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    4. Anonymous11:06

      Seems like 2018 will be a good year, Vueling is extending their BCN-BEG flights throughout the whole summer season twice per week. Let's hope they also add a third weekly flight during the busiest period.

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  7. Anonymous09:11

    I'm actually disappointed with Sarajevo. For its potential it should be handling much more passengers.

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    1. Anonymous09:14

      Potential is there. For example look at Vienna flights. LJU and ZAG were operated by turboprops while SJJ got the A319. The potential is massive and I hope they lower taxes to stimulate demand.

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    2. Anonymous09:17

      Winter will be strong this year. New Atlasglobal flights, new Qatar flights and extra Flydubai flights which will also include Podgorica.

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    3. Anonymous09:19

      flydubai is selling SJJ-TGD for €200 so I don't know how many passengers they will get there.

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    4. Anonymous09:22

      I guess they can since they have no competition. If someone needs to catch a flight they will pay.

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    5. Anonymous09:23

      Only those who can afford to fly and I doubt there are many.

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    6. Anonymous09:28

      Is TUI keeping its Brussels flights over the winter or is it a seasonal service?

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  8. Anonymous09:13

    What I find interesting is that INI is alone in the category of 300.000 to 500.000 passengers. Stockholm flights start in less than a week so I wish them all the best.

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    1. Anonymous09:19

      I hope there will be some new destinations next year too :) INI has been a big surprise.

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    2. Anonymous09:22

      I am sure there are going to be more additions. I am still waiting for LX to add an additional flight, two weekly is really nothing. Three is already shaping to be good.

      I am waiting to see what Ryanair and Wizz Air do.

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    3. Anonymous09:23

      Lufthansa Group regional manager confirmed publicly that Nis will increase to three weekly next summer. He was quoted here. I'm also interested to see the next move from Wizz and Ryan.

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    4. Anonymous09:25

      What I am interested in seeing is what time the third flight takes place. I hope they offer a good one so as to allow connections from north America.

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    5. Alen Šćuric Purger09:33

      3pw is much better, but Niš really need at least 6pw to any hub for connections to rest of the world. That should be their goal, and center of their efforts.

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    6. Nemjee09:43

      I think six weekly or daily flights are their long-terms goals. Before those they needed to make sure a legacy can make INI work which seems to be the case with LX.

      With LX doing really well down there I wouldn't be surprised if EW is the next to launch flights from one of the German destinations or maybe even from VIE.

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    7. What's interesting to me is that even though INI scooped 250K pax, surrounding airports didn't suffer very much. It would be interesting to see how bus routes performed YoY

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    8. Anonymous15:21

      Which position will INI hold by 2020? I see it in the top 10 list!

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    9. Anonymous00:04

      2nd for sure.
      And Morava 3rd, unfortunately Ponikve just 5th because Split will have 3.000 more passengers than Ponikve.

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  9. Anonymous09:15

    Based on the data so far, I'm guessing SKP will end up with max 1.8 mil pax this year. 2 mil is hard to reach since we are now in the slow season.

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  10. Anonymous09:17

    Croatia rocks this year, next year will be even better!

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  11. Anonymous09:21

    The positive effects of extending the runway at Brac are already visible.

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    1. Anonymous09:32

      Yes! I really hope Eurowings will launch flights to Brac next year.

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    2. Anonymous20:46

      I hope to

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  12. Alen Šćuric Purger09:34

    U realnim brojkama to je novih putnika do sada:

    495.429 Split
    340.077 Beograd
    300.241 Dubrovnik
    238.334 Zagreb
    146.210 Pula

    Management ZL Zagreb bi se trebao ozbiljno zapitati nad ovim brojkama.

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    1. Anonymous09:40

      Ovaj rast na SPU je neverovatan. Svaka cast.

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    2. Nemjee09:49

      BEG growth is interesting as I suppose most of those are local passengers, not transfers.

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    3. Anonymous15:17

      I suppose its exactly the other way round, many pax in transfer- especially to ATH, BEY, TLV for small money.

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    4. Anonymous21:32

      Those passengers from ATH and BEY were already there last year. New flights were not added so I agree with nemje.

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  13. Anonymous09:34

    Could Tuzla take over Zadar next year?

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    1. Anonymous10:15

      If they keep this growth they will overtake Sarajevo too :D

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    2. Anonymous14:00

      They could- but looking at the route announcement on the right hand side here, I would doubt that. ZAD has a few while I do not see any for TUZ yet. Especially since we still in the SST for 2017.

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  14. Anonymous09:36

    It seems like Bosnia is handling just a couple of thousand passengers less than Slovenia at this point. Could Bosnia overtake Slovenia next year?

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  15. Anonymous09:41

    I'm pretty sure Pula and Zadar would already had a million pax as well had the country not broken up. If I remember correctly Pula had around 700,000 in 1987. But these are really good results too.

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    1. Anonymous09:52

      Their numbers are not connected to braking of Yugoslavia but the fact that Croatia build highways from to Zadar to Zagreb with connections to Rijeka, Sisak, Osijek, Ljubljana, Maribor, Budapest and Belgrade; and from Pula to Rijeka-Zagreb with connections to Zadar and to Slovenia-Italy.

      To have so much highway that during Yugoslavia era for sure must influence air traffic.

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    2. Anonymous10:01

      Do remember that Adria and Genex had an extensive flight programme from Pula. But of course I agree with you that circumstances are different now and all this can affect air traffic.

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    3. Anonymous11:45

      Nekadasnje dve carter kompanije su dovodile tone turista iz Evrope na vojne aerodrome u Istri i Dalmaciji. OU nema skoro nista od takve flote.

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    4. The old country didn't just 'break up' but a war followed too. Pula and Zadar could have had over 1 million pax and Belgrade over 15 if we had a peaceful divorce.

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  16. Anonymous09:43

    It is sad that airports like Skopje and Pristina are handling more traffic than Ljubljana... The Ljubljana airport should really wake up. I really wish they would.

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    1. Anonymous09:49

      I agree and I am actually from Ljubljana. But first they need to catch up to 2008 numbers. I think Fraport needs to do much more to attract new airlines. There was hope Eurowings would start flights this year but nothing. Now it looks like they are not even considering it.

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    2. Anonymous09:57

      Not sure why is sad that SKP or PRN is handling more traffic than LJU? Is LJU entitled to more traffic with some convention which I'm not aware of?

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    3. Anonymous10:40

      i was sad too when Adria was milking macedonian and kosovar passengers through the 90`s. Koja arogancija!

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    4. Anonymous12:56

      +1 last 2 anons.


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  17. Anonymous09:43

    &AnonymousOctober 25, 2017 at 9:09 AM

    BEG is doing well. Not sure that target of 5.5 million will be reached. More likely 5.3 or 5.4.

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    AnonymousOctober 25, 2017 at 9:13 AM

    October will be key. If they manage to record a 10% increase then 5.5 could be achieved. I am curious to see how they perform but I am an optimist.


    AnonymousOctober 25, 2017 at 9:16 AM

    True. Anyone have an idea of how October has been performing so far?


    AnonymousOctober 25, 2017 at 9:19 AM

    From what I heard they are expecting growth to fall somewhere between 8% and 11%. We will see.

    A few months ago the airport saw increased passenger numbers in the last few days which distorted their projectio

    LYBE will handle some 487K PAX in October which is 11% more compared to October last year.

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    1. Anonymous09:57

      That would be a great result :)

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    2. Anonymous10:29

      11% is very good especially since Air Serbia didn't fly to New York for half of October because of aircraft maintenance.

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    3. Anonymous10:37

      I suppose it will be compensated by foreign carriers which have added quite a few flights on top of Wizz Air's second aircraft.

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    4. Nemjee10:44

      So BEG will come close to having another month with at least half a million passengers.

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  18. Anonymous09:55

    Gledajući komentar gos'n Purgera moram da kažem da će se Beograd do kraja godine dosta približiti Splitu sa brojem "novih" putnika u 2017. godini. Imaće povećanje nekih 460.000 putnika.

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  19. Anonymous09:58

    Nice to see many additional Vueling's flights to Belgrade during next Summer season.

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    1. Anonymous11:23

      Please elaborate.

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    2. Anonymous11:25

      From next summer Vueling will fly from Barcelona to Belgrade twice per week for the entire summer season. From end of March until end of October. Up until now it was only during the peak summer period that they operated to BEG.

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  20. Anonymous10:01

    When you look at it from a country level all ex-Yu markets are growing very nicely this which is great news.

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  21. Anonymous10:05

    Great growth all around but Podgorica is still the most impressive for me. I'm really surprised how well they have been doing. I mean who would have thought Podgorica handling a million passengers!

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    1. Anonymous10:08

      Well it seems all that was required was for the market to open up to competition.

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    2. Anonymous10:16

      And remember Montenegro has 2 airports. Both will have over a million passengers and be in the top 10 :)

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    3. Anonymous10:19

      Well I think already now Montenegro has the post passengers relative to the population size.

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    4. Anonymous10:37

      Yep around 4 passengers per capita! That's probably among the highest in the world.

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    5. Nemjee10:43

      I think in Europe only Cyprus and Malta are higher than Montenegro.

      Malta population: 445.000
      MLA airport: 5.080.000

      Cyprus population: 838.000
      LCA+PFO: 8.974.163

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    6. Anonymous14:12

      Luxemburg
      6 per capita

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    7. Anonymous14:42

      Iceland
      20 per capita

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    8. Anonymous14:46

      Svedska...

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    9. Anonymous21:31

      Iceland's airport is not in Europe so we don't consider it relevant.

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    10. Anonymous00:06

      Of course not, it is in Africa.

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    11. Anonymous07:55

      It's actually in North America.

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    12. Anonymous08:44

      Daj me ne....ako ces bas tacno,
      Rejkyavik sa svoja 2 aerodroma se politicki i zemljopisno nalazi u Europi.
      Molim te, mani me tih istocnih teorija

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    13. Anonymous08:49

      Ma što Sjeverna Amerika, zapravo je Azija.

      A načitat ću se gluposti na ovom forumu majke mi. Da je Iceland u Americi, a ne u Europi. E ovo nisam još nigdje pročitao.

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    14. Anonymous08:53

      Danska
      5 per capita

      A Island je i dalje u Europi

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    15. Anonymous09:01

      Norveska
      5 per capita

      A Island je jos u Europi

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    16. Anonymous09:05

      Nizozemska
      6 per capita

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  22. Anonymous10:05

    Bravo Hrvatska!

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    1. Anonymous00:07

      Bravo Gornji Prepuštevec

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  23. Anonymous10:14

    By now Sarajevo should have been handling similar numbers to LJU. Pity. I think all that is required is for Wizz or someone similar to open a few routes and they would be there.

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  24. Anonymous10:30

    Croatia airports are doing a great job.

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    1. Anonymous10:41

      Ne aerodromi, vec ono sta se veze na njih.

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  25. Anonymous10:34

    Total pax numbers by country;
    Croatia 8,234,508
    Serbia 4,392,931
    Montenegro 1,869,779
    Macedonia 1,546,193
    Kosovo 1,468,698
    Slovenia 1,297,877
    Bosnia Herzegovina 1,218,912

    Bravo Hrvatska: Amazing result

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    1. Serbia with only 2 serving airports has also impressive pax. Amazing results for CRO & SRB

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    2. Anonymous13:06

      But, average passengers per airport:

      Serbia: 2,196,465
      Kosovo: 1,468,698
      Slovenia: 1,297,877
      Montenegro: 934,890
      Croatia: 914,945
      Macedonia: 773,097
      Bosnia and Herzegovina: 406,304

      Numbers handling is amazing ;)

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    3. Anonymous13:38

      I love juggling numbers too- such a fun game :)

      But in the end Croatia is by far Ex-Yu´s biggest aviation market- while BEG is the biggest airport.

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    4. Well, actually it is "impressive" that almost everything that Serbia has is in Belgrade...

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    5. Anonymous15:52

      Dividing the pax numbers for each country by the population (of the considered country) brings Kosovo at the first position:
      1,468,698/1,816,000 = 0.81

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    6. Anonymous19:04

      @AnonymousOctober 25, 2017 at 1:06 PM

      Losinj isn't airport. Only airports in Croatia are.

      Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Pula, Zadar, Rijeka, Osijek and Brac. Losinj is just landing strip, used for charters and add-hock landings. Yes it has some traffic, but much.



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    7. Anonymous00:12

      It is categories as international airport by Croatian authority, but who they are and what the know:

      http://www.mppi.hr/UserDocsImages/TABLICA%20AERODROMA%2020-4_15.pdf

      Please teach them, you expert.

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  26. Anonymous10:38

    If the entire ex-Yu market was conisdered as one, which airline currently has the biggest passenger share? Wizz Air?

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    1. Anonymous10:54

      Air Serbia
      Wizz
      Croatia
      Eurowings
      Austrian
      Turkish

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    2. Anonymous11:02

      Air Serbia also records the biggest loss for financial year 2016 - 17, circa -Euro 40 m

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    3. Anonymous11:04

      Numbers and where’s LH in this mix?

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    4. Anonymous12:08

      An 11:02

      Your comment was unnecessary and has nothing to do with my question.

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  27. Anonymous10:42

    What happen with Rijeka, Mostar and Lošinj? I can understand numbers for Lošinj, ECA is not flying anymore, but...Mostar have less charter flights this year? And what about Rijeka? They have a lot of flights during the summer, but there is no demand for it?

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    1. Anonymous10:50

      Yes, there were much fewer charter flights from Italy to Mostar this year, which is why numbers have gone down. This will change next year with Eurowings starting flights.

      Not sure about Rijeka.

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    2. Anonymous10:54

      Numbers at Mostar have been falling for a second year in a row now.

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  28. Anonymous11:02

    In total more than 2 million extra passengers a ex-Yu airports compared to first three quarters of last year.

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  29. Anonymous11:11

    So Osijek will overtake Mostar this year finally.

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  30. Anonymous11:26

    All the best to all the hard working airports across ex yu.

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  31. Anonymous11:28

    Zagreb will get additional boost next year, OU is increasing LIS to 4 a week and many of the launched destinations will get a boost net summer.

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    1. Can you give more details please?

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    2. OU is already flying to LIS 4 pw this year. It was in 2016 that it flew 3pw. Next year, OU will add several more destinations...

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    3. Anonymous07:54

      Problem with OU is not that they are not launching new route but that they are not making any money on the ones they are currently serving.

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  32. Do not be supraise of big incrise of number of passenger of costal airport
    There is still room for much bigger improvement
    Palma de Majorca one island in Med has 26 mil pax per year , more that all ex yu airports together.
    Let’s say Split wich servis middle Dalmatia plus islands Brač Hvar Korcula Solta Vis and more has less then 3 mil pax per year
    This year result is very good and first time in history will go over 23 million the number of population of ex-yu

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  33. Congrats everybody!!
    Split and Montenegrin airports are the stars this year imo, and Skopje vs Pristina - the most exciting race.

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  34. Anonymous20:48

    Year 2020. Top 10 predictions:
    1. BEG
    2. SPU
    3. DBV
    4. ZAG
    5. LJU
    6. PRN
    7. SKP
    8. TGD
    9. SJJ
    10.INI

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    1. Anonymous23:57

      No, no, ZAG would be 11th than. Just after Niš. Or maybe 12th because Banja Luka will jump so high.

      Or even better:
      1. BEG
      2. BEG
      3. BEG
      4. BEG
      5. BEG
      6. BEG
      7. BEG
      8. BEG
      9. BEG
      10. BEG
      ...32. ZAG

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    2. Anonymous00:16

      Wtf, he's rather realistic.

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    3. Anonymous00:30

      @ 11:57 is just mad that ZAG won't be the leading airport, just ignore him

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    4. So annoying with "predictions".

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  35. Anonymous20:53

    Interesting part is that both ZAD and INI will be really close by the end of 2017

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    1. Anonymous23:59

      Of course

      ZAG will have 600.000
      and INI 300.000

      that is so close.

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    2. Anonymous00:01

      He is talking about Zadar not Zagreb.

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    3. Anonymous00:14

      Mistake
      ZAD 600.000
      INI 300.000

      That is so close. Almost same number of passengers!

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    4. Anonymous05:48

      So damn close.....

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    5. Anonymous07:45

      The only difference is that INI can actually sustain year-round flights and that's why it's only a matter of time before they overtake ZAD.

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    6. Anonymous07:53

      From what I can see ZAD has only two year-round destination, Rijeka and Zagreb on OU. That's really nothing.

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    7. Anonymous08:26

      Ajd, zivi bili pa vidjeli.
      Za sada INI kasni 100% za ZAD.
      Ili, ako ti se vise svidja, INI je za 50% slabiji od ZAD.

      No, ako ces INI gledati kao 2.aerodrom u drzavi, trebao bi ga komoarirati sa SPU ili ZAG.
      Biraj

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    8. Anonymous08:58

      Zadar ima 12 tjednih letova zimi na dvije destinacije (Pula, a ne Rijeka)

      No ljeti ima 156 tjednih letova. Nebo i zemlja sa ovih par letova Niša.

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  36. Anonymous12:16

    Impressive growth for INI. It has more passengers then Rijeka, Mostar, Osijek, Brac, Banja Luka and Mali Losinj altogether. Absolutely impressive for until a few years back the dead airport.

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    1. Anonymous12:19

      Po definiciji, statistika je tocan broj netocnih podataka.

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