The city of Novi Sad in Northern Serbia has approved plans to enable its sports airport to cater for scheduled international flights. The city's Urban Planning Office will draft the airport's development strategy over the next four months. The Novi Sad Air Club, which manages the city's Čenej Airport, said it is aiming for commercial flights to launch from 2020 onwards. "The airport would primarily serve low cost airlines, as well as charter and business traffic", the Air Club said. They added, "There is strong demand from the local community. However, we have to be realistic. We want to develop an airport which would be of regional importance. This means that passengers from Vojvodina [Serbia's northern province of which Novi Sad is the capital] no longer have to travel to Belgrade to reach Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Zagreb, Dubrovnik or Banja Luka".
The current sports and agriculture field in the village of Čenej boasts only a grass runway. Novi Sad is located just over ninety kilometres north of Belgrade, with travel by car taking less than an hour. The city's assembly has called for the construction of a "modern airport that would fulfil necessary requirements for the conduct of commercial air traffic". It further noted, "The airport should cater for scheduled flights, low cost carriers, charters and air taxi services". The Air Club noted that construction could start immediately as there are no issues over land rights and ownership, which has delayed numerous planned airport projects across the former Yugoslavia.
The development of Novi Sad's airport has been discussed for over three decades. In 1994, work on the airport's control tower began, however, the project was never completed. In 2004, the private charter airline Di Air, from Montenegro, operated a promotional service from Tivat to Novi Sad with some twenty passengers on board the L-410 Turbolet aircraft. According to a state study, out of all of the airports in Serbia, the one in Novi Sad has the fewest fog affected days. In 2012, the city's former administration commissioned the design of the airport's passenger terminal (pictured above).
Serbia currently boasts two so-called "ghost airports"- in Užice and Kraljevo - with new terminal buildings but no commercial flights. Earlier this month, the city of Čačak, in central Serbia, approved plans for the development of its own airport for business and charter traffic. Čačak's sports airport currently boasts a concrete runway, as well as a control tower.
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Rodney.
Kings Park Sydney
I would rather see the money invested in rail infrastructure, with priority given to a high speed rail from NS to BEG\.
Hungary which has more than twice air traffic of Serbia has only two airports. The main issue an eventual airport in Vojvodina should solve is not taking pax from BEG or gaining few minutes to Novi Sad pax but stopping the outflow of Serbian passengers through Hungarian airports and reversing the trend.
LCC are already flying to BEG. IF you want to create a new catchment area Subotica is the only option.
https://ibb.co/eQjfFp
Btw BEG put this sign at the entrance: Vi zasluzujete cist toalet. Znamo da je tesko pronaci cist toalet. Nas cilj je da vam omogucimo najvisi kvalitet usluge i zato se trudimo da odrzavamo ovaj toalet cistim.
Znamo da je tesko pronaci cist toalet? wtf
Rodney.
Kings Park Sydney
It can just be considered a second Belgrade North airport similar to Brussels South Charleroi.
BNA International and can apply the INI 3€ marvellous tax.
FR, U2 and W6 will immediately react.
As for JU, maybe operating charters to Egipat, Spain or Jordan could be a nice idea.
Should that ever happened INI will never be what it is today.
Please, stop.
Nigde kapi prosute vode.
Јој како лупаш! Минибус са климом вози од врата у НС до аеродрома за мање од сата и кошта 10 до 15 евра, исто толико кошта такси из неких делова Београда до аеродрома и траје скоро исто толико! Па од BVA или HHN до центра Париза и Франкфурта треба више! Јој докле више ових небулоза! Треба градити болнице и школе а не нови аеродром за аероклубаше.
Currently we have to rely on taxis, vans or private arrangements.
I would much rather see Sombor Airport develop into civilian airfield able to accept ATRs. It takes 3 hours from Sombor or Subotica to reach BEG. If the officials want to expand BEG reach, that would be one beneficial use of public funds, despite its numerous shortcomings.
Знам да постоји минибус, али то није јавни превоз јер не постоји ред вожње, мора да се резервише место и не може да превезе већи број људи. Ако Французи мисле да озбиљније развију аеродром, пруга је свакако потребна инвестиција. Нормалан свет гради пруге до аеродрома јер су најпоузданији и најефикаснији начин да се људи доведу до аеродрома, а не да зивкају неке агенције, чекају сат времена друге путнике и још да их вози ко зна ко.
Не знам како неко може да упореди једини аеродром у Београду са нека два алтернативна аеродрома који имају мање путника и служе само за лоукостере.
Проблем је у томе што ми немамо железничку инфраструктуру. Да је имамо цео регион би могли повезати са београдским аеродромом. Али тешко Балканца одвићи од аутобуса и минибуса.
По мени, стратешки треба развијати железницу у следећим смеровима:
1. Београд-Суботица је у фази реализације.
2. Провући крак од Новог Сада преко Вуковара до Осијека. Маса Хрвата већ користи београдски аеродром а директна линија би им сигурно одговарала. Наравно, питање је колико би било политичке воље код Хрвата да се овако нешто реализује.
3. Београд-Панчево-Вршац-Темишвар или да се иде другим смером преко Смедерева па на Ковин а онда други крак да се провуче до Пожаревца. Одатле се већ реновира пруга ка источној Србији.
4. Пруга ка Нишу је потребна, не само због аеродрома већ генерално.
5. Пруга ка Чачку одакле би се раздвајале пруге, једна за Ужице а друга за Краљево.
Наравно, ово би требало да буде стратешки план развоја за наредних 10 до 15 година. Као што рекох, тешко да ће бити ишта од овога јер нисмо способни да реализујемо много једноставније пројекте као што је изградња аутопута од Руме до Шапца па чак и Лознице. Али важно да се прича о аутопуту за Драч преко Приштине.
Christ...
Who on earth would shift their operations from a 2M city like Belgrade to a 500k city of Novi Sad? Ah right, we want to build an airport for low-cost carriers in order to drag them away from overly expensive BEG.
Did anyone of these politicians check how low-cost airports like Beauvais, Skavsta, Memmingen, Hahn etc. were built? Every single one of them were former military bases.
Who has built an airport to focus on low-cost carriers? Ciudad Real! And we all know how that went...