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Niš Constantine the Great Airport surpassed its 2017 end-of-year result yesterday, making 2018 its busiest on record. The traveller arrived on a Wizz Air flight from Memmingen. Niš Airport handled 331.582 passengers last year and anticipates welcoming a total of 355.000 travellers by year's end. General Manager Dušan Knežević said, "Today we broke the record for the number of passengers handled in a single year. We are delighted that Niš Airport's figures are constantly growing and we hope for the same trend to continue in 2019". He added that the airport is in talks with airlines over the introduction of new routes. The Serbian Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlović, noted, "We strongly believe that we will have some surprises concerning new carriers at Niš Airport in the coming period".
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Excellent developments and reaching this milestone was worth it.
Hard work and tough year but hopefully we see new legacies and new destinations, especially to France, Poland, Spain and UK.
https://instagram.fmuc3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/a9eefe1a514f5114911708f8cc48e1c1/5C9CB3BC/t51.2885-15/e35/47584010_2333237166751646_5043199546481547915_n.jpg
It is also now possible to make transfers with LEVEL as they have very cheap fares to Latin America or US.
Something like:
BCN-INI 23:55 02:35
INI-BCN 03:30 05:45
VY can try to initially send A319 and then eventually A320 or A321 in summer.
Speaking of Greece, FR recently launched SOF-CHQ so INI-CFU looks like a more reasonable charter.
INI-JTR would also be perfect (although it has very very bad reviews). The terminal building is in a critical situation.
As a national carrier, Air Serbia should support national airports (no excuses anymore, goverment from Belgrade is managing INI now).
Although admin already mentioned this in September:
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2018/09/air-serbia-negotiating-nis-flights.html
ASL simply is not really taking this very seriously.
5 rotations per day might be a bit too much but say 3 or max 4.
INI-BEG 05:00 05:50 (connections with NYC + entire network + possibly YYZ in 2020)
INI-BEG 13:00 13:50 (connections with entire network)
INI-BEG 22:05 22:50 (connections with Middle East + Abu Dhabi for example INI-BEG-AUH-KUL)
routes:
- Thessaloniki
- Athens
- Ljubljana
- Yagreb
- Sarajevo
- Istanbul
- Dubrovnik (summer)
- Split (summer)
This is definitely something they should think about!
Back in the days JA used to fly from SJJ-CPH using an ATR, if I am not mistaken.
she was 331,583rd passenger???
this stuff is usually done for "round number" passengers
20,000 x 17,5 = almost 360,000.
Imagine for example Belgradeland, they now have 5 million so if they increase seventeen times in 5 years that´s 87 million passengers which is what Beijing Airport has. But this is just a comparison.
if i understand @17:06 it is 300k mark
pointless celebration
of course there is, it will be subsidized through PSO. and all of the passengers would be transit
that's why JU needs something like E90/CR9