Wizz Air opens Sarajevo base

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Wizz Air has today opened its base in Sarajevo by stationing an aircraft in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital and launching the first two of nine new routes. Sarajevo Airport becomes Wizz Air's second base in Bosnia and Herzegovina following Tuzla and fourth in the former Yugoslavia. All of the new routes are currently unserved from Sarajevo and will significantly improve the city's connectivity. Most markets selected by Wizz Air from Sarajevo are driven by VFR (Visiting Friends and Family) traffic. Commenting on Wizz Air’s arrival, the General Manager of Sarajevo Airport, Alan Bajić, told EX-YU Aviation News earlier this month, “We expect for the opening of the Wizz Air base to generate growth in traffic (both an increase in flights and a significant increase in passengers, as well as the launch of new routes), which is very important not only for Sarajevo Airport but for the entire tourism sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina and all those whose work and recovery in the coming period depends, by in large, on the revival of air transport in our country”. He added, “Looking at Wizz Air’s destination network out of Sarajevo, we can see it primarily includes Western European cities, with which we lost connectivity due to the pandemic. There is no need to highlight the importance and significance of the western world, both in a business sense as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina’s strategic orientation to explicitly tie its future to this region, the EU and NATO. The establishment of the base is of strategic interest for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the fact that Sarajevo will now be linked to destinations where our diaspora lives”.