| Destination | Launch date |
|---|---|
| Treviso | 14.12.2021 |
| Malmo | 14.12.2021 |
| Hahn | 14.12.2021 |
| Cologne | 15.12.2021 |
| Sandefjord | 15.12.2021 |
| Hamburg | 16.12.2021 |
| Billund | 17.12.2021 |
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On the other hand, Wizz will add a further two routes from its Tuzla base, complementing fifteen existing services. New routes will be added to Milan Malpensa Airport and Nuremberg. Wizz Air has grown significantly out of Bosnia and Herzegovina this year, with the launch of its Sarajevo base, as well as services from Banja Luka. However, Wizz Air has stagnated with its Tuzla operations in recent years. Today’s expansion will be officially announced at a press conference at 16.00 CEST by the airline’s President Robert Carey, the newly appointed acting General Manager of Tuzla Airport, Meris Šabanović, and the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Transport of the Tuzla Canton government, Hamza Bešić.
| Destination | Launch date |
|---|---|
| Nuremberg | 14.12.2021 |
| Milan | 17.12.2021 |
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Wizz Air’s CEO. Jozsef Varadi, visited Bosnia and Herzegovina last month. He said, “Bosnia and Herzegovina has held up well against the pandemic. It was flexible and resilient during the crisis and performed stronger than most traditional European markets in which Wizz Air operates. There were measures introduced by the government, but there was movement of people. More people travelled from Bosnia and Herzegovina than other countries. We believe Bosnia is a good market to invest in. There are a lot of investment prospects, as well as opportunities to bring more airlines into the country and launch new routes. We will be seeing that in the coming months”. He added, “This, combined with all the development I see going on, encourages us to think of what’s next in terms of increasing the number of aircraft, employees and services. That is something we are working on and I am pretty sure that Bosnia and Herzegovina can be a winner in all of this”.
Of course. This was the price for blocking FR.
ReplyDeleteWizz Air is in full state of chaos. Fired too many "bad apples", and now they are wet leasing other aircraft while a large part of their fleet is parked.
ReplyDeleteWizz Air is leasing aircrafts becouse of the lack of cabin crew. They have one wet leased A321 deployed at SKP base becouse there isnt much crew. Some of them are on summer holidays while some other quited the job. They also retired 21 FA from SKP base last year due to the pandemic. Among the leased A321, WizzAir has 5 Airbus A321 aircraft and one A320 which is flying to Dortmund only.
DeleteI do not understand where are most of these old crew? Didn't they want to come back? I am sure they called them to come back and work for them.
DeleteBosnia has been performing very well this year.
ReplyDeleteExcellent news. I'm guessing a third aircraft and around 5 new routes.
ReplyDeletewow well done
ReplyDeleteExpect only more frequencies on current destination
ReplyDeleteFantastic news
ReplyDeleteWizz please start flights from Mostar!
ReplyDeleteThat airport is a lost cause.
DeleteManagement of airport with almost all people working there are incapable.
DeleteCan you elaborate? I am very interested in this point of view.
DeleteTuzla Airport really will be handling a million passengers eventually.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible.
DeleteFinally. They have really been stagnating for a while.
ReplyDeleteWell now we know why Ryan was blocked, CEo of Tuzla fired etc...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Wizz announced yesterday the sixth aircraft based on Tirana just a year after opening the base.
ReplyDeleteWhen could we see the new routes introduced?
ReplyDeleteI wish Tuzla would diversify its offer and get another airline to start flights. They really had a good opportunity with Ryanair.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Wizz did good job but is still one company. They need competition for growth.
DeleteFor me personally, and given its size and population, BiH definitely has a special status. At least 4 operational airports and 3 of which are bases. SJJ is with no doubt the Gulf carriers leader. Well done and well worked!
ReplyDeleteHow many routes does W6 currently have from Tuzla?
ReplyDeleteIt says in the article.
Delete"The airline currently maintains fifteen routes to six countries from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s third largest city."
Also adding one more A321 in Tirana, new 5 routes and increasing a few existing. But it is obvious that Wizz has a lot operational problems, some routes decrising in September and than return in October
ReplyDeleteI think Paris Beauvais could work for them.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know what their busiest route out of TZL is?
ReplyDeleteI believe it is Malmo.
DeleteActually, I think it is Dortmund or Basel. German gasto market is strongest.
DeleteGood work Tuzla.
ReplyDeleteMore gasterbaiter routes coming.
ReplyDeleteWhat else do you expect? Wizz just replaces bus routes - almost everywhere in ex-Yu.
DeleteWith so many aircraft on order Wizz will have to keep expanding, ex-Yu market included.
ReplyDeleteGermany & Sweden are well covered from TZL. My guess that they may launch LTN, BVA & BGY and increase existing destinations with higher demand.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Those routes seem plausible.
DeleteBut Wizz failed on Luton route from Tuzla. LF was low for Wizz standards. Don't see what has changed since.
DeleteBravo Bosna!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why they would resume Oslo and London when they were underperforming badly.
ReplyDeleteThey have to start some and there aren't any better ones.
DeleteIt will work out if they can find pilots to fly the aircraft...
ReplyDeleteWell done Tuzla and Bosnia, what a transformation in just a couple of years on the Bosnian market :)
ReplyDeleteThis airport does not get enough credit for the results it has achieved over the past few years.
DeleteWhat credit? They would be credited if they actually called Wizz Air's bluff and allowed FR to move in. Like this they got their bribes and forced Wizz to add more routes while the government pays for it all.
DeleteGood work Tuzla.
ReplyDeleteI wish Wizz Air would grow a pair and actually move away from gasto routes like they did in Belgrade with Heraklion and Santorini.
ReplyDeleteI would love for them to add routes like BEG-LJU or BEG-OHD, LJU-SKP and so on. There would be enough demand at least on a summer seasonal basis.
I think next year they might try some holiday destinations from SKP especially HER.
DeleteFantastic for Tuzla. So happy to see this small airport with no traffic a few years ago develop in such a way.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree with you that it's great for the general public and tourism as well, you have to wonder how great it is for the airport and whether they make any money out of it. That's why they should have let Ryanair start flights and made things more competitive.
DeleteCongrats Tuzla.
ReplyDeleteIs Tuzla canton still subsidizing Wizz flights?
ReplyDeleteOf course. Wizz Air doesn't pay anything to the airport - all costs are covered by Tuzla Canton.
DeleteExcellent news for Tuzla and aviation in Bosnia.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a good year so far in Bosnian aviation with so many new routes opened to Sarajevo and Banja Luka. It is also good to see Sarajevo with good passenger numbers.
DeleteI hope they expand from BNX as well. They are sending A321 on all flights.
DeleteLjubljana should offer Wizzair some deal to get new flights.
ReplyDeleteFraport got 5mio state aid last year to mitigate the consequences of pandemics. Of course the aid was understood as a pure financial transaction just to cover the HYPOTHETICAL financial lose. I would have understood all this if FRAPORT had proven that their financial report for 2020 was negative, but no, FRAPORT will even make PROFIT with the aid they got. INSANE.
DeleteIf the gov was a bit smarter, they would have bounded Fraport to use this money to bring/keep new carriers/routes. But no, the gov is rather sponsoring a german company to make profit. And do not forget there is only one goal Fraport has in LJU, and it is CARGO. LJU will see some development only if triggered by carriers themselves.
If the gov was even smarter, they would have given this some money to the carriers and this way you have a double effect - you help FRAPORT and you help your own economy (with better air connectivity). Win, win. The money spills over from carriers to the airport and you keep economies connected.
So the gov made a crucial mistake to give money to the last link in the chain, so you have no further multiplication of the money invested, no indirect beneficts. Not really smart I guess.
Do not count on FRAPORT to pay Wizzair to come here.
If your government were really smart they wouldn't sell the airports in the first place.
DeleteNo doubt about that. How can someone be so damn stupid that you sell the most basic infrastructure?
DeleteHave no idea why is everyone so excited about Wizz's new routes. They are a terrible airline.
ReplyDeleteThis is good news for Bosnia's economy, tourism and of course the gastos that can afford to come back home.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been a much wiser decision to have some flights depart from OSI, who desperately needs them. And Wizz OSI-BSL was really full to the brim every time I was on board (20+ times).
ReplyDeleteWhen is the press conference?
ReplyDeleteIt says 4pm in the article.
DeleteBad news for bus companies coming.
ReplyDeleteI thought they would concentrate on Sarajevo?
ReplyDeleteNow they will again take away a lot of passengers.
The most important thing is to introduce different lines from Sarajevo, Tuzla and Banja Luka
Deletewow amazing work Sarajevo. Second aircraft and 9 new routes. Did not see that coming.
ReplyDeleteAt this rate, Sarajevo will have a better year than 2019.
ReplyDeleteSarajevo finally getting European destinations! Fantastic news.
ReplyDeleteThis is huge. Well done Sarajevo. Now in addition to big Mid East network it has a big European network :)
ReplyDeleteSve ovo treba dobro istraziti. Nista se ovdje nije slucajno desilo nego na principu ''pola meni - pola tebi'' Zato se i mijenjaju direktori i odbijaju nove musterije, a FR nije bilo kakva musterija.
ReplyDeleteSto se tice Sarajeva i novih linija, pola njih nikakve veze nema, pogotovo Billund, Hahn, Hamburg, Sandefjord. Kome trebaju statisticki podaci za BLL, OSL, HHN, mogu pokazati u usporedbi sa CPH, OSL i FRA. Sandefjord je sezonska linija 2 mjeseca i dosta bi bilo polupraznih aviona. Jos da napomenem CGN i Eurowings, tu ce biti frke kao i na HHN/FRA ali je dobra ideja nadmetanja.
+1, I think that service to Italy won't do good either, we don't have big diaspora there, especially in north.
DeleteOver 20,000 Bosnians and Herzegovinians live in Italy, and annually Bosnia and Herzegovina is visited by over 60,000 tourists from Italy. The line will definitely pay off
DeleteAnd why flights to Mostar by that Italian airline owned by the Post never took off properly?
DeleteWizz and Ryan are competing who is going to expand more quickly, one from Sarajevo the other from Zagreb :D
ReplyDeleteAt least Sarajevo and Tuzla get an expansion.
ReplyDeleteIn Belgrade we still wait for the expansion Wizz announced last year...
Wizz will expand in Beogradu when they are ready financially. BEG is not a " county airport" and it is a hub for a major airline.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nonsense - introducing Hamburg instead of returning Berlin???
ReplyDeleteWell there was probably a reason Berlin didn't work out.
DeleteBerlin did not work out? Wow. Thats a surprise. Berlin has a huge diaspora. How was the schedule?
DeleteThe Sarajevo-Berlin route was canceled for the first time because airberlin went bankrupt, and Eurovings canceled for the second time, due to coronavirus
DeleteBut Berlin was downgraded to seasonal before corona
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2019/12/eurowings-downgrades-berlin-sarajevo.html
Wizz Air cancelled Berlin from Sarajevo before it even started properly
DeleteNot sure if all these routes will work out, particularly in winter months. But good luck
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it make more sense to start Sarajevo-Milan instead of Tuzla-Milan?
ReplyDeleteOf course. Who needs Venice?
DeletePeople should take into account that Wizz will probably cancel one or two routes before they launch. They do that all the time. Same as Sarajevo-London.
ReplyDeleteStill no Spain :(
ReplyDeleteYes, no Barcelona :-( And no Rome
DeletePoco a poco (step by step) just like Spanish say. At least SJJ received a HUGE number of European routes.
DeleteSeems the Tuzla flights are being operated by non-Tuzla based plane.
ReplyDeleteWhat idiots in Tuzla. So they gave up 5 Ryanair routes for two Wizz Air routes that will probably be canceled or turned seasonal within a year.
ReplyDeleteSomeone lined their pockets. That's most important.
DeleteSarayevo AND Tuzla?
ReplyDeleteThats one airport too much!
Better concentrate on the capital of the country and not the village.
Tuzla ima 200.000 stanovnika, i nema potrebe da sve ide iz Sarajeva, kada u Bosni i Hercegovini mogu komotno raditi sve 4 aerodroma i biti profitabilni
DeleteVillage?? There are 450.000 people in and around Tuzla with close proximity to Serbia and Croatia as well as potential base for additional passengers. What are you talking about?? Nonsene.
Delete^He is right!
DeleteTuzla is cannibalizing SJJ. Foreigners prefer Sarajevo with more frequencies and not Tuzla which is famous for nothing.
People have to understand that gastos are not enough to fill a plane - you also need foreign tourists.
If people prefer Sarajevo then how is Tuzla ''cannibalizing'' them?
DeleteI personally will never fly either from Tuzla or Banja Luka, because roads to both places are disgusting. It is a pity Mostar is not being developed as a "reserve" airport for Sarajevo - e.g. when Sarajevo is shut in winter due to fog. There is a railway line passing by directly next to Mostar airport, and the road to there is fine.
DeleteThe question is, where do you live. Banja Luka is connected with 2 highways, to the north and east. Another to the west to Prijedor is going to construct soon.
DeleteCould Turku work too?
ReplyDeleteWhat a Paradox - people are complaining about extra flights/connections from "relatively financially poor" Bosnia while at the same time some other people are complaining about absolute no flights/connections from "relatively financially wealthy" Slovenia!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery strange world.
Tuzla has same number of destinations offered as LJU. And it has like 2x more passengers lol.
Delete"And it has like 2x more passengers"
DeleteThat is because of emigration in the last 30 years. Its not good but neither it is bad, it is just facts.
But I am talking about the paradox that in so called free-market economy of last 30 years you have paradox of having very limited flights in economy that is per GDP bigger multiple times the Bosnia's economy. I am not against flight from Tuzla, but neither I am for these flights. I am just pointing to paradox.
Slovenia never had mass emigration due to incompetent governance and foreign aggression (apart from 10 days, which they won) it is a wealthy country. LJU suffers mostly from being surrounded by other airports and the fact the country has a very good road network.
DeleteOther surrounding Airports are in OTHER countries. EU IS NOT a country. So it is a Paradox that a country in so called "free-market" capitalism not only does not have Airline but does not control even the important connections that are important for overall economy.
DeleteHaving a good Road network is fine to some extent for cheap packaged holidays in Mallorca over the couple summer months but otherwise it is useless for any serious country Air connectivity'
So someone at TZL airport got rich blocking FR so that W6 could launch 2 new routes? How will W6 cope when SJJ is closed for days at a time due to fog in the winter?
ReplyDeleteLast year there was not much fog and it lasted only 15 days, and the KS government is working to get people to switch to the so-called: green heating, to reduce fog
DeleteSO SAD FOR LONDON THERE ARE MANY BOSNIANS IN LONDON AND MANY PEOPLE IN UK WHO WANTS TO VISIT SARAJEVO. HUGE MISTAKE WIZZAIR.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely why they didnt gave chance to London?
DeleteBiH did a great job this year, tbh. They managed to capture the radar and attention of the big LCC European boys. Can't wait for the traffic charts by the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteZAG also did an amazing job with the FR agressive expansion. Finally SJJ and ZAG will be more cheaper to visit and accessible from more parts of Europe.