Sarajevo Airport within reach of pre-Covid figures

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China Eastern crash intentional

Flight data indicates a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March was intentionally put into a nose-dive. Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet, the reports say, citing a preliminary assessment by US officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it crashed. All 132 passengers and crew on board the plane died in the crash. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit", according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, citing a person familiar with US officials' preliminary assessment of the cause of the crash. Data from one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, which was recovered from the crash site, suggested that inputs to the controls pushed the plane into a near-vertical dive, the report said. China Eastern Airlines previously said the three pilots on board were qualified and in good health. The airline separately told the Wall Street Journal that there was no indication that any of the pilots was in financial trouble. Last month, the CAAC said reports that the plane may have been crashed deliberately had "gravely misled the public" and "interfered with accident investigation work". Investigators are still in the process of analysing flight data and the wreckage from the crash, Chinese state media outlet the Global Times reported. It also said the CAAC will continue to "carry out the accident investigation in a scientific, rigorous and orderly manner". The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal's report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization.

Sarajevo Airport within reach of pre-Covid figures

NEWS FLASH

Sarajevo Airport handled 56.521 passengers during the first month of the year, representing a decrease of 3.2% compared to the pre-pandemic January of 2020. The airport’s growth is being primarily fuelled by Wizz Air, which opened a base in the city last year. Sarajevo Airport plans to expand its destination network over the coming months. “This year we will see the launch of new routes and the arrival of new airlines at Sarajevo Airport. From March, Wizz Air will introduce a new two weekly nonstop service from London, while Air Cairo will commence flights between Hurghada and Sarajevo, also twice per week. We are negotiating with several other airlines, and we are constantly working on expanding our offer and destination network from Sarajevo”, the airport said. It added, “We have launched several initiatives with the authorities to subsidise airlines, which would in turn increase our passenger numbers, aircraft movements and destination count”. During January, Bosnia and Herzegovina had 1% more seat capacity on offer than it did during the same month in 2020.

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Anonymous15:46
Good job. Hopefully from February it will all be growth.
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Anonymous16:19
Without so many cancelled flights on 1st and 2nd of January (due to fog) SJJ would have had more pax than in Jan 2020.
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Anonymous17:19
Radar za brzinu na gejtu? Zaista?!
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Anonymous10:27
Hopefully they will introduce INI flights soon!
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