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Operator Airports of Serbia has told EX-YU Aviation News that Morava Airport, which is part of its management portfolio, handled 7.269 passengers during the January - July period. Last month alone 2.747 travellers passed through its doors. Due to runway restrictions, only smaller aircraft can use Morava Airport. Therefore, all of its flights are currently operated by the ATR72 turboprop. Air Serbia maintains year-long services from Morava Airport to Istanbul, as well as seasonal summer operations to Tivat and Thessaloniki.
Does this airport have potential? Who else could start flights here with such a small plane?
ReplyDeleteCroatia Airlines with dashes, Tarom maybe with ATR 42-72?
DeleteOr maybe AirSerbia getting more PSO flights.
Croatia Airlines? Hahaha hahaha, you made my day ☺
DeleteLong term KVO has more potential than INI. All they have to do is fix the runway.
ReplyDeleteSoon in the news: Morava airport surpasses Ljubljana airport for 5 pax in the last year.
DeleteHaha good one but LJU is safe until the new runway is built.
DeleteWhen will they built it?
DeleteI wouldn't be surprised if Morava overtakes Ljubljana LH Cartel Airport. Or if any other airports such as INI, OHD, PUY...
DeleteYou think Morava will take over Pula which had 777k passengers in 2019?
DeleteI meant that INI, PUY, OHD take over LJU.
DeleteOh ok, yeah, that would make sense.
DeleteSo, by the year end it is cca 13k. Not bad at all!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I am positively surprised by the July results.
DeleteI think Uzice was a better option.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't. KVO catchment area is bigger by far: Kragujevac, Čačak and Kraljevo, all within 30-35 km. Even Požega with new highway is close. Not to mention Novi Pazar and Raška oblast, ski resorts and so on.
DeleteLYSJ/Dubinje is next one.
DeleteWork in progres
Don't forget that Valjevo is halfway between KVO and BEG so everything between Valjevo and Cacak gravitates towards KVO. Add to that Novi Pazar with its massive diaspora and you have an airport that can handle 700.000 to 1.000.000 passengers in the next ten years especially if they keep on investing in tourism.
DeleteThese results are not that bad at all. For an airport that has only existed for a few years, plus the covid situation, plus the problem with the runway. As someone said, Morava airport has great potential.
ReplyDeleteMorava airport is growing, it just takes time to fix the runway. And then other airlines will come. According to these results, Morava is currently shoulder to shoulder with airports in Croatia: Losinj, Brac and Osijek.
ReplyDeleteThis airport looks better than LJU #
ReplyDeleteOk if you say so haha
DeleteFrom the outside LJU looks better, but KVO's interior looks much better than LJU's.
DeleteLJU's interior is after expansion much, much bigger. The number of gates also.
DeleteBigger interior doesn't mean that it looks better. Also it doesn't matter how many gates as the airport has barely 15 flights a day.
Delete^ have you ever been to either airport?
DeleteYes, for now. You are forgetting colapse of Adria came 5 months before covid, meaning two big hits for this unlucky airport in less than half a year. Better times are ahead of LJU for sure.
DeleteBetter times ahead? For cartel maybe.
DeleteI don't know if you noticed, but Air France, Flydubai, British and even Finnair (next year) all had great loads and increased frequencies. Turkish flies regularly on A321 also.
DeleteAgree
ReplyDeleteOnce new runway is build and Moravski Koridor is finished this airport will be very attractive for low-cost airliners as even Belgrade will be just over an hour away and cost for them will be much lower.
ReplyDeleteKVO-DTM can work like a charm based on demand from NP alone. Wizz Air should be one of the first to launch this route once the runway is completed.
DeleteMaybe JU could in the future spare one A319 and operate a W pattern schedule combining both INI and KVO.
Btw I heard that KVO-IST is booming.
Both INI and Morava have huge potential but more investment and marketing is necessary. And the low fare carriers are definitely coming to Morava. The only question is when.
ReplyDeleteStil nobody geave answer. When will starting costruktion on new proposal runway and cargo center have promised on Morava
ReplyDeleteAny transparency about futura. Question start vith question mark. And finish with bigger one.??.
But I don't understand something; Why is it said that Kraljevo needs a longer runway for other bigger airplanes? If New York LGA can handle the B757 with two runways of 2.144m, why can't Kraljevo get some A319/320 on it's runway of 2.265m?
ReplyDeleteIt is not related to runway length but the weight bearing capacity of the runway.
DeletePotpuno tacna kostatacija Anon20:17. Nosivost stare piste je sasvim mala i pravljena je za lake vojne avione. Jos prvog septembra 1961, sam poceo da radim na pocetku izgradnje vojne baze Ladjevci.
DeleteKoincidentno sada posle 61 godinu sa zeljom sam posvecen izgradnji nove piste koja moze da primi velike kargo avione. Omoguciti da kargo saobracaj na Moravi moze izdrzavati ceo aerodrom i kroz porez izdrzavati i vojni deo.
Kome je to neshvatljivo? Samoodrzivost aerodroma je imperativ postojanja. Investicija i razvoj Morave su baza razvoja cele centralne Srbije.
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Thank you for the info
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Delete2/3 destinations from KVO (clap clap)...it would have been a better news to read that KVO opened up new destinations towards Western-Europe instead of celebrating 7000 passengers.
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