The 23 commercial airports in the former Yugoslavia handled a combined total of 23.354.505 passengers during the first ten months of the year with several already well ahead of their pre-Covid performance including Pristina, Sarajevo, Zadar, Banja Luka and Portorož. Zagreb Airport has overtaken Pristina to position itself as the former Yugoslavia’s third busiest and is likely to make up ground against Split to reach the number two position by the end of the year, with current projections indicating a strong November performance. The airport is also on track to handle over three million passengers in 2022, which is slightly above the management’s projected target.
Airport performance, January - October 2022
Zadar Airport has welcomed over a million passengers this year, for the first time in its history. It becomes the fourth airport in Croatia to process over a million customers annually. On the other hand, Podgorica, which will surpass Zadar during November, is just 3.6% below its 2019 pre-pandemic passenger levels. This is despite the country’s former national carrier, Montenegro Airlines, boasting a notably larger network than that of its replacement, Air Montenegro. Foreign carriers have played a notable role in Podgorica Airport’s recovery.
Ljubljana Airport expects to see a strong fourth quarter and is likely to handle close to one million customers this year, up from the initially forecast 880.000. The airport noted, “A successful summer season brought the hustle and bustle back to Ljubljana Airport. The number of airlines connecting Slovenia to the world has again reached pre-pandemic times, which is twelve. As traffic continues to recover, we hope to approach one million handled passengers by the end of the year”. Ljubljana Airport expects to reach its 2019 passenger levels, which amounted to 1.7 million, in 2026.
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Not bad overall. Nice to see Podgorica doing so well.
ReplyDeleteSo by the end of the year 25 million?
ReplyDeleteNot really, maybe 24..two months.. BEG and ZAG may add 750k.. The rest of the crowd another 250k...we'll see. I highly doubt 25 million will be reached.
Delete@09:48 PRN will most probably in last two months of 2022 have 450k.
DeleteIt's sad that October will be the last month of Sarajevo's significant growth. I hope at least it will see a small passenger increase in November.
ReplyDeleteI expect that numbers will decline in November. This time last year, Wizz already had a base in SJJ.
DeleteHopefully they find a replacement.
DeleteGood recovery by most
ReplyDeletePoor Maribor
ReplyDeleteThe government doesn't care. They still haven't adopted a new spatial plan which is crucial for any investor to take the airport. The Chinese left because the government hadn't adopted the spatial plan to allow the airport to expand.
DeleteCrazy
DeleteZadar is doing amazing.
ReplyDeleteActually pretty surprised about Portoroz numbers...the airport is so small and Atr75 is like the biggest plane that can land there and even that is extremly rarely...
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DeleteYes. There are twice as many as Osijek, which has domestic and international regular routes!
DeleteATR from Air Serbia should be a regular guest from the next summer season.
DeleteMy guess is 2x weekly flights.
DeleteBravo Pristina .
ReplyDeleteBelgrade is really distancing itself from the rest of the gang. Hopefully this difference increases in the coming months as JU and others grow.
ReplyDeleteRemember that Split has at least 12 new routes for next year.
DeleteSpilt is a seasonal airport. Belgrade year-round
DeleteYeah, so? You can earn 100€ in 1 day vs 100€ in 5 months. The result is the same.
DeleteBelgrade is getting at least 10 new routes from Air Serbia next year.
DeleteFor now, there are 15 new routes next summer from SPU, 3 of which were discountinued before the pandemic
DeleteGreat for you
DeleteWorth noting that people from Serbia will be able to travel to EU countries unlike this January, February and March. Or unlike to Germany where they were unable to travel until June, or same with Italy. Definitely will impact the numbers.
Delete10:56 Also interesting are daily KTW/KRK combined Wizzair flights
Delete@10.55 it is also getting new routes from Air Baltic and Turkish Airlines at this point.
DeleteBit surprised by poor numbers for Pula…
ReplyDeleteI think Pula had the most flights from Russia out of the Croatian coastal airports which might be a reason why its numbers are low.
DeleteOhrid has also kind of underperformed.
DeletePortoroz is the real winner here, the numbers are incredible for airport without scheduled flights and just show that the airport has potential. Air serbia is surely gonna take the opportunity?
ReplyDeleteMaybe yes! JU will land at Portoroz!
DeleteThey are in talks with them.
DeleteWithout New runway and fully developed Morava Kraljevo not be satisfying position. Let see next year if Morava move forward with development?... 🛫😀✈
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how BHX surpassed OHD and reaching INI levels! When you look into the numbers only 5 years ago, it used to have 20 thousand yearly. Wow, just amazing.
ReplyDeleteBNX - BANJA LUKA ,
DeleteBHX - Birmingham
Seems like there's a high chance of Banja Luka surpassing Nis next year? And possibly entering top ten exyu airports. Who would've thought :) good job tho
ReplyDeleteSkopje is doing really well considering the EU entry ban the first few months of 2022.
ReplyDeleteYes, very well. Half a million behind PRN and still no flights to 1 major European airport.
Delete@16.21 whats wrong with you?
Delete@16.21 there you have LJU for you. main airports but not even 900k
DeleteNothing wrong here, Anon 16:21 is absolutely right 😀
DeleteIt has been the case in the past too except it was Ljubljana instead of Zadar.
ReplyDeleteAny remote chance of Ljubljana reaching 1 million this year?
ReplyDeleteI think it will be close. But without Transavia cancelling AMS because of staff shortage and easyjet, Wizzair reducing London it wouldn´t be questionable.
DeleteFlydubai going daily, lufti upgrading some flights from crj to e95/a319, and air serbia sending a319/a320 will help. Talking to employees, the flights are full everywhere, just the frequiencies arent there
DeleteOne would think if they are full that they would be able to increase frequnecies.
DeleteNot to AMS yet, everyone knows that
DeleteSplit vs Pristina.
ReplyDeleteSplit in 2019 in Nov and Dec had (41.357+45.871) 87.228 pasengers. With an increase of, lets say 35% for Nov+Dec 2022 compared to Nov+Dec 2019, SPU at the end of 2022 Split can be max at 2.950.000
Pristina in Sep 2022 had a ~25% increase compared to Sep 2019; in Oct 2022 had increase ~ 30% compared to Oct 2019. If, Nov+Dec 2022 compared to Nov+Dec 2019 have increase ~ 27-28%, then PRN at the end of 2022 will have ~2.990.000 - 3.000.000 pax.
Montenegro keeps winning 👏
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha
DeleteEx-Yu can get 10 or maybe 11 airports (9 current + TIV + LJU) with more than a million pax each, everything more than would be unrealistic
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to add data for Cargo traffic as well....
ReplyDeleteEveryone together less than PMI, third in Spain
ReplyDeleteYes, that really puts things in perspective, for all this grandstanding we are all still a "vukojebina".
DeleteTop 6 airports have 70% market share and Top 10 have 90% market share.
ReplyDeleteSo HR slightly more than 9M ,RS cca 5M
ReplyDeleteThat number remains the only advantage Cro has and is being repeated all the time. Given the fact DBV, SPU and ZAG have all been renovated while KVO, NIS and BEG are undergoing or are planned for expansion, it will be interesting to see if gap between countries will close in the coming years. BEG operator alone planned to have 15M passengers in the future.
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