NEWS FLASH
Pristina Airport welcomed 290.753 passengers through its doors in May, representing an increase of 12.8% compared to its previous best result last year, and up 59.8% on the pre-pandemic 2019. The number of aircraft movements stood at 1.882, up 7.1%. So far this year, the airport handled 1.236.015 travellers, up 16.2% on last year, or an additional 172.335 travellers.
A bit surprising that PRN had more passengers in April than in May. Is it possible Easter holidays created this unusual difference?
ReplyDeleteNot unusual for an airport whose 90% of traffic is generated by the diaspora who come when they have holidays in their new adopted country, in this case easter.
DeleteEid and Ramadan was in April too so I think that’s why there were even more passengers
DeleteSo business and tourism travel is close to zero
Delete11.58 Yes. Who even goes to Kosovo for vacation?
DeleteThat's enough for today
Delete12:05 you would be surprised how nice it is to go to Kosovo for a holiday and ever increasing numbers of people do.
DeleteNot really. Tourism numbers are extremely low to have any meaningful impact on air travel.
Delete@Anon12:49,
DeleteCan you present to us official numbers of turists in Kosovo, or you are just assuming that numbers are “extremly low”.
1 Albania 37,141
Delete2 Germany 17,178
3 Turkey 14,848
4 United States 13,875
5 Switzerland 13,151
6 North Macedonia 7,842
7 Serbia 7,475
8 United Kingdom 6,482
9 Italy 6,292
10 Croatia 5,926
11 Others 53,522
Total 192,761
The most non visited country in the Balkans.
Source: Wikipedia
I wonder how exactly they identify a tourist in Kosovo. Many foreigners there are part of Eulex or KFOR and many are actually from Kosovo just visiting friends and family.
DeleteMaybe only tourists in hotels, villas.
DeleteVery very weak tourist numbers.
DeleteLots of tourists are these days in Prishtina and amazed with how it has developed. PRN will grow and grow!
Delete🤦♂️
DeleteBravo PRN!
ReplyDeletevisa free will help PRN
ReplyDeleteIs there any change in the airport operation? Austrian, Pegasus en Turkish changed their night flights. All aircraft now arrive before 23:00 and do not depart before 06:00. Just a coincidence with the summer schedule or did I miss anything?
ReplyDeleteOngoing works
DeleteApart from Condor, will you see other new airlines and destinations in the summer of 2023?
ReplyDeleteSunexpress started Antalya-Pristina the other day
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/p/sunexpress-antalya-pristina.html
I'm on five brandies.
ReplyDeleteBoy this market is on fire!
I expect Ryanair to eat the mafia tour operators like in Tirana yesterday.
There were never mafia tour operators in Tirana
DeleteDecember seems a record too. Prishtina will grow even more.
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