All capital city airports from the former Yugoslavia are expected to see passenger growth next month when compared to October in both 2022 and the pre-pandemic 2019, based on available seat capacity levels.
Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in October, standing at 881.738. The figure represents an increase of 35.9% on last year and up 29.4% on 2019. Air Serbia continues to maintain its position as the largest carrier, holding 50.4% of all available capacity at the airport. Zagreb follows as the second largest airport with 450.021 available seats on scheduled flights during the month. It represents an increase of 0.5% on last year and is up 7.5% on 2019. Croatia Airlines will retain its position as the largest carrier at the airport, with 37.2% of available capacity, ahead of Ryanair with a 29.2% share.
Skopje Airport boasts 316.858 seats in October, up 34.9% on last year and an improvement of 33.8% on 2019. Wizz Air will hold a 60.2% share of available seats at the airport. Pristina Airport will have 236.194 available seats, however, it has numerous flights sold exclusively through tour operators which are considered as charters. Therefore, these are not included in overall scheduled seat capacity. If only seats on scheduled flights are taken into account, the airport sees an increase of 18.3% in capacity on last year and 31.7% on 2019.
Podgorica Airport has close to 200.000 seats on sale next month, up 9.2% and 19.9% on 2022 and 2019 respectively. Sarajevo Airport has 149.580 seats available this October, which is up 3.8% on last year and should see the airport return to growth following several months of declining figures. Capacity is up 25% on the pre-pandemic 2019. Turkish Airlines will be its largest carrier with a 21.8% capacity share, Finally, Ljubljana Airport will see capacity levels exceed the pre-pandemic era with Adria Airways declaring bankruptcy in September 2019. It boasts 137.118 seats this October, up 6% on 2019. The figure is an improvement of 24.5% on last year. Ljubljana’s largest carrier by seats next month is Lufthansa with a 14.9% share, just ahead of Turkish Airlines, which will have only 182 fewer seats compared to its German counterpart with a 14.7% share.
Largest carriers by scheduled seat capacity in the former Yugoslavia, October 2023
Interesting to see growth in capacity in Zagreb just a half a percent up on last year.
ReplyDeleteIt is nothing.
DeleteLCCs dominating as largest airlines in ex-Yu.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same case in most markets in Europe.
DeleteNice to see LJU on the mend.
ReplyDeleteOn the mend because in October 2019 Adria was gone. Compared to 2018 it is still a disaster.
DeleteFully agree to @anon 09:06. Only 6% up from the worst month in LJU history (excluding dark era of COVID) is a disaster to Slovenian air transport connectivity. Would be interesting to see the comparison to 2018.
Delete@ 9:11
DeleteTalk about exaggeration! LJU has never experienced a substantial increase in passenger numbers beyond its current figures. It hasn't plummeted from 15 million passengers to 5 million and is gradually rebounding. So, let's keep things in perspective. LJU consistently hovers around 1.2 to 1.8 million passengers and doesn't seem to surpass this mark, regardless of having a national carrier or not.
Anon @09:30, you can look from that perspective as well and pretend that everything is OK. LJU lost a decade as they are reaching the same figures today as 10 years ago. Some people are happy with that, as they are not directly dependant on air transport connectivity. But look where the other airports in the region were 10 years ago and where they are now...
DeleteNow it will be interesting to see when the passenger numbers are out to see how big of a load factor each airport has on its flights.
ReplyDeletethere are charter flights too
Delete^ not a whole lot in October.
DeleteInteresting info
ReplyDeleteI like reading this sort of data. Always interesting. And it can actually give you a good sense of what the growth will be at the airports.
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DeleteVery good numbers for most overall.
ReplyDeleteWould not want to see the comparison for Tuzla...
ReplyDeleteDecrease of around 80%
DeleteDisaster
DeleteWell done. Most of them have really impressed a lot this year
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say so. Zagreb growth of just 0.5% on last year is not impressive. Neither is Ljubljana's growth of just 6% when it lost almost all flights.
DeleteYeah but that's just one month for ZAG. Throughout the year it had a healthy increase on last year and 2019. Then over the sumer months the increase on 2019. went down to only a few percent with a record low of just 0.9%. Now at least the growth on the record year is back at 7.5%.
DeleteMost capitals are improving. Podgorica will probably surpass 2019. on an annual level too.
Sarajevo still has a chance despite the unfortunate circumstances with Wizz Air.
Only Ljubljana won't get there this year.
Zadar and Belgrade are absolute champs over all, whereas the biggest letdown is Rijeka. Pula and Tivat have suffered in similar ways, but they're recovering. Out of the largest airports Dubrovnik is the slowest in its recovery.
Big Wizz share in SKP.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what it is on an annual basis.
DeleteAbout the same as in October.
DeleteOfc it will be big. We pay them to have base here, and it very well expected that they are at the top which is normal. What is wrong with u people? In fact W6 has more share in Skp then JU in its own hub and OU in Zag. Yes we need some competition and new airlines but Wizz Air should remain at this stage.
Delete"What is wrong with u people?"
DeleteWhat is your problem? No one said that it should big or small.
@9.33 that what you "paid" is peanuts compared to the volume of the base and you certainly didnt pay for this year at all....
DeleteWhat is the approximate number of transfer passengers in Belgrade? 200,000? + that they fly twice (eg SVO-BEG-TIV).
ReplyDeleteSystem of passengers counting is the same in whole world, so Belgrade is not any exception here.
DeletePassenger that flies SPU-ZAG-FRA is also counted "twice" although this expression is wrong as each pax is counted once on its flight leg.
BEG has approx. 25% - 30% of transfer traffic.
That is, 30% of BEG passengers are transfer passengers?😮😮😮
Delete^ You might not want to trust everything some anonymous person writes in the comments section.
DeleteIn my opinion it's really around 200,000? This is not small, but against the background of high traffic it is small.
Delete09:22
DeleteIt means that BEG has more transfer traffic than IST? LOL
How do you figure that?
DeleteBEG numbers are around 100.000 transfer pax (total of 200.000 counting them "twice"), which is around 50.000 inbound and 50.000 outbound.
Delete11:28 I think it's much more. I think between 500-600k people.(1 p2p passengers you count=2 transfer passenger=4) Only the ex yu region is 180k transfer pax for BEG. But BEG still remains the busiest airport with p2p travel in ex yugo. Because 500-600k is not a lot compared to 8 million passengers.
Delete@anon 10:00h
DeleteYes, it should be trusted about the information you have no bloody idea about.
Jirzi Marek, interview on 11.02.2023
"Our expectations for 2023 are high. We plan to carry over 3 milllion passengers, with more than 30% being transferred (25% in 2022)"
https://airwaysmag.com/air-serbia-ceo-long-haul-airline/
You are welcome.
That is Air Serbia, not BEG. Other airlines have no transfer pax at BEG, so it`s way less than 20%.
DeleteI tried to do the math. About 300,000 are coming out. Agree?
DeleteEver heard of code share? You know it is the case when Turkish, Qatar, Aegean, Air Baltic, Tarom etc, bring their passengers in BEG where JU flies them further. Aren't they transfer passengers?
DeleteOnly these 5 carriers have weekly more than 45 flights to Belgrade. And you say other airlines have no transfer in BEG...
Mind you, we haven't talked here about interline passengers who also transfer from other companies through BEG.
Additionally the number of JU transfer passenges is in absolute numbers higher than predicted by Marek back in February for approx 25%.
Increasing JU share in BEG traffic means that percentage of traffic passengers in BEG also grows and comes to approx. 25%.
What is the point of this discussion? Is the original poster trying to discredit somehow BEG's results because it has transfer passengers. Most airports should strive to have both transfer and P2P passengers. Having purely P2P passengers means you are either a small unimportant airport, a seasonal airport in a tourist destination or the airport's management isn't doing a very poor job.
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DeleteChat GPT says:
DeleteIf Air Serbia says it will serve 4 million passengers for 2023, and 30% of them are transfer traffic, then the number of transfer passengers would be:
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So, approximately 1,200,000 passengers will be transfer traffic
Anon 14:10 Wow, what a load of bs. How can you even have a substantial amount of transfer passengers if you don't have a strong national carrier?
DeleteWhat comes out of these debates? What is the approximate number?
DeleteWell not surprised about Wizz being the biggest with bases in BEG and SKP.
ReplyDeleteSkopje has been a quiet achiever this year. Well done.
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DeleteLots of new airlines this year.
DeleteAnd it seems like it will continue next year too.
DeleteStill no middle eastern carrier either, surely at least one will come back soon. Turkish will start flying into Australia in a few months which might replace Qatar as an Australia-Macedonia route but I think Dubai connection will return.
Delete@14:33 Do you have a source that Turkish will start Australia flights?
DeleteShould be easy to find on google but here you go https://simpleflying.com/turkish-airlines-application-australia-flights/
DeleteActually today they announced it will be delayed until early 2024 as they don't have government approval.
Montenegro keeps winning!
ReplyDeleteWhat did they win?
DeletePassenger traffic and its economic impact.
DeleteTivat airport keeps losing.
DeleteSkopje has the biggest improvement compared to 2019. Bravo TAV!
ReplyDeleteSkopje is doing very well but Ohrid is struggling. Though it seems Ohrid as a tourist destination is becoming more renowned, so hopefully new routes soon.
DeleteSkopje since July I think has every month 300K pax , I think this never happend before ? Well done great progress , and new airlines and destinations coming on!!!
ReplyDeleteYes it has never been done before. Skp will easly handle 3M next year.
DeleteYes this year will come close to 3m but next will be more then that.
DeleteGreat improvement!
What is the annual capacity of Skopje's terminal?
Delete4.000.000 passengers per year
DeleteThe terminal has capacity but the thing is that most of the flights depart between certain parts of the day, 10 flights between 2AM and 6AM and 10 between 18pm and 21pm, at those times the airport is quite busy.
DeleteBefore the Covid happend there was serious talks about new terminal building at SKP , I think from next year the TAV people must take react fast and start procedures of increasing capacity of the terminal.
DeleteWhat is max capacity at SKP now?
Delete4 mil
DeleteSo JU holds about 400,000 seats in October.. Let's say the load ends up around 75%, that's 300, 000 pax. If this continues throughout Nov and Dec, that's close to additional 1,000,000 pax.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think they will certainly have over 4 million passengers this year.
DeleteDont forget that they hit the 3 million mark on September 15th, so they have three and a half months to hit a million. I believe it is duable
DeleteBtw todays flight from Skopje to Ljubljana will be full. 170 seats out of 180 are already taken so far.
ReplyDeleteGreat news. What about inbound?
DeleteThats great , I am sure that this route will be busy every flight.
DeleteAround 100 on the inbound but not everybody are checked in yet.
DeleteSince when have they a A320 at SKP
DeleteThat flight is in the evening so lots of time. Writing this from SKP airport
Delete1 seat left on the Ljubljana - Skopje flight today
Delete10:23 they brought two A320s two weeks ago as two A321s had to be based elsewhere due to the engine problems with the A321neo. But the A320s are deployed on the busiest routes such as DTM and FMM. Ljubljana is scheduled with A321 this winter i think and there will be three A320s and three A321s based at skp.
DeleteFala!
Deletethey were flying a321 right?
DeleteIt was an a320 today, but the a321 is scheduled for the next flights
DeleteGoodmorning ! Does anyone know if charters flights of those airlines counts in this list of the available capacity ? Thanks a lot !
ReplyDeleteNo, it says clearly in the article that figures include only scheduled flights, not charters.
DeleteBut that's only for Prishtina.
DeleteIt's for all of them. Look at the first sentence where BEG is mentioned.
DeleteSKP is 3th busiest airport on the balkan in Octomber , Wooow this is amazing , so SKP shows that it is not just summer airport it is all year round , which is great success !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, rights after Istanbul and Athens...
Delete4th in ex-yu not 3rd in balkan.
DeleteSt*pid comparasion buddy , accept the reality SKP make's great results so far , and it will make in future too
DeleteWhatever rocks your bo(a)t.
Delete10:11 yes Skp makes wonderful results, but it is a fact that we are 4th in ex-yu behind BEG, ZAG, PRN. If compared to the Balkan, TIA, SOF, VAR, IST, ATH, Thessaloniki, Burgas and others are in front of us.
DeleteWhere is Prishtina in frount of us in Octomber ? I am speaking about Octomber
DeleteOctomber is right after Semptember
DeleteLol
DeleteYou are so smart and thats why you put Istanbul in balkan region 🤣🤣🤣 go visit google.com and learn more where Istanbul is then come here and pretend smart guy
DeleteOnly European part of Istanbul is in Balkans.
DeleteAnd the airport is in the european part, i dont need google for that.
DeleteTrue dat.
DeleteAnon@13:40 look'in very foolish.
11:49 Prishtina e pred nas sekoj mesec, pishuva deka vo tie brojki ne spagjaat sedishtata koi shto se nudat na charter letovi, a 50% of letovite vo PRN se charter, otvori flight radar i vidi.
DeleteKazhuva nekoj shto nikogash ne go iskoristil Skopskiot aerodrom.
DeleteAny words for the commence of flights to Luxembourg and Stuttgart from SKP, weren't they supposed to be started in October?
ReplyDeleteNope
DeleteThey will likely start during 2024 summer
DeleteHope so
DeleteLuxembourg will start in mid december when the 6th jet will be deployed. There is no room for the other two routes ( Salzburg and Stuttgart ) to be launched with this number of aircrafts deployed.
DeleteSo Salzburg and Stuttgart will be launched next year ?
DeleteMost likely when the 7th plane is parked in Skopje
DeleteWonder if this time next year Air Serbia will overtake Wizz as largest airline in ex-Yu. Seems possible
ReplyDeleteQuite possible.
DeleteSuch a shame Ryanair doesn’t come to Sarajevo, maybe one day lol
ReplyDeleteAdmin do you have the numbers for SOF, TIA and SKG?
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