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Niš Constantine the Great Airport will open its new passenger terminal on July 1. This is despite initial warnings its completion may be delayed until autumn due to the late arrival of equipment related to supply chain problems. However, Serbia’s Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Goran Vesić, said these concerns have been resolved. “The facility will be open and in use by passengers on July 1. Over ten million euros have been invested into the new terminal, while the new equipment will arrive in May, ahead of schedule”. Mr Vesić made the announcement following the signing of an agreement with China’s Shandong Hi-Speed Group for the phased construction and overhaul of the traffic infrastructure and accompanying hydrotechnical, electric power and telecommunication installations within the Niš Airport complex. This involves 976 meters of internal roads, and the development of 53.900 square meters of airport space, out of a total of 80.000 square meters. Furthermore, parking capacity will be increased from the current 173 parking spaces to 580.
The new terminal building will have the capacity to handle 1.5 million passengers per year and up to six aircraft at the same time. It will boast ten check-in desks, self-check-in stations, eight passport control booths, four passenger gates and one VIP gate. Furthermore, it will feature one air bridge and a luggage sorting facility. New food and beverage outlets, as well as duty free shops will be added over an area 700 square metres. Mr Vesić noted, “In the coming years, the existing passenger terminal will be demolished and a new one built and the runway will be overhauled. During work on the railway bypass around Niš, we will free up space for another 300 meters to extend the runway. We also have plans for a new control tower, so we will continue to invest into Niš Airport”.
Hope that we will get some real connections between Belgrade and Nis
ReplyDeleteyou have 4 weekly flights.
DeleteNgl should be daily
DeleteFor who? Are there any passengers on the 4 weekly flights?
DeleteDouble daily to Belgrade both from Niš and Banjaluke are MUST
DeleteFor who? Flights are empty. JU is nor a private taxi company to transport a few passengers every day . Makes 0 sense to fly those flights daily .
DeleteThe fact they are empty now doesn't say much about the potential.
DeleteIt's like opening a restaurant with working hours from 17:00 until 20:00 - of course you wouldn't get many people in this place.
Genuinely interested if there is a successful flight in Europe connecting two cities in the same country (no borders) which, together with airport procedures, takes more time than a drive?
DeleteI'm pretty sure Frankfurt-Munich is successful. Planes are always full and business class is half the plane.
DeleteI booked a flight from Niš to Vienna via Belgrade a month ago. The plane was supposed to land in Vienna at 12, now they moved the departure to 9:00 PM. I had to cancel the tickets. It was the same last time. I wanted to fly from Niš to Milan, the layover in Belgrade changed. I don't want to try anymore
DeleteMany countries have successful internal flights. But it does come down price and timing. The morning and evening buses between Niš and beograd are full.
DeleteSame with the coaches from banja luka. No point in having those odd time flights.
That's what people want.to go to Belgrade in the morning and be able to return in the evening
Those 4am flights! haha no!
Deletepeople take 4am, 5am, buses to beograd so why not?
DeleteThose flights were never meant for the public anyway. It's just so JU can shuttle their planes to INI for the PSO routes they fly out of there. And if it's already flying, might as well sell tickets.
DeleteFrankfurt - Munich is 400km by car, it's more similar to Belgrade - Zagreb than Belgrade - Nis which is some 240km.
DeleteFRA - MUC is also a domestic flight within a rich country where many multi-million euro businesses have enough employees they can send around on business hops, and then, both ends of those flights have countless connection opportunities
DeleteIt is sometimes cheaper to book an AirSerbia flight from Germany to Niš than to Belgrade. I occasionally book a flight to Niš from a city in Germany where I live via Belgrade. I get out in Belgrade with my hand luggage and don't show up for the second leg of the journey. I can imagine that other people do the same, so the flights BEG-INI are mostly empty. It does not necessarily mean they are not being sold. The question is why is this cheaper than just a flight to a Belgrade?
DeleteConnectong flights are aleays cheaper
DeleteConnecting flights are usually cheaper because it's a way for airlines to attract passengers which would otherwise fly directly with their competition. Also, they are less convenient, so they are cheaper.
DeleteIn this case, however, gien that not that many airlines fly to Nis, certainly not from major EU airports, it would make sense for AirSerbia to make connecting flights to Nis more expensive than direct flights to Belgrade. Of course, timing and frequency of the Nis flights would need to be adjusted in order for this offering to be appealing to passengers.
I, for one, would love to fly from London (where I live) to Nis (where my parents live) via Belgrade. But the schedule just never works. So I have to fly to Belgarde, take a taxi to the bus station, take a shitty bus for 3 hours and get to Nis. Missed opportunity for ASL, I think.
@anon 00:37… at least you fly from London. We fly from Sydney and it’s either wait in Istanbul 8 hours (twice a week) or just go to Belgrade and then get the Niš Ekspres to get there. Saves only about 2-3 hours, but is still a time save. Although I’ve used it heading home via Istanbul last year, and I used it when LX was flying there before Covid. This year again using it to fly from to Istanbul and then connecting to Australia from there.
DeleteNis-Belgrade with car is a breeze. The country kinda made a bit useless the airplane connection. Well done on the highway, it is really comfortable and now travelling through Serbia is much faster
DeleteHighway between Belgrade and Nis was finished in 1985. Some other parts of A1 were problematic but Belgrade-Nis is here for decades...
DeleteDouble daily minimum
ReplyDeleteGreat news for INI! Looking forward to seeing many new routes from winter season 24/25!
ReplyDelete??
DeleteIt looks quite nice for a small airport. Браво за Ниш!
ReplyDeleteLooks better than belgrade
Delete+100%
DeleteIt looks nice both airports . Nice to see Serbian gouvermant invest where it should be.
DeleteBravo za Niš!
ReplyDeleteThey really need flights to AMS/EIN.
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Deletethey had
DeleteThis facility can justify the investment only if LIDL buys it ...
ReplyDeleteHaha, good one :)
DeleteINI needs to try to attract more flights from FR, W6 and others LCCs, as well as some charter flights to beach destinations such as Tukey and Egypt.
ReplyDeleteW6 may have expanded but they can’t with so many grounded planes. Summer ‘25 may see a change.
DeleteGreat job, a second air bridge would have made sense. There is a lot of potential here.
ReplyDeleteBravo INI. I cant wait to see the renovations. I am certain, given time, that FR will add destinations. I am also certain that Air Serbia will add more international destinations, and that more airlines will come to Nis.
ReplyDeleteAnd I hope INI can reach one million passengers by 2030.
In July? Next year maybe. This year no chance. Cuz the other part of building is not ready the parking lot is not ready WC not ready.
ReplyDeleteŠto se tiče letova najviše bila gužva za Maltu, Beč, Berlin,Milano ostali letovi(Holandija i švedska)ne toliko. Ali u zadnje vreme dosta kasnio tj otkazao polazak iz Niša wizz air da su morali putnici da angažuju 3-5 autobusa za BG.