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The Kosovo Civil Aviation Authority recently issued a public call which will enable carriers registered in the European Union to be issued a permit to maintain flights between Pristina and cities in Switzerland, bypassing current regulatory limitations. Switzerland is not part of the European Union and regulates its air traffic rights based on air service agreements. According to the Kosovo Civil Aviation Authority, “In the Air Service Agreement between Kosovo and Switzerland of 2009, the two parties agreed that they can designate an unlimited number of domestic air operators to fly between the two. Since Kosovo does not have a domestic airline, Switzerland has agreed in the Bilateral Agreement for Kosovo to designate an EU or Swiss operator”. As a result, interested carriers from the EU have until early next week to apply with the Civil Aviation Authority in order to be considered for a permit. EU carriers are currently limited to operating flights between Pristina and Basel, as the latter's airport is considered to be within French territory. Switzerland is Pristina Airport’s largest market. Last year, 36% of its passengers were flying to or from Switzerland with Basel and Zurich being the airport’s two busiest routes.
Even more flights to Switzerland?
ReplyDeleteIn COVID, Pristina-Basel was the busiest route in Europe.
DeleteStrange. Trade Air, GP Aviation, Bul Air, Condor are already performing strong in PRN. Oddly seeing Bulgarian Air Charter flights operating for Bul Air to CH and DE.
ReplyDeletePRN similar to SKP are strong gasto airports. The Albanian diaspora is huge and what is impressive is that PRN ended 2023 with almost 3,5 million passengers. This figure is expected to rise much more following EU visa liberation. Maybe PRN ends up with a FR base. Who knows?
FR would need fat incentives to start a PRN base
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DeleteBul Air and European Air Charter operates for GP Aviation Switzerland. It's ACMI not own flights.
A virtual airline without an AOC can wet lease an aircraft from a bearly operating airline in this insane world. Hopefully, this sarcastic comedy will end happily since it mocks all common sense of air travel.
DeleteMost likely they are trying to fly into Bern Airport,as Bern airport is mostly seasonal and has lower costs then ZRH
DeleteBasel Airport is considered 'French Territory'?
ReplyDeleteWhat! Why! I'm a little lost here 🤓
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is situated 8km (5 miles) northwest of Basel (in Switzerland), 25km (15.5 miles) south of Mulhouse (in France) and 70km (43 miles) south of Freiburg (in Germany). The airport is wholly within France, but is close to the Swiss and German borders.
Delete@14:11 Why are you lost? The airport is in France. If you go there, you have to cross the border from Switzerland to France.
DeleteBasel is located in Mulhouse, hence the name Basel-Mulhouse.
DeleteSome of it wrong. The EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg is situated on the territory of France. But: By bi-national agreements and contracts, it has two sectors. That0s unique in the whole world. You can leave or enter the airport from Basel on a tollfree road including bus and taxi services. And you can enter or leave it on the other side from or to France. No "borders" have to be crossed, and both sides of the airport have full airport services. Furthermore, internally, you can cross the (formal) border between France and Switzerland.
DeleteAlways wondered why Easyjet Switzerland isnt flying to PRN, SKP, BEG from ZRH
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Delete1-ZRH is way too expensive to operate with U2 business model 2-impossible to get slots from LH cartell in ZRH
DeleteFor same reason they don't fly to any destination from ZRH. They don't operate any flights from ZRH at all.
DeleteLol @20.26,@20.30 they fly frm ZRH, next time check first before you write here
Delete@20:26 You are talking about a "Lufthansa cartel" but you are completely clueless. easyJet flies from Zurich to NINE destinations. That's more routes than all their Serbia and Montenegro network combined.
DeleteThanks guys. I wasn't aware the Airport serving Basel in Switzerland is located in France proper 😄
ReplyDeleteBTW GP flights are on sale on their website:
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DeleteSotry but that webpage is "krš i lom". Its the identical "software" used by the other famiglia Reisebüros
DeleteSomeone here had mentioned that GP Aviation was in talks with the aviation authorities to become a national carrier. Anything more on the matter?
ReplyDeleteSure they're talking to the authorities, unfortunately illegally. Call is set up so they're the only ones who can take part.
DeleteA swiss airline will be the national carrier of the Balkan country....
DeleteAir Albania is dying in TIA, let them come to Prishtina..
ReplyDeleteSwiss should start flying from zrh-prn since they also fly from geneva because edelweiss is a joke tbh
ReplyDeleteThey use their a340 in the summer, but yeah for transit passengers Edelweiss isn’t an option
Deletewhy is Edelweiss not an option for transit? They codeshare with Swiss
DeleteEasyjet flies between SKP and Geneva.
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