EX-YU airports to see mixed December, Wizz becomes largest airline


Three capital city airports in the former Yugoslavia are expected to see their passenger numbers decline in December when compared to last year, based on available scheduled seat capacity levels. Wizz Air will become the busiest carrier during the final month of the year, despite significantly reducing operations compared to 2023.

Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in December, standing at 755.560. The figure represents a decrease of 12.7% on 2023. Wizz Air is the main culprit for the decline, reducing its capacity by 30.5% year-on-year and wiping out 56.650 seats off the market. Air Serbia will continue to maintain its position as the largest carrier, holding 51.5% of all available scheduled capacity at the airport. Zagreb follows as the second largest with 410.398 available seats on scheduled flights during the month. It represents an increase of 7.7% on last year. Croatia Airlines will retain its position as the largest carrier at the airport, with 38.3% of available capacity. It is followed by Ryanair with 29.5% of all available seats.

Skopje Airport will again be impacted by Wizz Air’s frequency cuts during the month, boasting 268.110 seats in December, down 13.3%. Wizz Air, which has reduced capacity by 23.9%, or 48.150 seats, will hold a 57.2% share, while Pegasus Airlines comes second with a 11.6% share. Pristina Airport will have 264.267 available seats, however, it has numerous flights sold exclusively through tour operators which are considered as charters. Therefore, these are not included in the overall scheduled seat capacity. If only seats on scheduled flights are taken into account, the airport sees an increase of 11.6% in capacity on last year. easyJet has the largest volume of scheduled seats, holding an 22% share, ahead of Wizz Air with 19.3%.

Sarajevo Airport has 170.392 scheduled seats on the market in December, representing an increase of a whopping 63% on 2023. Pegasus Airlines, which has increased its capacity by 56.7% year-on-year, is the largest carrier with 17.3% of capacity, followed by Turkish Airlines with 12%. Ryanair, which commenced operations to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital this summer, will be the third largest airline in December. Podgorica Airport has 118.016 seats on scheduled flights in December, an increase of just 0.2% on 2023. Turkish Airlines is the largest with 25.6% of total capacity, ahead of Air Serbia with 17.2%. Air Montenegro comes fourth, behind the two largest, as well as Wizz Air. Finally, Ljubljana Airport has 111.824 seats available this December, which is down 7.9% on last year. Turkish Airlines will be its largest carrier with a 19.3% capacity share, ahead of Lufthansa with 14.3% of scheduled capacity.

Largest carriers by scheduled seat capacity in the former Yugoslavia, December 2024




Comments

  1. Anonymous09:00

    Bravo Fraport!

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    1. Anonymous09:14

      Bravo Vinci too!

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    2. Anonymous10:19

      Vinci should ask Wizz Air where did they find capacity for growth in Katowice and I think Krakow while in BEG they reduced their capacity by a third.

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    3. Anonymous10:35

      W6 did not cut capacity equally on all of its bases. Some have even grown despite their engine problems.
      It chose to deploy aircrafts strategically. Where is sees higher growth opportunities and where profit margins are higher.

      Just my2cents

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    4. Anonymous10:42

      Spot on they are a business trying to make money they deploy assets where required.

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    5. Anonymous10:46

      W6 did not reduce capacity in TIA either, or in ATH and LCA with the exception of flights to TLV.
      If it wasn't for the troubles in Israel (where W6 had a very big operation) relieving some aircraft cuts would have been larger to its European network.

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    6. Anonymous10:59

      Wizz did cut some capacity in TIA, for example their latest cut is the termination of NYO flights. I think in BEG they don't care because they know JU is useless and can't attack them.

      In Poland they have LOT and Ryanair always attacking them. LO just announced flights to MLA after 4 years. Directly attacking Wizz.

      JU is really Wizzier than Wizz since they are not growing this year.

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    7. Anonymous11:00

      They cut capacity where they don't have competition from Ryanair.

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    8. Anonymous11:01

      ^^^
      FR really keeps W6 on its toes!

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    9. Anonymous11:06

      We will see what Ryanair does. They are also short on planes and after they reported disappointing financial results they cut a lot of flights, a lot in TIA as well.

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    10. Anonymous11:10

      @11.00 exactly

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    11. Anonymous11:17

      MAX deliveries are slower than anticipated but FR still has over 600 737s to play with.

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    12. Anonymous12:26

      They certainly like to play

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    13. Anonymous16:10

      Ryanair disappointing financial results????

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  2. Anonymous09:01

    Podgorica close to negative territory

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    1. Anonymous09:02

      Because of Ryanair. Just one route left.

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    2. Anonymous09:40

      If Fraport managed LJU decently, then LJU would be about TGD

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  3. Anonymous09:03

    What or who is Chair airlines?
    Albanian carrier?

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    1. Anonymous09:04

      Swiss led by Albanian management. They have flights to PRN and SKP in ex-Yu.

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    2. Anonymous09:08

      Svajcarska kompanija, gazdarica je iz Skoplja naselje Cair. Simbolika CH-AIR Svajcarska Air, a i naselje iz Skoะฟlja ะงะะ˜ะ .

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    3. Anonymous09:48

      Thanks for explanation dear fellow exyuaviation geeks! :)

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    4. Anonymous11:17

      OHD too

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    5. Anonymous11:27

      @9.08 that story sounds fun but its not exactly correct;) she has roots from MK though

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    6. Anonymous11:43

      Yes Chair is city ditstrict in Skopje where mostly Albanians live

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    7. Anonymous11:51

      has nothing to do with the name of the airline

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    8. Anonymous14:05

      Kosovo and Macedonia are important markets for Ch air because of the big diaspora living in Swiss ...

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    9. Anonymous14:52

      and frankly they are more successful than Swiss/Edelweiss in both markets

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    10. Anonymous15:03

      Chair Airlines is proceeder of Germania Flug that was sold to Air Prishtina in February 2019. Later that year (on June) changed the name to CHAIR that means CH for Swiss and AIR for airlines. It has nothing to do with ฤŒair in Skopje. It’s pure Kosovo Albanian Airlines based in Switzerland

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_Airlines

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    11. Anonymous07:21

      Ch air is more charter or leisure oriented airline. It is interesting that two Albanian airlines are directly competing in Pristina market. Definitely specific case when it comes to Europe, three different Airlines competing on single destination with relatively small market.Wow I don't understand how Chair is profitable in that environment.

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  4. Anonymous09:05

    Did Air Serbia capacity in Belgrade shrink in Dec compared to last year?

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    1. Anonymous09:12

      Yes. This year only one Embraer jet is flying while last year Marathon birds were in full utilization.

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    2. Anonymous10:20

      This year they have three Embraers flying, one E95 and two E90.
      Seems like they cut A319/320 and ATR capacity.

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    3. Anonymous10:42

      Only one JU Embraer is flying (YU-ATB), the rest are parked.
      There is also one wet leased from Bulgaria Air (LZ-BUR).

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    4. Anonymous11:06

      So they returned the second Bulgaria Air E90? Didn't they have two of them?

      Quo vadis ASL.

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    5. Anonymous11:47

      They didn't. They have 2 Bulgaria Air E190s - LZ-BUR and LZ-SOF and 1 JU E195. The amount of people that make things up here in the comments is staggering.

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    6. Anonymous12:27

      Well someone wrote that only one E90 is flying. Why are you so aggressive and nervozan?

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    7. Anonymous12:29

      It would take 2 seconds to check yourself.

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    8. Anonymous12:36

      So easy to check:
      https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/lz-sof (Bulgaria Air flying for Air Serbia - flying today)
      https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/lz-bur (Bulgaria Air flying for Air Serbia - flying today)
      https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/yu-atb (Air Serbia - NOT flying today, at least not scheduled to so far).


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    9. Anonymous12:58

      That is low utilization of YU-ATB.

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  5. Anonymous09:11

    "Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in December, standing at 755.560. The figure represents a decrease of 12.7% on 2023"

    Ouch! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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    1. Anonymous09:27

      Don’t get too excited, dude. This is just scheduled seats. You will be very disappointed when real results are revealed, like every month, every year so far… sorry….

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    2. Anonymous23:01

      State meddling in what should be the domain of private business is suffocating growth at BEG

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    3. Anonymous23:02

      Yes, the state has meddled with Wizz Air's engine inspections. Some of you need help.

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  6. Anonymous09:38

    Well done Sarajevo, as always!

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    1. Anonymous09:41

      SJJ is the leader of the region.
      Tremendous growth!

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    2. Anonymous09:56

      ^ By growth, right?

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    3. Anonymous11:00

      In every way actually, best run and most modern airport right now.

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    4. Anonymous11:03

      Sorry but that's a complete misconception created by certain experts who have a financial interest. Massive lines at the airport, unfriendly staff, dirty in front of the airport. The growth was created by tourism board's subsidies not the airport and the percentile growth is so big because the base number was so low.

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    5. Anonymous11:05

      Oh wow, I didn't know that. Why are the lines so long? Do they lack staff?

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    6. Anonymous11:07

      Best run but its management just got fired! And that is everything you need to know about our region! ๐Ÿ˜‚

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    7. Anonymous11:09

      That is also questionable. The fired management has some serious corruption allegations against them involving the terminal expansion (which was late 2 years)

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    8. Anonymous11:12

      @11.0 most modern airport right now??

      just spilled my coffee from laughing

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    9. Anonymous11:38

      Didn't they also expand the airport on the territory of Srpska without their approval? Anyone know what other corruption allegations there are against them?

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    10. Anonymous14:01

      Impresive!

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    11. Anonymous19:00

      No allegations of corruption It is current politics. Management is excellent. And it is being expanded on its own land

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    12. Anonymous14:42

      Oh, leave the envious people alone! They can't stand the fact that Sarajevo is good.

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    13. Anonymous14:45

      https://avaz.ba/vijesti/bih/635558/celnik-aerodroma-sarajevo-alan-bajic-u-centru-korupcijskog-skandala

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  7. Anonymous09:52

    Bravo OU!

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  8. Anonymous10:24

    It’s scandalous how demand in BEG is still growing but there is no capacity to cover it, a huge lesson for all carriers this year.

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    1. Anonymous10:29

      It's a huge lesson for Vinci especially.
      If they had attracted more carriers to serve BEG all that demand for air travel could have been served when engine and capacity troubles prevented W6 and JU from doing so

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    2. Anonymous11:01

      Exactly, Vinci did nothing and they need to do more.

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    3. Anonymous11:14

      I'm not so sure the ministry of transport would be excited if Vinci attracted more competitors to JU. Especially LCCs.

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    4. Anonymous11:34

      Actually VINCI has this month finally brought some new people from France to BEG (up until now only CEO was from France). So expect some changes.

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    5. Anonymous14:23

      Maybe they will
      Bring new people but do not forget that gov is owner of AirSerbia and they will do anything to protect it. But lets see what will
      Happen in next months

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    6. Anonymous15:53

      What exactly ZAG did to attract Wizz?

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  9. Anonymous11:10

    biggest meh is easyjet with only 66k

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  10. Anonymous11:38

    TK biggest in Ljubljana for second month in a row.

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    1. Anonymous10:38

      And the entire winter timetalbe will be.

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  11. Anonymous13:55

    Bravo Pristina!
    It's growing a lot.

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  12. Anonymous19:28

    Bravo Sarajevo!

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