Pristina handles over half a million passengers in single month

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Pristina Airport registered its busiest month on record and the first time it handled over half a million passengers within a single monthly period. In August, it welcomed 513.798 travellers through its doors, representing an increase of 14.6% on the same month last year. During the January - August period, Pristina Airport handled 3.117.249 passengers, up 15.1% year-on-year, or an additional 410.052 travellers.


Pristina’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, August 2025


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  1. Anonymous10:32

    wow. Impressive!

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  2. Anonymous10:33

    Surpassed Zagreb in August. PRN is traditionally strong in winter. It will be interesting to see who has more passengers at the end of the year.

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    1. Anonymous10:34

      It surpassed them by overall passenger numbers as well.

      ZAG 3.113.945
      PRN 3.117.249

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    2. Anonymous10:58

      That's because OU is useless. They have a lot more capacity now with A220s but they don't know how to fill their seats.

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    3. Viktor Kunovski11:21

      Better than ZAG - that is amazing.

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    4. Anonymous11:25

      Who would have thought, right? Especially after we read analyses of the exploding numbers FR will bring.

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    5. Anonymous12:50

      It could be also some prefer to fly directly to coast instead via Zagreb, with so many direct flights today. Croatian pax figures this August look amazing, I must say, but there has to be some pax overflow between the airports, while PRN stays a sole commercial airport there...

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    6. Anonymous13:24

      @1250, yes but you are comparing a 40k km2 country with a 10k km2 and considering the odd shape of Croatia, you can not serve the whole country by a single airport. And PRN is not without competition. There is SKP as the main competitor. Kukes Airport and Nis Airport tired to get PRN pax but both failed. Also, if you compare the catchment area, ZAG serves to about 1,5m population within Croatia, being the main airport for Zagreb, Sisak, Karlovac, Varaždin, which are also about 10k km2 in area.

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    7. Anonymous13:46

      ZAG and LJU are also to close proximity to eachother

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    8. Anonymous16:00

      Many factors are in play, but I think it's fair to say Zagreb would be much bigger airport, maybe the biggest in region, if there were no coast airports, similar to Tirana today. But that's just hypothetical and, at the end of the day, pairs Tirana/Belgrade or Pristina/Zagreb are not competitors at all and have completelly indipendent development so, beside funny comments, there's no need for comparison at all...

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  3. Anonymous10:34

    Bravo GP Aviation 👏 The engine of the growth in PRN.

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  4. Anonymous10:48

    Huge jump for August. Given that it is the busiest month of the year, double digit growth is impressive.

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  5. Anonymous08:08

    End of the year Zagreb will have 100k more passengers than Pristina , even more

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  6. Anonymous09:19

    Its a big shame that limak have been chosen to run this airport!!!! Old terminal building is just roting and not being maintaned, This building could take LLC low cost airlines. They have such a huge potensial….

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    1. Anonymous11:53

      Why operate two airports when the current one can be expanded easily? It was designed to be expanded when needed and they should start doing so by expanding the south side. More checkin area is needed as it gets crowded very easily.

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    2. Anonymous15:12

      11:53 Because of the huge taxes and tariffs limak have invented ryanair wont start flights. There is a huge potensial for FR to start from Germany and scandinavia. There have also been a debate why the old terminal was not included in the agreement. You are naming the new terminal, I flow there this summer and its packed we had to wait 40 min just to check in our bags. The new terminal building was made for Io to 4 million passenger capacity and i dont belive limak is going to extend or build out new terminal without a new 20 year conssesion agreement, They got extended their consession with 2 more years because of the runway have been build out. This is not good and business owners are moving from the new terminal because rents are so high

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