All but one capital city airport in the former Yugoslavia will see their capacity levels grow during the last month of the year in December, with Wizz Air remaining the region’s largest carrier.
Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in December, standing at 840.812. The figure represents an increase of 10.9% on 2024. Air Serbia will continue to maintain its position as the largest carrier, holding 47.3% of all available scheduled capacity. Wizz Air will add over 68.000 seats, growing by 52.7% with a total share of 23.5%. Zagreb follows as the second largest with 444.991 available seats on scheduled flights during the month. It represents an increase of 8% on the previous year. Croatia Airlines, which will grow its seat count by 33.381 or 20.9%, will be its largest carrier with 43.3% of total capacity followed by Ryanair with 28.9%. Ryanair will increase capacity by 6%.
Pristina Airport will have 407.756 available seats, with capacity growth currently projected at 3%. GP Aviation has the largest volume of seats, holding a 30% share. It is followed by easyJet with 16.9% of total capacity. Skopje Airport will boast 367.765 seats in December, up 36.6% on the back of Wizz Air’s expansion. The low cost carrier will grow its seat count by 78.344 or 51.1% on the same month in 2024. It will hold the largest share at 63%. It is followed by Pegasus Airlines with an 8.9% share. Sarajevo will have 189.774 scheduled seats on the market in December, representing an increase of 18% on 2024. Ryanair, which is growing its capacity by 21.642 seats or 118.8% year-on-year, is the largest carrier with 21% of total capacity, followed by Pegasus Airlines with 15.3%.
Ljubljana has a total of 131.411 seats on scheduled services, up 20% on December 2024. Turkish Airlines will be the airport’s largest, holding 16.1% of all seats. Following the addition of flights to Manchester and extra frequencies to London, easyJet will become the second largest airline. The low cost carrier will hold a 10.4% capacity share. Finally, Podgorica Airport has 114.560 seats on scheduled flights in December, down 0.4%. The decrease is being primarily fuelled by seventeen fewer Turkish Airlines rotations following the introduction of visa requirements for Turkish nationals. As a result, Air Montenegro will overtake its Turkish counterpart as Podgorica’s largest carrier with a 21.5% share.
Largest carriers by scheduled seat capacity in the former Yugoslavia, December 2025
Wow, did not expect EasyJet being 2nd biggest airline in Ljubljana. Is this because Lufthansa offloaded Munich flights to AirDolomiti?
ReplyDeleteIn any case, let's hope EasyJet announces a few more routes soon
I hope they add some London flights in the summer, tough to imagine, we'll have the same number of flights as last year
DeleteLjubljana is growing but still fragile. One carrier adding or removing a few rotations completely reshapes the ranking.
Deletenothing would change if Lufthansa was still flying instead of Dolomiti
DeleteIt doesn't boast well for the airport that when an airline opens a few flights per week, it then becomes 2nd biggest.
DeleteHuge growth for SKP!
ReplyDeleteAnd Wizz with 63% share!
DeleteW6 adds more seats in SKP than BEG
DeleteIt has a much bigger base in SKP than in BEG...
DeleteThey are adding 6th A321 in SKP this winter with a plan with one more during 2026, if that happend 7 A321 is a enormous capacity
Deletethey uploaded SKP - LJU in DEC26 on 5pw
DeletePossible to see LJU-SKP daily in 2026 in summer
DeleteWizz Air, with 63 % share in SKP is functioning as a national carrier of Macedonia (sort of). The fact that their base in SKP is much bigger than in Beograd, only reinforces that observation.
DeleteAnd what happens when the honeymoon is over?
DeleteHaven't seen Ljubljana in front of Podgorica for a while. Does anyone know how the flights to MAN are performing so far?
ReplyDeleteJudging by the ticket prices, I would say we are in high 80s in terms of load factor
DeleteMy friend was on one of the flights last week and said it was almost full
DeleteMAN route is currently the worst of the 3 new opened up this winter, and even then, the load factor is about 80+% from my experience
DeleteJust goes to show how much of untapped potential Ljubljana still has with turism routes, let it be inbound or outbound traffic
Delete80% for a winter route is decent for an LCC, as long as summers are higher
DeleteA few flights to MAN are almost sold out, so I think the route is a huge success, abeit I can see EDI having even bigger one
DeleteI think that flight to MAN will be full in the summer, UK tourists are really discovering Slovenia lately.
Deletetbh you can see there is new route to UK already in the city center of Ljubljana. Yesterday i was drinking coffee and i was surrounded by brits ... and that never happened before in winter.
DeleteIt's wild to me that LJU can support flights to MAN but BEG can not.
DeleteWhy is it wild?
Delete- UK tourists are one of the largest groups in Slovenia
- Slovenians do not need a visa to enter the UK. A UK visa costs several hundred euros and takes weeks to get
Of course BEG can. But it takes some effort and courage for JU to establish it. With E195 is a no brainer, like another 5-10 European routes right now. Not to mention MENA region
Delete- Serbia is a far larger country.
Delete- It could have had a lot more UK tourists than it currently does.
But you first need flights to more places than just London to have them.
Great. You need just 700 euros for ticket and visa to go to London. Thankfully BEG can sustain year round flights to places like Lisbon, Malta, Larnaca and another 95 destinations despite not being in the EU nd its citizens having much less disposable income than SloveNians. We will survive without Manchester
DeleteSkopje is projected to handle 370k in December or 36.6% ,this is huge numbers for that month... plus Wizz air adds more seats in Skopje than Belgrade... 👏👏
ReplyDeletemm okay?
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DeleteSo where are the Ryanair fans that were saying they will dominate in Ex-yu , I already told you the difference between Wizz and them will be 1 million next year🙄😂
ReplyDeleteimagine they open base in Ljubljana ...
DeleteWizz Air maybe, but Ryanair only in our dreams
DeleteA question about Rynair in Zagreb...Over the winter, do they use Lauda planes? I saw them parked up in the morning, and then when I arrived back to Zagreb at midnight they were still parked on the same spot. Are the winter ops that weak?
ReplyDeleteLast winter I flew with Lauda, so I guess it'll be the same this winter. In general, when flying wit Ryanair from ZAG it's mostly with Lauda planes.
DeleteThey operate with Lauda planes from Zagreb.
DeleteThey have Lauda planes based there, but it might change in 2026 because leases expire and it's not good for them to have these old planes
DeleteIt becomes a trend SKP to handling more than 300k passengers in every single month and not only summer , in winter period too,I did never expect that I am so surprised by Wizz air back and their growth is massive
ReplyDeleteIt is, but very soon SKP will reach the plateau and will not grow much after that, due to the purchasing power of the population in its catchment area. It will grow only as much as the overall economy will grow, which is not much.
DeleteYou copy and paste that same comment snce 10 years now
Delete20:15 not even a clue you dont know what you are saying, SKP growth is scheduled for more than 3 million passengers in 2026 just with Wizz air , plus other airlines, if purchasing power js as you saying, no airline will grow ;) so please stop hating someone's success
DeleteI do think that Podgorica will be hited even worse with the turkish visa issue , this is just beggining, the worse fear is TK still downgrades in future...
ReplyDeletePodgorica has had barely any passenger growth for the entire year much before visa issues with Turkey. This will just be an impact on top.
DeleteThats what I wanted to say barely had any growth this will add a huge impact to their numbers....
DeleteAdmin - where is this picture taken from? which airport?
ReplyDeleteMy guess would say LJU airport
DeleteIt's definitely not LJU. Too mountainous
DeleteIts not lj
DeletePoprad Airport
DeleteStunning!
DeleteI knew I havent seen those picks on ExYu airport.
DeletePretty good growth but shame about TGD.
ReplyDeleteFinally Air Montenegro on top in Podgorica.
DeleteOnly because TK decreased flights
DeleteNice to see Zagreb growing but Croatia Airlines growth is not having much of an impact.
ReplyDeleteThis is just scheduled seats. Does not have much to do with real passenger numbers at the end of the month
DeleteActually it follows capacity growth closely if you look at previous months.
DeleteSkopje’s numbers are crazy. Wizz Air at 63% market share is basically a monopoly. Great for cheap fares but risky for the airport long-term.
ReplyDeleteVery true. Let's hope nothing happens to Wizz :)
DeleteIsn’t it a good moment to establish national airline?
DeleteIf someone with deep pockets wants to give it a shot, but not sure government finances are up to that.
DeleteNothing will happen to airline who have more than 200 aircrafts ;) plus Wizz air will even grow those numbers in 2026 summer
DeleteMuch better than establishing a national airline would be if Macedonian government purchased some shares in Wizz, and concluded some sort of strategic partnership agreement...Wizz Air already functions as sort of national carrier of Macedonia...Some medium term goal should be to do away with all the subsidies and operate only justified and profitable rotations.
DeleteTryina bit sweet but not really, right? Did you not know that only NEW roites are subsidies and only for a given period? Cant imagine that you dont know that. The rest is profitable and justified.
DeleteAnyone surprised at how low Lufthansa is with its capacity in exyu in December?
ReplyDeleteDon't know about other airports but in BEG they had a large drop since they reduce MUC from 21 to 14. I am sure Munich is quite seasonal to other destinations as well.
DeleteFRA seems to be a much stronger performer for them which makes sense. It has a much larger catchment area than MUC.
Surprising they are below easyjet
DeleteCould we get the LH breakdown by airports admin?
DeleteIsn't Ryanair the busiest carrier in ex-YU during summer? Just goes to show how seasonal the overall market is.
ReplyDeleteThat said, seems like BEG has stabilized the number of available seats. From what I can see fluctuations aren't as large.
They were this summer. Yes, they are very seasonal. Remember they have a seasonal base in Zadar too. But it will be interesting to see if Wizz overtakes them next summer.
DeleteCroatia market is seasonal for obvious reasons, Bosnia is seasonal too (Gulf).
DeleteeasyJet becoming the second largest at LJU is a very positive sign.
ReplyDeleteVery low growth for PRN. SKP is catching up fast.
ReplyDeleteI think PRN number for winter in general and for December don't make sense. When actual figures come out, PRN has double digit growth. It seems that a lot of charters are left-out. It would be nice to compare capacity vs actual figures. Slowing down has to come at one moment, but this seems to me so abrupt and nothing spectacular hasn't happened.
DeleteThe figures include charter flights. Pristina did not have double digit passenger growth in October. Capacity growth has slowed during the winter and so has the rate of passenger growth.
DeletePRN hasnt see any growth since October, and admin clarifies that. I think this is the GP maximum what they can do....
Deletelooks like like before the pandemic to me. in off season they are very close but then during holiday seasons PRN has its extreme peaks
Deletegood results for both
Overall, the region is doing surprisingly well despite all the challenges. Wizz Air clearly shaping the market in almost every city except Zagreb and Ljubljana.
ReplyDeleteNearly every airport is growing at double-digit rates. The region is becoming far more competitive than people think.
DeleteGP Aviation at number 6. Wow
ReplyDeleteGP already reaches the maximum what they are capable off...
DeleteAir Serbia keeping almost 50% of Belgrade’s capacity is impressive considering how aggressively Wizz is pushing. Shows that JU’s network strategy is paying off.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Fraport Slovenia does not support Lufthansa to the same extent as before and has opened up to other carriers. If this is true, which I hope it is, this is only positive for LJU.
ReplyDelete+1
Deletelmao they support every airline in the same way except you believe in conspiracies
DeleteOU strikes back!
ReplyDeleteMore seats offered than Ryan!! We are back baby!
It has barely any impact when the lf is 50%.
DeleteThey usually stagnate during winter. Good to see some movement.
Deleteexactly as 10:36 states!
DeleteOU will rise very soon and show all haters it is great company once was!
It’s not organic growth, it’s just larger planes swapping for smaller. Catastrophic scenario
DeleteSkopje at +36% is massive growth for a single month
ReplyDeletethe airport is way too dependent on a single airline. If they ever reduce operations, it would be catastrophic. And we saw a taste of that last year.
DeleteWizz Air deserves credit for investing heavily in Skopje. They’ve turned it into one of their strongest bases in the Balkans.
DeleteChill dude, you never gona catch PRN and SJJ maybe even surpasses in next 2 years..
DeleteWizz will invest more in SKP base they have huge plans for this base.
Delete10:59 are you joking us ? SJJ is going down with 100k in a single month,plus they had such a huge growth this year, and they will catch SKP, are you for real? They did not catch SKP when the airport stagnate, they will catch now when the growth is massive??😂good comedy
@10.59 choking hard on that number ?
DeleteHe obviously dont know what he is commenting, I mean it is not real to saying that SJJ will overpass SKP when that not happend when SKP stagnate with almost 2 years, now SKP hitting 300k + in December and SJJ barely 100k, it is same like I say SKP will overpass BEG....
DeleteAnd nobody mentioned those two airports until 10.59
DeleteJust a provocator looking for non sense comments thats 10:59
DeleteLegacy airlines are losing ground everywhere except Croatia Airlines in Zagreb and Air Serbia in Belgrade.
ReplyDeleteWell that is the way across Europe and connectivity has never been better or easier for us all.
DeleteIt’s amazing how Wizz Air is dictating trends in almost every capital except Zagreb. Without them, half of these airports would see flat or negative growth.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember that Croatia has 9 airports, many more than other countries in the region.
DeleteAlmost all airports in Croatia othet than Zagreb are dead in December.
Deletebut what would ZAG be without Ryanair? behind PRN and SKP
DeletePegasus has quietly become a major player in the region. Up to number 6.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they were not burdened by various bilateral restrictions they would be even bigger.,
DeleteTrue that
DeletePegasus provides amazing connections to all Europe hubs as well Middle east, plus they have really cheap fares and good service. I really hope they will expand its operations out of SKP
DeleteBelgrade adding almost 11% in December is huge for a winter month. JU and Wizz are basically running a two-airline show now.
ReplyDeleteWe need Easy, Transavia or Eurowings to make some cards shuffle.
DeleteYou really expect Transavia and Eurowings to make some cards shuffle?
Deleteyes sir. for example, any Spanish city or Canary Islands, in Germany Koln or Bremen or Munich, Gdansk or Poznan in Poland, etc.
DeleteMost will say, who would fly there.. its like saying who would fly to Spain 5 years ago, and look that market now. Its blooming, thank God.
I think the comment at 12:05 was that neither Transavia nor Eurowings would make a big impact to Belgrade's overall connectivity If i understand what "cards shuffling" means.
DeleteComparison of capacity increase for BEG and ZAG, already published before and today on this site:
ReplyDeleteNov: BEG +11.2%, ZAG 10.1%
Dec: BEG +10.9%, ZAG +8%
W6 stationed 5 A321 in SKP with addition to plus one more, if that happend and all routes are operated by this type aircraft than W6, than this massive growth will be even higher next year
ReplyDeleteCan we do for Tuzla?
ReplyDeletewhen it becomes a capital?
Delete20:43 arent you see the article is only for capital cities, or just commenting something, killing some time ?
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