All capital city airport in the former Yugoslavia will see their capacity levels grow during February, which is considered to be the slowest month in the aviation calendar. Wizz Air remains the region’s largest carrier.
Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in February, standing at 703.932. The figure represents an increase of 10.4% on 2025. Air Serbia will continue to maintain its position as the largest carrier with 338.108 seats, up 6.7%. Wizz Air will add 44.400 seats, growing by 47.4%. Zagreb follows as the second largest with 383.629 available seats on scheduled flights during the month. It represents an increase of 8.2% on the previous year. Croatia Airlines, which will grow its seat count by 26.570 or 18.3%, will be its largest carrier with 44.8% of total capacity followed by Ryanair with 27.6%.
Pristina Airport will have 336.191 available seats, with capacity growth currently projected at 3.4%. GP Aviation has the largest volume, holding a 33.2% share. It is followed by easyJet with 17.1% of total capacity. Skopje Airport will boast 303.894 seats in February, up a notable 42.7% on the back of Wizz Air’s expansion. The low cost carrier will grow its seat count by 85.086 or 73.3% on the same month in 2025. It will hold the largest share at 66.2%. It is followed by Pegasus Airlines with a 9.3% share. Sarajevo will have 159.420 scheduled seats on the market in February, representing an increase of 13.9% on 2025. Ryanair, which is growing its capacity by 16.824 seats or 101.2% year-on-year, is the largest carrier with 21% of total capacity, followed by Pegasus Airlines with 15.8%.
Ljubljana has a total of 120.519 seats on scheduled services, up 17.6% on February 2025. Turkish Airlines will be the airport’s largest, holding 15.7% of all seats, followed by Swiss with a 12% share. Finally, Podgorica Airport has 109.162 seats on scheduled flights in February, up 3.7%. It ends two consecutive months of capacity decline compared to the previous year. Turkish Airlines will be the largest carrier - just - with 22.494 seats compared to Air Montenegro’s 22.272, while Air Serbia comes in third with 16.532.
Largest carriers by scheduled seat capacity in the former Yugoslavia, February 2026
Do we know how many seats Wizz will offer in total in BEG?
ReplyDeleteAbout 140k
DeleteThat's a lot for a relatively small airport such as BEG (less than 10 million passengers).
Delete140k seats in the slowest month of the year is very impressive.
DeleteYeah but I don't see Wizz Air adding more seats later on unless they add a new plane or if they start using more and more planes from other bases.
Delete@9:09 I guess any capacity increase below 50% is terrible for any airport in the long term I mean an airport can't survive if wizz air doesn't at least double capacity every year
DeleteThey are adding a new plane in BEG.
DeleteWhen? Fifth plane is not announced.
Deletesays who?
DeleteHe meant comparing to last winter when they had one less plane.
DeleteGood to see everyone growing.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see January numbers for ZAG since OU is the engine of growth.
ReplyDeleteUnusual to see OU with such capacity share in Zsgreb.
ReplyDeleteThat’s just a decoy
DeleteI don't think you understand the word decoy.
DeleteDo you? Decoy is something used to attract or distract, often by mimicking something real
DeleteI don't see how the word decoy has any relevance to ZAG and OU capacity growth in February.
DeleteI think that extra capacity is just to make someone think it will be used, but not actually will be
Deletedream on OU haters. OU is once again larger than Ryan in seat capacity!
DeleteLol FR was never ahead of OU in ZAG, they were always smaller.
Delete@11:26
DeleteIs this some fresh conspiracy?
Nothing to do with conspiracies. OU is known to have an abysmal LF so it's only natural to expect them to struggle with filling those extra seats on the A220s.
DeleteWhat does "decoy" has anything to do with that?
DeleteWizz Air adding 44k seats in BEG in one month is crazy. They clearly want to challenge Air Serbia more directly in 2026.
ReplyDeleteWell to be honest they are bringing back what they cut some time ago.
DeleteJU and W6 are challenging each other in 2026 so it should be fun to watch and follow.
Wizz is a whole different animal with aircraft than can finally fly AND getting new delivered from Airbus every month.
DeleteThe A321neo with 239 seats is an unbitable CASK beast but is not5 suited for every route. That's where JU can hold its own.
True but when it comes to BEG Wizz Air has a big advantage, it's the large catchment area. In the zone around it, there is no serious competitor: BUD, ZAG, SOF and to a lesser extent TSR.
DeleteAnon 09:15
DeleteYes, INI offers minimal to token competition and border crossings to and from EU/non EU countries take too much time.
On the other hand they are not allowed to fly to some of the biggest markets for BEG. Montenegro, Russia, Turkey, Israel and the Middle East, even TIA.
JU needs to focus there.
Love it how there is always a way to belittle growth at BEG. There is always sonething lol
DeleteWizz does not fly to Russia at all. Stop writing nonsense.
DeleteYes, new pink sheriff is in town! 😂
DeleteNobody belittled BEG.
DeleteWizz is not allowed to fly to Russia, one of the major markets from BEG war or not.
That pink sheriff has 240 aircraft to play around and more than that on order.
could we see Wizz applying for SRB AOC? for TLV, DMD or some other routes?
DeleteDME not DMD typpo
DeleteNope
DeleteIn 2026 Wizz Air will be a force to be reckoned with in BEG. They are becoming quite dominant.
DeleteWizz getting an Israeli AOC will allow them to serve BEG with TLV based aircraft.
DeleteThey're not getting an Israeli AOC.
DeleteHope SKP has prepared for all this quick growth. It will chaos if they haven't.
ReplyDeleteSKP is so efficient currently, it will be interesting to see if will deteriorate.
DeleteI've used SKP three times in the last month and a half (extended weekends and nye), everything was fine and efficient, the only area there might be future problems are security checks. They must expand it if they want to keep up with future growth.
DeleteThey already planning to expand the security check area by 2030 , they have plan to expand that part of the terminal with extra space and one large restaurant
DeleteGP Aviation 6th largest in the region!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about their financial performance. Not trolling, just wondering how much they make off these PRN flights.
DeleteIs it is known who actually owns GP? Say what you want, but they are serving the market well, they know their market, and are serving it well. And yes, their financial report would be interesting to see, but knowing this is Balkan...the official version will certainly be cooked....well done cooked.
DeleteIt is all dodgy.
DeleteFantastic performance by Franjo Tudman Airport.
ReplyDeleteThe massive growth of the last 3 years continues! 🥳
+1
DeleteYes, they are growing fast
DeleteGrowing fast but Belgrade added even more pax in 2025.
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteBravo indeed, continues growth without having a subsidized national carrier or subsidizing an LCC base.
DeleteMany airlines flying to LJU are subsidised.
DeleteMinimal subsidies unlike the ones in SKP for example.
Delete09:22 You obviously don't have a clue. I challenge you to quote the numbers.
Delete11:35 I challenge YOU to quote the numbers.
DeleteWizz keeps wizzing all over the region!!!
ReplyDeleteThe region absolutely adores Wizz Air so it's good news.
DeleteTrue dat.
DeleteDoes it really? Ljubljana, Zagreb and the Adriatic coast airports don't seem to adore Wizz.
Delete^ they are expanding across the Adriatic this year.
DeleteW6 has 270 more A321s on firm order. They are going to expand on the coast soon.
DeleteMost passengers on the Adriatic coast are Westerners going for holidays. They are not ex-YU folk.
DeleteSlovenes love FR so they fly with them from ZAG and Trieste. If they had flghts from LJU they would use them without any problems.
is it possible for Ljubljana to reach every month in 2026 more than 100k pax?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
DeleteIn January most likely not but other months, for sure.
DeleteImpressive!
DeleteSorry, thinking again, reaching 100k in Feb is also unlikely. The LF for all flights would need to be > 80 %, considering there is 120k scheduled seats. Thats probably not achievable. But all in all, LJU is entering a rapid faze of growth, especially in the summer!
Deletebut are there some charters also in JAN/FEB?
DeleteYeah you are right, we will have to wait and see. It's definitely gonna be close to 100k.
DeleteIts pretty interesting to me that Lufthansa is not first or second in capacity share for February in Ljubljana. Swiss has actually overtaken them.
ReplyDeleteBecause they offloaded some flighta to Dolomiti.
Delete*flights
DeleteGreat to see such big growth for LJU. I hope the extra added seats will translate into big passenger growth. Does anyone know how the new routes are doing? Load factors to MAN seem to be hovering around 60 - 70% in Januarny, but it looks like sales are starting to pick up from February onwards. In November, new BCN and LPA routes had a joint LF of around 77 %, with BCN having 87 % in Nov and Dec (judging by official statistics from Aena, which are a bit different than the ones from the Slovenian statistical office)
ReplyDeleteHow is the flight load for Lufthansa flights this month to SKP? I know they drastically reduced their flights for February but they are still sending A321 this month from time to time, did they stay with the reduced schedule for February or maybe they increased a bit?
ReplyDeleteDon't know about load factors but they kept the reduced schedule in Feb.
DeleteTheir subsidies are done but they still operate the route with minimal reducing January and February , I used them 28th December and the A319 was full
DeleteOn 28th December I would be more surprised if it wasn't full
DeleteHowever if they are not satisfied with the LF they wouldnt operate the route anymore ;)
DeleteWizz has 3 planes based in Belgrade in winter?
ReplyDelete4
DeleteI can not find which for, it seems like these days are onlu 3 flying
DeleteSKP had 3.2 million passengers in 2025. This year it could reach 3.5-3.6 million. Airport capicity is around 4.0-4.5 million passengers a year. So expansion will be necessary if growth continues
ReplyDeleteBy 2030 they will extend the terminal capacity, this is what they told couple weeks ago..
DeleteIt would be good to see numbers for other airports in Ex Yu.
ReplyDeleteNo. of pax in BEG should be between 530k and 550k, based on this capacity, which would be 8-10% growth compared to Feb-25.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope the latter one turns out to be the case :)
Sounds realistic. There is a national holiday in February and the dates align perfectly. Monday and Tuesday Feb 15 and 16 will be nonworking. So with weekend you can go on a 4-day holiday or by taking 3 days off you can get a 9 day holiday. I think there will be a lot of travel.
DeleteI’d love to see Air Serbia chip away at Wizz’s lead and become the busiest carrier in the region.
ReplyDeleteOver the last two years when Wizz was having engine issues it was.
DeleteW6's lead against JU in the region is only going to grow from now on.
DeleteTheir fleet issues have been largely resolved.
Air Serbia can't base aircraft at any ExYu airport outside of Serbia, unlike Wizzair.
DeleteNot even PRN?
Delete@18:08 no.
DeleteOf course it can, with government approval. About 20 years ago, there were idea JAT to base plane at BNX, but there were not enough demand at that time
DeleteIt was more than 20 years ago. JAT established Air Srpska for the pure reason to get its pilots keep their licenses by flying as Yugoslavia was under sanctions. And they did that successfully. As soon as Yugoslav sanctions were lifted they closed Air Srpska.
Delete"Of course it can, with government approval" I'm not sure which government in the region would look to let JU set up a based in the modern era.
DeleteWizz Air's on fire, Ryanair is terrified, Wizz Air's on fire! Nananananana
ReplyDeleteRyanair isnt scared of anything my friend.
Deletelol some people here...
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
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