Charters. 2000 passengers is great?

Charters to and from where? Yes 2000 for Airport without any scheduled or charter flights.

It has sport charters. An airport with fully built infrastructure and 2000 passengers is not great.

Looks like Tirana neary had same passanger numbers as a all Croatian airports combined. Expensive pices have bitten a growth, and given Albania growth.

it helps when half of the routes are to Italy because of diaspora

* biggest decline, sorry

+1

Is this possible? In my opinion yes but we need more flights, interesting will be that if Wizz base new A321, why not two😁

Zero chance of that happening.
If it manages 9.5 million will be an amazing result.

BEG has my full support but I don't like it that JU is not growing

It had 4% more passengers than in 2024 and has announced 7 new routes for 2026 and a lot of frequency increases. Maybe that's the opposite of growth for you.

Just the other day it was reported that JU's capacity is up 6% in February. You are saying that is not growth... ok

@09:12
JU's second half of the year was stagnant. It needs a whole lot more added capacity this year for BEG to reach 10 million passengers.

Right. 7 new routes and big frequency growth is bad. Got it.

More routes and more planes expected soon, which means extra capacity. With huge W6 growth, easy 10 million

Give it a rest guys, there is no chance BEG will have an 11.2% growth this year.
Even half of that will be a great result.

Anon 09:20
Exactly.

For 10m it would need 12-13% increase in pax, that is very optimistic. Not to say that JU hasnt started growing a bit again, but not sure that JU and W6 can pull off extra 1.1 million this year.

During the first six months of the year, Belgrade airport will add close to 400.000 additional seats, resulting in growth of 9.4%. Second half might be even better, so 10 million is possible.

^
LOL, no.

BEG needs to grow by 12.2% to reach 10 million mark.
If it's adding 9.4% more capacity in H1, that means that H2 capacity needs to grow ~14-15%, to compensate lower-than-needed capacity growth in H1.

Not sure whether that's realistic.

To be honest, pax number grew more than the capacity in 2025. However, we are probably going to reach 9.6-9.7 million in 2026 and then maybe take a swing at 11 during EXPO in 2027

As for JU, just look at the table above and you will see 1.4% growth which is nothing. It's basically stagnation..

It grew with 4% more passengers. No matter which way you spin it.

anon 09:57

Exactly. Pathetic spin.

In 2026 JU adds 6 more destinations. It should be also considered as stagnation 😂

It adds 7 actually.

Oh, it means even bigger stagnation, doesn't it?

People are seriously expecting over 4 million foreign visitors to the EXPO. JU by that logic could have between 15-20 million pax in 2027...

@10:13 exactly. 4million foreign visitors...LOL of LOLs
by why this obsession with huge growth? Stable and strong performance is also a win for the aviation sector in Serbia.

More people have an obsession of claiming growth is no growth or that everything os a disaster. Especially when it comes to BEG and JU.

Double weekly seasonal flights to Mykonos with an E-jet by JU will surely push BEG to 10 million pax, just wait and see you haters!

Hehe, Mykonos is very beautiful but besides that destination we shall have in 2026 in BEG the following new routes

Alghero, Wizz .
Palermo , Wizz
Amman, Royal Jordanian
Santorini, Air Serbia
Riga, airBaltic
Baku, Air Serbia
Toronto, Air Serbia
Alicante, Air Serbia
Chania, Wizz
Pisa, Wizz
Sevilla, Air Serbia
Tenerife, Air Serbia
Tromso, Air Serbia

So sad for you dude.

Enlight me please: who cares whether it will be 9.5 or 10 million at BEG? Even 9.5 is considered as a big win when compared to the rest of the region...

Actually, it is huge comparing to ex yu region.

Soon Etihad is expected also, at least 5pw

Skopje too.

Only 120.000 behind Zagreb

And Split is after Pristina on the list.

SJJ is becoming quite unstoppable

PRN added almost as many passengers as BEG!

^ last year it added more than BEG and ZAG. But this year only more than ZAG. Not to mention that PRN is more comparable to ZAG and BEG than SJJ is to ZAG. But whatever makes you feel better.

What is driving the massive growth in PRN?

Diaspora

Did diaspora really grew by that much in a year?

It is growing. Kosovo has the fastest shrinking population in the world.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-fastest-shrinking-countries-by-population/

That is so sad.

Not just Diaspora but also Kosovars visiting other countries. Visa liberalisation was not long ago.

No, it's diaspora and you can see that from the lost of destinations served from PRN

Many ex yu airports have that issue mate.

And Mali Lošinj?

I am positively impressed by Split's growth in 2025. I was expecting more from DBV considering the new Ryanair base.

Gastarbeiter traffic is a huge driver for growth.

Gastarbeiter traffic for SPU and DBV is minimal.

I think he meant that SPU and DBV were overtaken because of gastarbeiter traffic at other airports.

09:47
+1

There are a lot of “prodaje se” signs next to houses south of Split. For quite a while. Are you sure there is no diaspora going through SPU? Just asking.

^ That is more of a "western Europeans will pay a lot for a home in Dalmatia so we better cash in" issue.

Noticed that too. Could it finally happen in 2026?

There is always Maribor so doubt it

Lol true

Beautiful photo.

+1 I find admin always puts really nice photos

And special Bravo to croatian "flag carrier" with market share of 13 %, and dropping

Croatian flag carrier is in plus of 13.8 %. But you can imagine what you want.

Capacity wise. Not passenger wise and definitely not with its load factorm

As you wish, dear.

10.52
Yeah, they are in plus. With 30 mil euro minus 🤣🤣🤣. Are you aware at all that I am talking apples and you talk pears? Or is your Party duty to constantly monitor my posts and within 2 minutes desperately try to advocate midget feeder despite you write BS that is totally not related to things I talk about?

So?

So the comment at 09:43 means to say that whilst its great for the region to see such connectivity levels, its small-fry for Europe.

It means we need more people, please make more babies! :)

Any meaningful regional comparison should include Tirana, Trieste, Budapest and Thessaloniki.

What was the performance of TIA and BUD last year?

Sofia as well.

And Gatwick is a single runway airport. So, if Belgrade operates well, single runway will never be an issue.

Exactly. Although the issue in Belgrade going forward should not be JU (if well managed) but the terminal building which is my eyes the only let down. JU good, terminal mediocre and poorly done.

a more important perspective is the missed opportunity of the YUG countries and the people that run now OU, JU, 4O. if they worked and cooperated like air france-KLM or like those under lufthansa could have 50% of that 39 million and if FB and Bulgaria was included and their 11.9 million air travellers. then the result would be a have a very large and effective airlines. and much greater increase of destinations and links.

Sounds rather like a Balkan Federation... 🫣

not balkan.... South Slavic... and if airline and government cooperation for air travel makes you think that then what does the Lufthansa group make you think of? ... especially now they have the italian national airline

Air France and KLM were major successful airlines before the merger, not after. It's completely out of scale meaningless comparison. Better compare with Air Baltic, but even then, they don't need to deal with 6.5 states, dozen of small airports, and they are doing not that better than Air Serbia.

Air France and KLM are from states with functional bilateral relations and deep economic cooperation. The Yugophere does not.

It's an island dude, that'w why UK's numbers are always so big compared to mainland Europe too.

Yes, very good result. Congratulations

Could it reach 15m in 2026?

Still in 2026 whole Croatia will be less than Tirana.

Because very few tourists drive to Albania. Croatia has many many more visitors per year.

Huge? You have low standards. Spain which has 10 times the population of Croatia has had 320 million passengers in 2025, that's 22 times the amount Croatia had...
Our whole region is still lagging, Croatia lags maybe the least out of all ex-yu, but is still lagging.

Croatia is a tiny country compared to Spain. And Spain has huge domestic traffic. The Canaries are hours away from mainland Spain. There is also Menorca, Mallorca, Ibiza. In Croatia people don't fly to islands.

No, they swim to get there.

@Anonymous10:01
LOL dude! I almost spill my coffee!

Of course, Croatia is beautiful, with sooo many islands. You can see it on the map. Greece and Croatia in the Mediterranean with so many islands.

You wish

You don't wish? If it had 39.3 million and added over 3 million in 2025 why would it not be over 40 million passengers in 2026? Would really like to hear your thoughts.

I suppose it does not help that ZAG, PUY and TRS are not that far from RJK.

LJU as well. But still, Rijeka has a potential.

11.05
Niš has Sofia, Skopje and Belgrade. Ohrid has Skopje and Tirana. Banja Luka has Zagreb, Sarajevo, Tuzla....All cities in our region have several airports close by. It's not an excuse, although it does not help, that one I agree. But it's not help that's needed, it's work. In my opinion.

I truly do not understand why this airport has no LCC flights.
Before FR arrived to ZAG, Maribor could have been perfect airport for LCC's especially as there was no LCC massive presence to neighbouring airports.
Apart from it, back in 2006-2007 Ryanair was actually flyiing from Maribor to London and that region has so much to offer.

It could easily attract people from Graz with some well placed destinations. I don't know what pricing they have but the management is crazy if they don't want to offer any discount considering the dire situation they are in. Maybe they just don't care.