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Pristina Airport handled 4.600.484 passengers in 2025, representing its busiest year on record. The figure represents an increase of 12.7% on 2024, or an additional 518.002 travellers. During the year, GP Aviation was Pristina’s largest carrier, while the Airbus A320 was the most common aircraft type. The city was most connected to Basel, followed by Zurich, Geneva and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen.
PRN really is the best performing airport in the region.
ReplyDeleteImpressive especially if you take into account how poor the country is.
It was not the fastest growing airport in ex-Yu this year.
Delete@10:46 Not if you compare it to 2024, because some airports had a drop in previous years and then recovering those figures seems as a huge growth but it really isn't. The most common year for comparison I think a lot are using pre-pandemic 2019. If that's the comparison then yes, PRN is by far the best performing airport in region.
DeleteEven if you compare to 2019 it hasn't grown the most but it has certainly had impressive growth and within the airports of its size it is the best performing.
DeleteWhich is the airport with biggest growth in EX-YU?
DeleteBEG. It had 2752987 passengers more than 2019. PRN 2226786
DeleteYou're talking nominal numbers? That's not how growth is measured.
DeleteIn 2025 BEG added 544.000 travellers, PRN 518.000
DeleteStill nominal numbers. 2025 BEG growth was 6.5% and PRN was 12.7%. Nevertheless impressive growth in general for the all region and miserable traffic if we compare with one country of 20m people in EU.
DeleteAll airports in Romania had about 27m passengers, same as all exyu capital airports combined. Croatia coastal airports had 9,3m.
DeleteWhat do you mean "how poor the country is"? All (non-eu) countries in the region are economically and socially quite similar. You make it sound as it's people are dying of hunger when, in reality, just last year it had one of the highest GDP growth points compared to all (non-eu) counties in the region.
DeleteBeautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
Delete@10:43
ReplyDelete"..how poor Kosovo is".. compared to what exactly? To the Balkans? 🫠
Great success!!
ReplyDeleteHowever one of the downsides is that almost 90% of the flights are to 4-5 destinations like Zurich, Basel, Geneva, Dusseldorf, Munich. Almost no other routes other than the above have proved successful out of PRN.
Departure board looks quite boring with Zurich, Zurich, Basel, Dortmund, Zurich, Basel..
Majority of passenger type in most airports of ExYu is visiting friends and relatives type. Kosova’s diaspora is just too concentrated in few places.
DeleteAlso, the visa liberalisation is still recent. Gradually, the offering will change but these will still be the busiest routes.