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Sarajevo Airport handled 121.762 passengers in January, representing an increase of 4.7% year-on-year, or an additional 5.479 travellers. The figure was achieved despite significant operational challenges resulting in flight cancellations and diversions as a result of winter weather. This caused the number of aircraft movements to decrease by 1.7% to 1.155. The airport is on course for a fortieth consecutive month of passenger growth in February, with capacity levels projected to grow 5.2%.
Sarajevo’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, January 2026
Just 5k passengers growth is not a big deal , traditioanlly winter months in SJJ are slow and this is max what they can reach 100 to 130k in a single month. Btw weather distruptions is all over the Ex-yu region so that cannot be excuse for this results...
ReplyDeleteThey're still better than anytime before which is nice. Airport and the government should indeed work on attracting more carriers.
DeleteAnon 15.10 You’ve probably never flown from this airport in winter. It is one of the most challenging airports to land at due to frequent fog, which is why many airlines, such as Ryanair, reroute their flights to other airports in the region. As shown, Ryanair has the highest seat capacity in January. On several occasions, the majority of flights were cancelled during the day. This typically occurs in December and January, when demand is particularly high
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DeleteDamn, JU not even in the top 10 in SJJ 😐 that's borderline embarrassing for the company trying to be the go to airline for the region
ReplyDeleteDaily flights on an ATR72 to a small and low yielding narket works for them.
DeleteThis is capacity not passenger numbers.
DeleteThey should introduce additional flights in the morning to catch the first wave and make use of their Aegean, Spanish and Caucasus routes that travelers from SJJ can't connect to.
DeleteSarajevo passengers have lots of options via Turkey or Germany and Austria to those countries. But yes a second daily flight would be good
Delete@17.40 - ASL had around 2700 seats on BEG-SJJ-BEG route in January, 7 days A319, 3 days E190 and the rest AT76. It was actually surprising that ASL utilized 1/3 of its flights using jet-airliners. Even with a double rotation they would not be in the top 10 airlines flying fr/to SJJ.
DeleteIt's just the fact the cities are not close politically, economically, culturally anymore so P2P traffic demand is not great and with all other flights BEG has been losing importance as a transfer hub for SJJ passengers. On the other side, it is very positive and satisfying that a daily flights have been operate and that ASL is still the legacy carrier with longest operational history at SJJ. [S.K.]
P2P demand between Belgrade and Sarajevo is really high and there are many business connections, what are you on about? The LF is also much better than OU, almost always 80+ percent and even overbooked in summer season due to the connections to summer destinations. That's why JU established a night flight for a short while 2 years ago. Now that SJJ is open 24/7 again maybe they do it again?
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