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Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport handled 817.731 passengers in May, its busiest on record, representing an increase of 8.8% year-on-year. The figure was complemented by a 3.7% increase in commercial aircraft movements. During the January - May period, the airport welcomed 3.306.084 travellers, up 8.4%, or an additional 256.721 passengers.
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport handled 817.731 passengers in May, its busiest on record, representing an increase of 8.8% year-on-year. The figure was complemented by a 3.7% increase in commercial aircraft movements. During the January - May period, the airport welcomed 3.306.084 travellers, up 8.4%, or an additional 256.721 passengers.
Belgrade’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, May 2026
Very good result
ReplyDeleteBelgrade added 66.140 passengers in May alone. Next-largest exyu airport added just a bit more for the first five months of this year combined. Helps explain some comments about Belgrade.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you think that?
DeleteCause its true
DeleteAnd that is without Lufthansa, Qatar and reduced Fly Dubai
ReplyDeleteAnd now they're coming back big
DeleteQR isn't though
DeleteHopefully over one millio in June, July and August. September should be close
ReplyDeleteJune won't cross the threshold for sure. It had about 870k last year, with 9-9% growth it will be around 940-950k. In 2027 it most likely will, given EXPO
DeleteThis is what happens when the new runway opened up
ReplyDeleteThe airport still only has one runway at any given time
DeleteBravo BEG 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
ReplyDeleteBEG has my full support.
ReplyDeleteSOF and SKG are overtaken, now it's time to focus on catching up with TIA, BUD, OTP...
Reaching Budapest levels will not be easy at all.
DeleteBudapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Tirana and Thessaloniki have very low levels of transit passengers. In pure point to point demand Belgrade is still is lower. But yeah these figures are both healthy and show the hub and spoke system works well for the airpot.
DeleteSo? A passenger is a passenger. No one is stopping then from attracting transfers like BUD had it once upon a time with Malev
DeleteNo, the point is overall demand to those cities as destinations is significantly stronger than Belgrade. There are only so many connections JU can offer before massive growth would need to occur in passengers whose origin and destination is Belgrade. For that reason its essentially impossible to match Budapest levels even in the long term.
DeleteO&D in BEG is growing every year.
DeleteOf course it is growing and surely it is not important if the passengers are P2P or transfer.
DeleteLet me remind that JU opened in last couple of years Alghero, Alicante, Bari, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Heraklion, Lisbon, Malaga, Mykonos, Nice, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Rhodes, Santorini, Valencia, Zadar .. as regular destinations and big majority of passengers for these destinations are P2P.
Whole world counts the number of passengers on the same way so does it BEG no matter if someone likes it or not.
True.
DeleteAnd let's not forget they will introduce Brac, Tenerife, Sevilla, Tromso...all P2P.
Totally! its wonderful. But Belgrade will not reach Budapest levels of traffic even by the 2040s, which was one of the airports on the initial post's list.
DeleteHere's to more connectivity and more choice and more competition from Belgrade. Wonderful.
BUD had 1.822.000 passengers in May (up 7%) and 7.654.000 in total between Jan-May. There's very low chance for BEG to ever reach that, and zero chance if Wizz will close shop.
DeleteNo, there is a good chance if Wizz closes shop in BUD.
DeleteNo chance even if Wizz disappears from BUD as 12.2 million non-Wizz passengers were recorded in 2025. Still far ahead of the total in BEG and obviously other carriers would jump on the possibility as well.
Delete@21:41 you realise Budapest is massively more wealthy and massively more visited than Belgrade? And that will remain even in 20 years. Not worth comparing tbh.
DeleteWith Wizz Air massively cutting in TSR, I see BEG profiting even more from it.
ReplyDeleteIs 9 million still within reach for BEG?
Wizzair has not made 'massive' cuts in TSR.
DeleteWhy are you lying and spreading disinformation Anon 08.41? What's your agenda?
DeleteWizz Air has cut the following routes from TSR:
TSR-NUE
TSR-BSL
TSR-HHN
TSR-PRG
TSR-LCA
TSR-NAP
Are you saying these are not massive cuts?
These are surely massive cuts.
DeleteIndeed. @10:17 I had no idea they had scaled back like this, and they've kept it relatively quiet. So yet its massive cuts. The comment was neither a deliberate lie nor attempt to spread falsehoods. Calm down. Seriously calm down.
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