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Sarajevo Airport registered a third consecutive month of declining passenger figures on the back of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, which has resulted in fewer flights to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital. The airport welcomed 306.949 passengers in August, representing a decrease of 1.6% on 2025. At the same time, aircraft movements decreased 4.6% to 2.303. During the January - August period, Sarajevo Airport handled 1.551.872 travellers, a decrease of 0.01% compared to last year or 273 fewer customers.
Sarajevo Airport registered a third consecutive month of declining passenger figures on the back of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, which has resulted in fewer flights to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital. The airport welcomed 306.949 passengers in August, representing a decrease of 1.6% on 2025. At the same time, aircraft movements decreased 4.6% to 2.303. During the January - August period, Sarajevo Airport handled 1.551.872 travellers, a decrease of 0.01% compared to last year or 273 fewer customers.
Sarajevo’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, August 2026
This is bad!
ReplyDeleteIt is actually not bad at all considering 4/5 of all seat cuts came from three markets in the Gulf heavily affected by US/Israel-Iran war. But the winter/spring season with Ryanair pullout and LOT discontinuing its flights until the spring '27 will definitely be challenging. [S.K]
DeleteIt's actually very impressive the drop is only 0.01% YoY so far.
Delete"During the January - August period, Sarajevo Airport handled 1.551.872 travellers, a decrease of 0.01% compared to last year or 273 fewer customers."
Given the market share of those flights it means the organic growth and diversification elsewhere was enough to offset these changes and that the airport would've otherwise grown in passenger numbers by a decent amount.
Next year they will offer over 3M seats, possibly even 3.5M so we'll see how it works out with W6 back and if Ryan follows the summer season deal with 425k seats.
super great nema sta
DeleteAugust capacity was positive compared to last year ...
Next year who will offer 3.5 millions seats?? Who will offer that ?? It is question will Ryanair will come back and what they will launch it will be just seasonal routes, so they cannot sustain a low cost carrier or a base which is miserable
DeleteIf Ryanair comes back SJJ will certainly offer 3.5M seats, currently it's at 2.8M plus Ryanair adding extra 100k and Wizz Air adding however many but surely at least 200k, GCC cancellations not happening and other growth.
DeleteHow come the big growth in March?
ReplyDeleteSo LH Group Nr 1 with LX LH OS, before TK Group and Ryan
ReplyDeleteSo LH Group Nr 1 with LX LH OS, before TK Group and Ryan
ReplyDeleteWhere are OU and JU in the list?
ReplyDeleteThe fly prop aircraft. The overall capacity is small.
DeleteWake me up when they return the direct Sarajevo-Skopje route 😴
ReplyDeleteMeans you will never be waked up
Delete@20:23, best get driving..
DeleteThat's what happens when you allow Ryanair in!
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't for Ryanair SJJ would have even bigger dip in numbers.
DeleteConsidering the number of flights Sarajevo lost due to the Middle East wars, this is actually quite good. Winter will not be good since Ryan is also leaving next month.
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