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Sarajevo Airport is continuing its efforts to secure a new service to Tirana. Acting CEO, Dino Selimović, discussed the initiative with Albania’s new Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spiro Koci. “We discussed the establishment of a direct air service between Sarajevo and Tirana, an initiative on which our airport has been actively working for some time in cooperation with our colleagues at Tirana International Airport”, Mr Selimović said. He added, “The joint analyses carried out to date, contacts with airlines and assessments of the route’s market potential provide a solid foundation for advancing this initiative. A direct air link between Sarajevo and Tirana would create opportunities for stronger growth in tourism, business ties, investment and regional cooperation, while also bringing the people of our two friendly countries closer together”.
Sarajevo Airport is continuing its efforts to secure a new service to Tirana. Acting CEO, Dino Selimović, discussed the initiative with Albania’s new Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spiro Koci. “We discussed the establishment of a direct air service between Sarajevo and Tirana, an initiative on which our airport has been actively working for some time in cooperation with our colleagues at Tirana International Airport”, Mr Selimović said. He added, “The joint analyses carried out to date, contacts with airlines and assessments of the route’s market potential provide a solid foundation for advancing this initiative. A direct air link between Sarajevo and Tirana would create opportunities for stronger growth in tourism, business ties, investment and regional cooperation, while also bringing the people of our two friendly countries closer together”.
A 20minute flight?
ReplyDeleteBut 7h with car
DeleteOn a good day. I cannot see any airline actually being able to operate this however. Non starter.
DeleteYou need a turboprop for it to be viable. IF OU was pragmatic, they would ask for a ZAG-SJJ-TIA-SJJ-ZAG leg with their wet leased ATR
Deletelol
Delete@11:24 If OU wanted to loose even more money flying to Sarajevo it would do that yep.
Deleteit's too early
Deletegospode boze
ReplyDeleteIt would be profitable only with a turboprop, or how Anonymous 11:24 said, if OU would do it from ZAG-SJJ-TIA-SJJ-ZAG . The ZAG - TIA wouldn't fail , plus people would stop in Bosnia from Tirana ,so they could travel around
ReplyDeleteas if ZAG-SJJ alone is profitable .... pricaj mi pricu
Delete@11:38 It would not be profitable at all mate. People do not just 'fly up to Sarajevo' from Tirana for a holiday. Those that need to go drive, those whose companies pay for the flight send them via Belgrade or Vienna. Talk like this is just pure nonsense in real economic terms. Routes need real economic and social links to work, especially ultra-niche links such as that would be.
Deleteim sure its the same guy who wants a LJU route from there
Delete12:07 Paranoia is no joke
Deleteso its true
DeleteGiven Sarajevo's geographical location, its future regarding intra-EXYu flights is very limited. For BiH the importance is on improving regional and internal road links which remain a real stumbling block for the country. But regarding Tirana, non-starter in my opinion even in a decade or so.
DeleteThere were summer charters from 4O on E-Jets years ago. Do not know if they operated the last summer.
ReplyDeleteFailed miserably
DeleteTOP3 of least realistic routes ive seen here
ReplyDeletehahah, I agree. We need a place to be able to rank the unrealistic and top fantasy-land routes.
Deletethere is only one ExYu airport that has a year round travel demand to Tirana but they are probably too close for a flight
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DeleteThere is only one exyu airport with year-round flights because JU operate efficient connections. There is also point to point demand, which I cannot imagine exists for Sarajevo to Tirana in anything like the numbers required to make a route work. Just because city pairs are not connected does not mean that the should be.
Deletetalking about p2p if we exclude Pristina which is only 2-3 hours away by bus, Skopje is the only one that comes to my mind, they have regular multiple daily buses but its too close for a jet probably
DeleteNo airline would fly Skopje-Sarajevo and make a cent of profit from it. Just drive it guys.
Deletenobody is talking about Sarajevo in this thread
DeleteEveryone is, actually!
Delete"in this thread"
DeleteThis route would be so irrelevant and not needed. I think there's a connection in the summer Jeddah-Tirana-Sarajevo-Tirana-Jeddah
ReplyDeleteThere are no fifth freedom rights.
DeleteIt's Riyadh-Sarajevo-Tirana-Riyadh and just for end of summer season
DeleteIgnore the haters!
ReplyDeleteI already booked my trip from Sarajevo to Lagos with a stopover at Tirana with Air Albania...
It has a 3hour stop-over in Cluj though...
DeleteThat would be ideal, because for us coming from Sarajevo, it takes seven hours of a miserable drive via Šćepan Polje—the worst border crossing in the world—and that’s in the best-case scenario.
ReplyDeletefor us sixteen people
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