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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

✈ 900.000 passengers for Sarajevo Airport


Sarajevo International Airport has welcomed its 900,000 passengers of the year today, representing a record number of passengers in one calendar year. Dina Ceric is recorded as 900.000th passenger, traveling on Qatar Airways flight to Doha. She was presented with gift voucher from Qatar Airways for any destination of her choice within Qatar Airways network. In last 12 months Sarajevo Airport has added additional 100.000 passengers (last year 800.000th passenger was recorded on December 05.), representing a growth of 14%. The trend of passenger growth is expected to continue in 2018. 
  






Source:Sarajevo International Airport

Monday, November 27, 2017

✈Flydubai to operate 3 daily flights to Sarajevo!


Flydubai has published its 2018 summer schedule. With beginning of summer timetable flights from Dubai International Airport to Sarajevo will go daily, during holy month of Ramadan when travel is minimal due to fasting flydubai will reduce its service to Sarajevo to two per week. After Eid holiday flights will go up to three daily. In total flydubai will offer a total of 124.236 seats on 714 flights between two cities during summer season.


Full flight schedule Dubai-Sarajevo
Flight
Departing DXB
Arriving SJJ
Days
Valid from-to
FZ 761
09:15
13:15
Daily
26.03-30.04.
FZ 8605
13:55
17:55
Daily
25.03-08.04
FZ 8605
03:10
07:10
Daily
15.06-15.09.
FZ 8697
13:55
17:55
Daily
16.06-15.09.
FZ 761
09:15
13:15
1-3-56-
02.05-12.05.
FZ 761
09:15
13:15
--3—6-
16.05-13.06
FZ 761
09:15
13:15
Daily
14.06-15.09
FZ 761
09:15
13:15
1-3-56-
17.09-27.10.

Full flight schedule Sarajevo-Dubai
Flight
Departing SJJ
Arriving DXB
Days
Valid from-to
FZ 762
14:15
21:50
Daily
26.03-30.04.
FZ 8606
18:55
02:30
Daily
25.03-08.04.
FZ 8606
08:10
15:45
Daily
15.06-15.09
FZ 8698
18:55
02:30
Daily
16.06-15.09.
FZ 762
14:15
21:50
1-3-56-
02.05-12.05.
FZ 762
14:15
21:50
--3—6-
16.05-13.06.
FZ 762
14:15
21:50
Daily
14.06-15.09
FZ 762
14:15
21:50
1-3-56-
17.09-27.10
                                        
Flights
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
Total
OW
38
12
52
93
93
53
16
357
RT
76
24
104
186
186
106
32
714

Seats offered by the month (OW-One way/RT-Round trip)
Seats
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
Total
OW
6.612
2.088
9.048
16.182
16.182
9.222
2.784
62.118
RT
13.224
4.176
18.096
32.364
32.364
18.444
5.568
124.236

Flydubai operates Dubai-Sarajevo flights using Boeing 737-800 aircraft offering 174 seats in business-economy class configuration.


Source: Flying Bosnian

Friday, November 24, 2017

✈Pegasus Airlines is increasing Istanbul-Sarajevo flights


Pegasus Airlines is increasing Istanbul (SAW) - Sarajevo flights from six weekly flights to daily from January 03 to February 14.2018. Frequency increase is coming after Atlas Global Airlines failed to secure enough passengers for year-round flights between Istanbul and Sarajevo and decided to stop winter flights as of today. Atlas Global will resume Istanbul (IST) -Sarajevo flights on March 27th, as summer seasonal. Turkish Airlines also increased its service from Istanbul Ataturk Airport to Sarajevo from last year 10 weekly flights to 11 weekly this winter season.

Pegasus Airlines Istanbul (SAW)- Sarajevo flight schedule






Source: Pegasus Airlines

Thursday, November 23, 2017

✈Flydubai additional flights to Sarajevo


Due to increased demand and very good bookings Flydubai will increase its flights from Dubai to Sarajevo for Christmas and New Year’s holidays by adding one more weekly flight from December 21 to January 4 for a total of five weekly frequencies. 

Additional flights will operate on Thursdays with following schedule

FZ8951


Dubai (DXB)-Sarajevo(SJJ)

13:00-16:20

Boeing 737-800

FZ8952


Sarajevo (SJJ)-Dubai (DXB)

17:20-01:55 (next day)

Boeing 737-800


Source: Flying Bosnian

✈Tender for Bihac Airport design


Public Enterprise Bihac Airport has announced a competition for the design of the "Bihac Airport" at the location of Bihac-Golubici. The complex of airport buildings will consist of: control tower, terminal, fire department, maintenance service, petrol station, garage, hangars and workshops.
The terminal building will consist of: basement, ground floor and first floor, departure area with one check in counter to accommodate 120 people. Commercial area of the airport will include a cafeteria with a kitchen, a cafe bar and the restrooms. On the first floor, there will be airport management offices, VIP lounge, crew room and another cafe bar.
 The airport will have a runway of 2.200 meters long, 45 meters wide with ICAO standard CAT II landing system and a minimum of 1.000-meter-long parallel taxiway. Bihac Airport will be built on an area of ​​200.000 square meters.

Tender is open to ordinary citizens and companies who have education in the field of architecture, urban development and fine arts. The deadline for the application is until November 30 at 2 pm, and the public opening of the envelopes will take place on December 18th.

Bihac Airport location within Bosnia and Herzegovina

The decision of the commission will be awarded the prizes: for the first place 3.000 BAM, for the second place 2.000 BAM and for the third place 1.000 BAM.
According to earlier studies, the construction of the airport will cost about 26 million BAM. The airport should meet the needs of establishing charter tourist flights and commercial low-cost airline flights.
Full tender documentations is available at City of Bihac website www.bihac.org or by following this link.
                                                  Bihac Airport location within Europe


Source: City of Bihac and Flying Bosnian