Belgrade Airport targets 6.2 million passenger
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport is aiming to handle 6.2 million passengers this year, while Serbia as a whole should reach at least 6.6 million travellers, the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlović, said. Speaking to BBC News Serbian, Ms Mihajlović noted that Belgrade Airport should handle "at least 6.2 million travellers", while Kraljevo's Morava Airport, scheduled to open on June 28, will welcome "around 20.000 passengers this year and between 100.000 - 150.000 in 2020". The Minister noted that Niš Constantine the Great Airport will see approximately 380.000 to 400.000 travellers this year. In 2018, Belgrade processed 5.641.105 passengers, while Niš settled for 351.582.
Ms Mihajlović previously said that as part of its concession contract, Belgrade Airport's operator VINCI is obligated to meet set passenger targets each year. "We have projections on how many passengers will be handled, how many new flights we can expect etc", she noted. The President of VINCI Airports, Nicolas Notebaert, recently said, "We must now open new routes so we can secure sustainable growth in the coming years. The good thing about the concession is that my interest and the state's interest are the same. It is a special agreement whereby the more passengers I have, the greater the revenue I have, the better it is for the country's economy. What we have done at other locations was to double or triple passenger numbers. We are talking about 25 years. We will be here for a long time. We are already working on bringing new airlines to Belgrade".
Belgrade Airport has not reported its growth figures so far this year, with VINCI to release its first quarterly results on April 12 at 17.45 CEST. On the other hand, Niš Constantine the Great Airport has recorded its fifth consecutive month of declining passenger numbers in February. The Serbian government recently approved five million euros to subsidise the launch of ten new routes from Niš. City authorities must now identify the ten destinations which they deem are of public interest, after which an international tender will be launched to seek out potential operators. Kraljevo's Morava Airport is set to open in late June after a number of previous deadlines were missed. "From its opening in late June, until the end of this year, we expect several carriers to introduce flights", Ms Mihajlović said.
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