Three EX-YU airports among Europe’s top 100 busiest
Airports across the former Yugoslavia are continuing to claw back their passenger numbers at an uneven pace with the ten busiest handling 9.901.052 travellers during the first three quarters of the year. Among them, Belgrade, Pristina and Split ranked within Europe’s top 100 busiest airports, with the Serbian capital outperforming its traditionally busier counterparts in Stuttgart, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Helsinki and Venice. Pristina was ahead of Malta, Rome Ciampino and Riga, while Split outperformed Keflavik (Reykjavik) and Luxembourg. During the first three quarters, Skopje overtook Zagreb, while Ljubljana fell further behind, now the least busiest of the former Yugoslav capital city airports.
Q1 - Q3 performance
The Kosovo travel market recorded the fastest pace of recovery in Europe during the January - September period, and was just 15% behind its pre-pandemic traffic record. On the other the Slovenian market is one of the most affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and was in the bottom four in terms of recovery, ahead of only Finland, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Overall, Ljubljana Airport ranked as Europe’s 166th busiest airport among 300 airports counted by Airport Council International Europe (ACI). Elsewhere on the continent, Istanbul’s main airport remained the busiest, albeit with a 51% decline on 2019 passenger levels. It was followed by Moscow Sheremetyevo, Moscow Domodedovo and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen.
ACI Europe sees passenger traffic at Europe’s airports improving from an estimated -60% this year to -32% in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic 2019 volumes. A full recovery is expected to be achieved only in 2025 (+1%). ACI’s Director General, Olivier Jankovec, said, “Fully restoring unconstrained global travel remains a long way off and looks set to be an uneven and volatile process - conditioned by further progress on vaccination and the evolution of the epidemiological situation. The level of pent-up demand is staggering, fuelled by the savings accumulated by consumers through this pandemic. But there are also significant supply pressures that will slow down the pace of the recovery”. He added, “These include structurally downsized airlines with significant reductions in their aircraft fleet and workforce, rising fuel costs and inflationary pressures, the lasting impact of airport slot waivers and the fact that capacity disciplined airlines will be exercising pricing power”.
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