Three EX-YU airports within Europe’s top 100
Three airports in the former Yugoslavia have placed among the top 100 busiest on the continent at the start of the year this January, according to Airports Council International Europe (ACI). With a total of 240.981 passengers, Belgrade Airport ranked 72nd ahead of the likes of Stuttgart, Thessaloniki and Glasgow, but just behind Tirana and Riga. Pristina Airport positioned itself as the 88th busiest with 183.130 travellers handled. It was ahead of Rome Ciampino and Vilnius but just behind Beauvais and Bordeaux. Pristina Airport registered its busiest start to the year on record. Zagreb Airport made it into the top 100 by placing 99th, handling 140.176 travellers. It positioned itself ahead of Pisa and Verona, but behind Chisinau and Minsk.
Elsewhere, Skopje Airport, as the fourth busiest in the former Yugoslavia in January, ranked just outside of the top 100 on 105th place. It was followed by Sarajevo, which positioned itself on 131st. Ljubljana, which welcomed 37.604 passengers through its doors, was Europe’s 146th busiest airport, placing between Stockholm’s secondary Bromma Airport and Rhodes in Greece, which is also operated by Germany’s Fraport. Overall, the markets of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina are now outperforming pre-pandemic passenger figures, while Croatia had the smallest decline on 2019 out of all other markets in the European Union during the month.
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| Passenger development on European markets, January 2022 vs January 2019 |
The Director General of ACI Europe, Olivier Jankovec, noted, “January saw the recovery going into reverse mode, due to the attempts of many European countries to contain Omicron through a combination of local measures and largely inefficient travel restrictions. The positive thing is that we are now out of these dynamics. Travel regimes are finally aligning, allowing fully vaccinated people to freely travel again both within and outside Europe, and local restrictions are also being eased across the continent. But just as prospects were finally brightening, the atrocious invasion of Ukraine by Russia is now casting the longest of shadows”. In January, Istanbul was the busiest airport on the continent, handling over three million passengers. It was followed by Paris, Madrid, London Heathrow and Moscow Sheremetyevo.
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