Belgrade Airport surpasses one million passengers in April
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has continued its recovery from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic by handling some 388.000 passengers in April, representing a decrease of 17% on the same month in 2019. The number of aircraft movements fell by the same margin. As a result, the airport has welcomed just over 1.130.800 travellers during the first four months of the year, down 25% on the record 2019, but almost three times more than last year. In 2021, the airport reached a million passengers only in July.
Over the coming days, the airport expects a surge in traffic as a result of the EuroLeague Final Four basketball tournament from May 19 until May 21. Air Serbia has increased flights and capacity to Athens, Barcelona and Istanbul. Aegean Airlines will operate a total of eleven flights from today until Sunday on its Belgrade service. In addition, Air Nostrum, Croatia Airlines, Iberojet and Orbest will operate Barcelona charters, with the latter two expected to deploy wide-body aircraft. Privilege Style will utilise its Boeing 757 from Madrid to the Serbian capital today, while Iberia plans to run two charters to Belgrade on May 19 and May 21.
Belgrade Airport’s General Manager, Francois Berisot, said late last month, “Our results are very promising. Recovery is on the way. We are now at a level much higher than last year, and we reached almost 70% of traffic in the first quarter on what we had before the crisis. Everything is happening at the right time. It was good to open the new facilities recently because we expect a very strong summer season, and we are sure that all the airlines and passengers will come back in the same volume and even more than we had in 2019”. He added, “We want to attract a lot more traffic and offer much more destinations for the benefit of the Serbian people”.
Based on its estimates and modelling formulated last year, the airport estimated it would welcome five million travellers through its doors in 2022 and will be operating at 2019 levels in 2023, when it expects to handle 6.1 million passengers. The airport estimated for figures to grow to 6.9 million in 2024, 7.3 million in 2025 and 7.7 million travellers by the end of 2026. The airport’s record year remains 2019 when it registered 6.158.897 passengers, of which 2.733.304 were carried by Air Serbia and 3.425.552 by foreign airlines.
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