Former Yugoslavia’s 22 airports handle 8.6 million passengers in H1
Airports across the former Yugoslavia handled 8.571.957 passengers during the first half of the year, with one exceeding two million travellers and a further two eclipsing one million customers so far. Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport retained its position as the busiest, ranking withing the top eighty on the continent and was followed by Pristina and Zagreb. Ljubljana, Tivat and Mostar are witnessing the slowest recovery with Slovenia’s main gateway at 44.6% of pre-Covid traffic levels, Tivat at 44.9% and Mostar at just 15.4%. Ljubljana is still dealing with the fallout from Adria Airways’ bankruptcy, while Tivat has been hit hard by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and European geopolitics, losing tourists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Mostar no longer has any scheduled flights following the withdrawal of Eurowings. It only started seeing more notable charter operations in July.
H1 airport performance
During the month of June, a number of airports in the former Yugoslavia saw their monthly traffic figures close in on pre-Covid traffic levels. During the month, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Greece and Armenia were the only markets on the continent whose numbers have exceeded those prior to the global health emergency, while Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey were close to reaching parity. Apart from Ukraine, which has lost all traffic due to the ongoing war, and Belarus, which is sanctioned by most of Europe, Slovenia was the worst performing European market, followed by Finland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Belgrade and Split ranked within the continent’s top 100 airports during the month, at 78th and 92nd position respectively, with Dubrovnik, Zagreb and Pristina close by. Zadar overtook Sarajevo, Podgorica, and Ljubljana during June, fuelled by Ryanair’s exceptional growth from the city.
June airport performance
The Director General of Airports Council International Europe, Olivier Jankovec, said, “These numbers speak for themselves. If Covid-19 caused an unprecedented collapse in passenger traffic for Europe’s airports, the rebound we have experienced this spring is equally extraordinary. The fact that volumes across the continent still remained ‑28.3% below pre-pandemic levels for the first half of the year should not eclipse the sheer and unprecedented unleashing of pent-up demand that has occurred since March”. Passenger traffic in the European airport network jumped by 247% during the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2022, resulting in airports across the continent handling an additional 660 million passengers.
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