Former Yugoslavia’s 24 airports handle 13.8 million passengers
The 24 commercial airports in the former Yugoslavia handled a combined total of 13.887.895 passengers during the January - July period, with several already well ahead of their pre-Covid performance including Pristina, Sarajevo, Zadar, Banja Luka and Portorož. Zadar Airport recorded its busiest month ever this July, with similar figures expected this month. It is the first in Croatia to surpass its pre-pandemic performance, with the surge in traffic primarily fuelled by Ryanair, which stationed a third aircraft in the city this summer and launched a number of new routes. Banja Luka Airport has already achieved its busiest year on record, surpassing every annual end-of-year result by the end of July.
Airport performance, January - July 2022
Portorož continues to maintain its position as Slovenia’s second busiest airport, however, unlike its two other counterparts in the country, it is achieving record results. During the first seven months of the year, it handled 19.557 travellers, despite lacking regular scheduled flights. The figure represents an increase of 16% on the same period in 2019. Airports that are closing in on their pre-pandemic performance include Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Skopje, Podgorica and Niš, with the latter three having already registered their busiest July on record. During the first seven months of the year, Maribor, which lacks scheduled commercial flights, had the least number of passengers in the former Yugoslavia.
Tivat and Pula have taken up the unflattering position as being among the fifteen slowest recovering airports in Europe. Both have been impacted by the ongoing war in Ukraine, with a loss of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian tourists. In 2019, a total of 631.561 passengers flew between Moscow and Tivat alone, with services from a number of other Russian cities, including Saint Petersburg, which accounted for 62.147 travellers. Furthermore, last summer, Ukraine International Airlines maintained twelve weekly flights to Tivat from four Ukrainian cities, while SkyUp Airlines operated twelve weekly services from three cities, and Windrose Airlines ran two weekly rotations from the Ukrainian capital.
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