The airports in Dubrovnik, Sarajevo and Zagreb will be the fastest growing in the former Yugoslavia during the third quarter (July - October). The trio will add the most scheduled capacity on the same period last year. Dubrovnik Airport will lead the way, with an additional 171.203 seats. The strong growth comes on the back of the opening of Ryanair’s base in the city this summer, with the airport to boast a total of 891.385 seats during the three-month period. Ryanair alone will account for 252.688 seats or some 28% of total capacity, whereas last year its share stood at just 4.6%. The majority of other airlines operating into Dubrovnik will also grow their capacity during the third quarter, with some of the biggest increases coming from Volotea, easyJet and Iberia.
Sarajevo Airport is set to continue posting record passenger results with the airport adding 125.359 seats during Q3 2024 for total scheduled capacity of 438.761. The growth is being fuelled by the introduction of new flights by numerous airlines, led by Ryanair with the addition of 62.844 seats, followed by Pegasus Airlines, Air Arabia, and Jazeera Airways. Over in Zagreb, the airport is adding an additional 119.450 seats during the third quarter, with Ryanair alone increasing its capacity by 96.698 seats and being one of the main catalysts for growth. However, a number of other airlines have also increased operations, including Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Iberia, while South Korea’s T’Way Air will contribute as well, adding 13.533 seats on the market during the quarter.
Scheduled capacity difference at airports in the former Yugoslavia, Q3 2024 vs Q3 2023
On the other hand, not all airports will be growing when compared to the third quarter of last year. Tuzla Airport will be hardest hit, loosing 72.545 seats, or around 78% of its total capacity. It comes as a result of the closure of Wizz Air’s base in the city last September. It will be followed by Niš, which has been impacted by Wizz Air’s capacity cuts over engine troubles, losing 23.326 seats on Q3 2023. Similarly, Ohrid will have 15.516 fewer seats and Banja Luka 15.131 for the same reason. Overall, the destination which which will see the most capacity added out of the former Yugoslavia during the third quarter is Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, followed by London Stansted and Munich, while those that will loose the most seats are Dortmund, Malmo, and Stockholm Skavsta. Airlines modify capacity on a daily basis and changes remain likely.
Where did Kraljevo capacity increase? Did Air Serbia add frequencies or upsized the aircraft
ReplyDeleteThe dates likely fell within Q3 this year that there were 2 return flights more.
DeleteBelgrade to add 7.000 seats in 90 days... Thats about 80 people a day 🫣🫣🫣🫣 what a wasted time for BEG
ReplyDeleteThe Marathon accident had major consequences.
DeleteKeep in mind that last year Belgrade Airport was one of the fastest growing airports in Europe and that when you compare Belgrade’s results this year with 2019 it is way ahead, whle Dubrovnik is barely a few percent up on 2019. Also keep in mind that Belgrade’s second largest airline was forced to decimate its network due to problems with engines.
DeleteBEG is very dependent on JU and W6. It only has 19 other airlines flying to it.
DeleteSo if these two have issues the airport suffers a lot.
Just my2cents
every year, no matter what scenario I see people joyful and hopeful how there will somehow be some disaster at BEG and yet every year is a record breaking one with new routes, new long haul destinations and new airlines.
Delete@9:08 Belgrade Airport actually has another 25 airlines operating, 24 if you exclude British Airways. So your 2cents are kind of a lie.
DeleteWho's joyful?
DeleteWhy is it forbidden to talk about facts if they are NOT absolutely fantastic about JU or BEG?
Why can't we have normal, fact based discussion without somebody having a meltdown if we do not cheerlead JU all the time???
And what fact is that? That the airport is on course for another record breaking year?
Delete@09:10
DeleteThe airport has only 19 airlines other than JU and W6 flying year round.
Next time you can even pick the geographical location of the airlines and it will reduce further. 19 airlines is fine for the time being along with a national airline with 80 destinations and low cost airline with mix of diaspora, leisure and main European airports.
DeleteThe fact is that growth in capacity has been bad in Belgrade despite all the talk of a “record” year. Please Vinci bring us Ryanair and other legacy carriers like TAP, Iberia, ITA, SAS, Finnair, Aer Lingus…
DeleteWhy did you put record in inverted commas? Are you suggesting the airport's passenger figures are false because it does not fit your hopes? The airport does have a record year. Look at the numbers yourself. And the fact that it has record passenger numbers with flat capacity growth means planes are full which means demand is high. But you have to think a bit to understand that.
DeleteYes and prices are high too and it means that the airport and JU cannot grow because as you say the planes are full. The reality is this capacity crunch will come back to bite both BEG and JU for 2024 as the airline and airport cannot realise its full potential.
DeleteSo much talk about BEG in an article that's got ć nothing to do about it.
DeleteYes, BEG must be happy to have just beaten OSI and KVO in capacity growth. JU and therefore BEG really should have been at the top of the list if it had managed its fleet growth plans correctly. But let's blame Marathon for that and nothing is ever our fault.
Delete^ of course Wizz Air reducing capacity 25% is unimportant probably.
DeleteBut Wizz is a Hungarian airline and of course its going to focus on growing its market over ours.
DeleteJU has grown beyond all expectations last two years (over 40 added routes!) and actually has 15% growth this year too. What do you want? 30% growth year on year until the end of time? Calm down, take a breath. It will be back to 20% growth next year and you will have to find something else to complain about.
DeleteBeing beaten by nearly every other ex Yu capital city except SKP is a failure. You cannot spin it any other way.
DeleteBEG is the most successful airport in the YUG financially and JU is the most financially successful non-foreign airline. Actually the only financially successful airline.
DeleteLiterally growing 30+% every year is not sustainable or sure it can grow. If the airport gave Ryanair huge concessions but then then the sirport would barely make a profit and the flag carrier would start losing millions so I really do hope their isn't anyone so foolish to try make the argument losing money for the airport and the flag carrier is more important than having passenger numbers. Is there?
Let's not start making false comparisons using hugely flawed logic.
It's great airports in Croatia are growing and especially for Bosna since its so poorly connected. But BEG and YU have a completely different operation so you can't compare them.
The operators of BEG need to encourage more operators as JU is not longer a reliable partner for growth with its extensive reliance on ACMO operators. No one is saying give others subventions or subsidies but just make them easy to start operations because this lack of growth is hurting the Serbian economy and Serbian consumers through high airfares and lack of seats to key business destinations.
DeleteEvery new airline has an incentive to start flights to BEG. I won't even go into the rest of your drama queen comment considering JU added 40 new routes in the past 2 years and will soon launch its 4th long baul route and a number of new destinations in winter
DeleteAnd those 40 new routes added just 7,257 passengers. That is 181.4 passengers per route. That is a strategic failure on a grand scale. What it means is that they took capacity away from existing routes and just reallocated it.
Delete^ you are talking absolute nonsense.
DeleteSo where did the passenger numbers for these 40 new routes go? Explain it to me please because you have no idea on how to run an airline.
DeleteThey added 40 new routes over 2022 and 2023. Not in 2024. Check Air Serbia's passenger numbers to see how many passengers they added. You really are talking absolute nonsense @Anonymous 13.00. Less hatred and more rational thinking would do you a world of good.
DeleteHe does not understand that the table displays capacity not passenger numebrs.
DeleteAnon 09:28 "Please Vinci bring us Ryanair and other legacy carriers like TAP, Iberia, ITA, SAS, Finnair, Aer Lingus…"
DeleteThere is one and only one portal in the whole world repeating this nonsense over and over again then dumping it on this site. There is no doubt who is behind it.
Ryan case has been clarified dozens of times. Every single reader visiting this site for at least a couple of months understands it. Poster who repeatedly asks for Ryan is not some who is seeking knowledge on reasons Ryan is not serving BEG. Obviously his only goal it to throw shade at BEG and affect Air Serbia in any negative way. That points to same person posting this again and again.
Well things are more simple : why foreign airlines ( transaatlantic or LCC or other legacies ) do not come in BEG ?? Simple : BEG is not a tourist mekka nor a business or a religion destination ! And that is more than enough .
DeleteWhy not honestly answer the question about motivation for constant spamming with Ryan?
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteWell it is growth so that's something.
DeleteWow, Pula +51k. Did not expect that. Bravo!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom where is the increase coming from?
DeleteRyanair grew frequencies on almost all the routes.
DeleteAnonymous 9:03, bravo to Ryanair, definitely not to the management.
DeleteZagreb airport is on fire this year! It breaks one record after the other.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see what will happen next year!
All depends on what Ryanair does.
DeleteI think next year it will stop because the privately-run Zagreb Airport does not want to have to pay money to invest into terminal expansion so they will not allow the airport to surpass 5 million passengers.
DeleteAnother lie without any facts.
Delete0918, OU still is and will continue to be no. 1 in Zagreb.
DeletePrivately run airports such as ZAG or BEG are the most successful ones in ex yu, because they understand the value of investments - investments already calculated into their initial concession agreements.
DeleteState companies should be restricted to only the most important utilities and projects of the strategic importance for national interest.
Everything else is best left to free market and competition.
Thank god LJU is among them, as in my opinion it has the best management in region.
DeleteLJU has the cartel management
DeleteOh how dare you again with conspiracy theories!
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteBelgrade already increased the gap over the second-best airport in the region by over 400k passengers in the first half of the year. By the end of Q3 gap may shrink to 300k or so but it will still be ahead. With Wizz increases in Q4 gap will certainly be positive for the whole 2024. This means Belgrade will grow more in 2024 than other airports.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are so happy about it!
DeleteI'm happy that you are glad that he is happy!
DeleteWizz Air increases are in the last month of Q3 and the first one of Q4, after that operations will be reduced again.
DeleteSep and Oct are more important than Nov and Dec. Air Serbia will also have two more Embraers and two more A330s in operation. Belgrade will increase the gap once again.
DeleteMore green than red so that is good.
ReplyDeleteBasically top 3 airports all seeing big growth due to Ryanair.
ReplyDeleteAnd the bottom 4 all seeing decline due to Wizz Air.
DeleteTrue that
DeleteNo other airline has the ability to cause such massive capacity increases. Ryanair based two MAXs in DBV without any problem.
DeleteWithout a problem after they got incentives. Same as in Sarajevo and a specially crafted incentive program for them in Zagreb. Don't get me wrong, I am for it and I think all three made the right decision. All three airports had very slow growth after covid and needed to find an airline that could deliver quick growth. Ryanair was the answer.
DeleteWhats the point of talking about incentives? Almost every growth in ex yu is going by incentives. Even AirSerbia or Croatia when open new routes, use massive tax money to expand. There is no point to mention that.
DeleteCome on Rijeka. Wake up!
ReplyDeleteIt is a mismanaged airport that is the main problem.
DeleteBecause it is run by socialists from SDP.
DeletePerhaps management enterprise running INI and KVO should wake up. They put all focus in opening the new terminal in INI yet none in attracting any new airlines.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteCroatia Airlines canceling Brac-Munich is the reason it is down on last year.
ReplyDeleteImpressive from Dubrovnik but again if you compare to 2019 it is not a big increase and back then they didn't have to pay Ryanair to open new routes.
ReplyDeleteSo to me the real winner here is Split.
So you can choose which airline you count and which not. I guess Ryanair passenges are not actually passengers because you decided so?
DeleteI'm just saying DBV paid to get Ryanair and its results have barely improved on 2019. Of course they are great compared to 2023 because they had terrible results last year.
DeleteSplit didn't pay anyone and it is doing great.
No, split is not paying to Ou, that not true...haha
DeleteJust a reminder
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2022/11/split-airport-concludes-croatia.html
Anon @10:59, exactly. SPU found a legal way to give money off to OU. That advertising is worthless, no added value nor does it generate new passengers, just to justify paying OU this large sum. That’s how OU functions. Sales and marketing has some of the most incompetent chicks I’ve ever encountered. Arrogant, yet clueless.
DeleteFantastic news for Sarajevo and well deserved.
ReplyDeleteImpressive growth for Sarajevo! :O
ReplyDeleteYes, finally the airport and city living up to its potential.
DeleteGreat!
ReplyDeleteLjubljana is consistently a massive disappointment. With Ryanair's expansion in Zagreb they are really doomed.
ReplyDeleteWhy when they have growth compared to last year?
DeleteHow dare you say bad things about LJU. Again with the conspiracy theories!
DeleteLJU is still so far away from 2019 :/
DeleteYes, it is still the second slowest recovering market in Europe on the pre-pandemic 2019. Only Belarus behind.
DeleteCrazy and sad
DeleteGrowth is from Lufthansa, SWISS adding frequencies as well as the new Riga and Copenhagen flights
DeleteUltimately, still far from satisfactory, but that's what happens with Fraport as your manager and Golob as your PM
Congratulations DBV, SJJ, ZAG
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see for Q4.
ReplyDeleteNice, good job
ReplyDeleteGood. Numbers in the region are ahead of global trends.
ReplyDeleteVery nice growth in Croatia!
ReplyDeleteI'm very happy to see Tivat back to growth.
ReplyDeleteTuzla :(
ReplyDeleteTuzla won't be seeing recovery from Wizz leaving anytime soon.
DeleteTuzla is a huge market, much bigger than LJU, so airlines will soon rush in to launch flights.
DeleteMacedonia from record growth in q1 to decline in summer...
ReplyDeleteThey cannot grow every year
DeleteIts like 1.7K less seats per month which is nothing.
DeleteVery interesting info
ReplyDeleteThese numbers put things into perspective. Often we get completely different perception if reading just the comments.
DeleteGood to see the numbers
DeleteI think Serbian market will see very big growth in 2025. I expect Air Serbia to return to wide scale growth (they have already hinted at that), Wizz will come back and I actually expect Nis to see some growth too. They didn't build the new terminal for it to be empty.
ReplyDeleteSerbia decreasing compared to previous year does not look good :(
ReplyDeleteFor the whole year 2024 Serbia, Belgrade Airport and Air Serbia will all set new record highs.
DeleteAnd yesterday told us one avio expert here, that split as a destination grows but DBV doesn’t
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering what Wizz will do in SKP and BEG this winter. Will the cuts continue or will they slowly return to growth.
ReplyDeleteThey will start returning to growth in BEG at least
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/07/wizz-air-schedules-network-wide-growth.html
It actually isnt growth.
DeleteJust getting back to frequencies they already had.
And capacity is down because they replaced A321 with A320.
Belgrade needs another lcc alternative to Wizz Air.
It actually is growth on the what they originally planned and on some routes they have more frequencies then they had last year.
DeleteBelgrade has Easyjet and Wizzair, two out of three largest LCCs. Second busiest airport in Ex Yu region has only one LCC. Clearly that one needs more LCCs, not Belgrade.
DeleteYeah easyJet is doing very good job in BEG with their one route to Geneva.
DeleteCertainly 100% better than 0 at ZAG
DeleteCongrats to the top 3 airports and everyone in the green!
ReplyDeleteShoutout to Mostar for finally waking up. AirSerbia is sending A319 till the end of August.... Demand must be hight
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