Most capital city airports in the former Yugoslavia are expected to see passenger growth during August when compared to last year, based on available scheduled seat capacity levels. Ryanair will retain its position as the region’s largest carrier, ahead of Air Serbia and Wizz Air.
Belgrade Airport has the most available seats on scheduled flights in August, standing at 997.636. The figure represents a decrease of 0.6% on 2023. It does not include charter services which see a notable volume during the month. It is the second month this year the airport will have less available capacity on last year, following June’s 1.4% decrease, although it has managed to maintain passenger growth throughout. The drop comes as a result of Wizz Air, which has a 28% reduction in capacity during the month. Air Serbia, which will grow its capacity by 4.9%, will continue to maintain its position as the largest carrier, holding 57.7% of all available scheduled capacity at the airport. Zagreb follows as the second largest with 548.998 available seats on scheduled flights during the month. It represents an increase of 13.9% on last year. Croatia Airlines will retain its position as the largest carrier at the airport, with 32.8% of available capacity. It is followed by Ryanair with 29.7% of all available seats.
Skopje Airport, will also be impacted by Wizz Air’s frequency cuts. It boasts 334.636 seats in August, down 2.1%, despite a 10.6% increase in the number of operated flights. Wizz Air, which has wiped out 14.3% of its capacity, will hold a 49% share of available seats. Pristina Airport will have 330.152 available seats, however, it has numerous flights sold exclusively through tour operators which are considered as charters. Therefore, these are not included in the overall scheduled seat capacity. If only seats on scheduled flights are taken into account, the airport sees an increase of 12.4% in capacity on last year. easyJet has the largest volume of scheduled seats, holding a 16.9% share, ahead of Chair Airlines with 14.7%.
Sarajevo Airport has 313.896 scheduled seats on the market in August, a notable increase of 36% on 2023. Pegasus Airlines is the largest carrier with 10% of capacity, followed closely by Turkish Airlines with an 8.9% share. Podgorica Airport has 218.922 seats on scheduled flights in August. Wizz Air is the largest with 22.6% of total capacity, while national carrier Air Montenegro is the sixth-largest. Finally, Ljubljana Airport has 166.687 seats on scheduled services available this August, which is up 18.4% on last year. Lufthansa will be its largest carrier with a 17% capacity share, ahead of Turkish Airlines with 11.3% of scheduled capacity.
Largest carrier by scheduled seat capacity in former Yugoslavia, August 2024
I think this is the first time Wizz drops below 50% share in Skopje
ReplyDeleteYes because SKP has more flights by other carriers this year then ever before. Even with out the reductions of W6, their share wouldn't be the same as it was last summer.
DeleteBEG will have a good August. Just 0.6% reduction in capacity will probably results in passenger growth of around 4%.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that despite all the issues the Marathon accident caused, Air Serbia has grown capacity on last year every single month.
DeleteYou just read shortsighted "analiticar", Erserbia has a different type of airplane and has growth in all segments of fleet. Still to come biggest expansion in this year.
DeleteThe rest of European airports are growing much much faster than BEG. And we can not continue to blame Marathon and W6 for it.
DeleteIf you attract more airlines, both full service and LCC you are less dependent on unforseen events like Marathon and Pratt engines.
Anon 08:36 , Air Serbia has 58% share in BEG airport with just 26 airlines in summer season , what did you expect ? And next time do not complain about expensive tickets from them. It's because they have the monopoly in a lot destinations.
Delete@9.37 Air Serbia is growing so I don't see how they are affecting Belgrade's growth. But you had to bother reading the article to know that. Also where were you last year to point out the very slow to no capacity growth at Europe's airports when BEG wqs growing 25-30%? Or you expect them to grow 30% each year? As for fares, JU is very affordable on most.
DeleteYou need to compare what people are paying in other countries to see whether it is affordable or not. And yes you need to keep growing capacity year on year. Those other airlines which you refer to already had a lot of capacity. It is comparing apples and oranges. At the moment, all the airlines are just profit taking in BEG.
DeleteAnd Belgrade is growing. On an annual level capacity growth is 10%.
DeleteResponding to "analiticar" at 9:37
Delete"The rest of European airports are growing much much faster than BEG"
LOL where have you been last year when BEG growth beat most of European airports?
"And we can not continue to blame Marathon and W6 for it. "
LOL ignoring 28% drop by Wizz, second largest airline at BEG, discards your opinion as relevant.
"If you attract more airlines, both full service and LCC you are less dependent on unforseen events like Marathon and Pratt engines. "
LOL great advice for ZAG airport. Unlike BEG, they have only 1 out of three largest EU LCCs. Unforseen events with P&W engines might develop in the coming years for the new operator and new ACMI operators at ZAG still have to prove their long-term resilience to unforseen rabbits and other events.
^ What does ZAG have to do with any of this? Do you seriously can't help yourself but turn everything into a BEG vs. ZAG thing? Doesn't matter that Belgrade has almost twice as many passengers. This smacks of some really bizarre pathology. Almost an obsession or something.
DeleteExactly! You are describing analiticar's obsession word for word.
Delete^ And you must be talking to analitičar in your own head, because no one here mentioned ZAG other than you.
DeletePristina has double digit capacity growth for first time in a while and its results have been excellent throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteCrazy how much capacity Wizz has cut.
ReplyDelete50 of their aircraft are currently out of service so...
DeleteIt is actually not that surprising. Wizz does not have major LCC competition in the form of Ryanair in neither Belgrade or Skopje. So they can afford to cut more in BEG and SKP compared to some other markets, like for example Budapest where they have to keep growing to remain competitive. Unfortunately, some analyst does not understand this.
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DeleteExactly, W6 is at war with FR in TIA and SOF so it didn't cut any capacity there because it knows it will be difficult to regain it in the future.
DeleteThey did cut it in SOF. But for the rest I completely agree. Besides TIA, they are also in war with FR in FCO where W6 is also growing, same with MXP and OTP.
DeleteWhen will the decline in Skopje end?
ReplyDeleteProbably next summer.
DeleteSkopje is getting really screwed over by Wizz this year.
DeleteOhrid too.
DeleteWizz will grow again next year
DeleteEasyjet discontinuing flights in November won't help.
DeleteWell it what happens when 60% of you capacity depends on them.
DeleteI would love to see Ryanair start flights to Skopje.
DeleteAnon 9:33 forgot to add the eggs in one basket part
DeleteLets hope and pray that we wont see the comment about macedonian passports.
DeleteWizz Air extended their schedule with five planes from SKP until November 17th. After that the 5th jet will be gone.
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteConstantly in last place
DeleteFraport, best at consistently being last
DeleteWhat on Earth are you talking about? They brough Wizz, Luxair, AirBaltic, Norwegian, Iberia, Corendon in only one year. So they are trying.
DeleteThey brought absolutely no one.
DeleteWizz launched Skopje due to Macedonian subsidies. In fact, under Fraport's watch, Wizz Air has discontinued all its other routes from Ljubljana.
Luxair, Air Baltic, Norwegian and Iberia all launched flights because of Slovenian government subsidies, not Fraport and other than Air Baltic all are seasonal.
Yeah but Fraport attracted them. Remember that all of them are flying empty. A320 is way to big for SKP-LJU and analitičar said AirBaltic is doing badly in LJU. They even put extremely low prices on it.
DeleteNo, Fraport didn't attract them.
DeleteAh just conspiracy theories that Fraport isn't doing anything.
DeleteThey managed to convince government to invest taxpayers' money.
Delete@9.42 all are flying empty? A320 is too big for LJU-SKP? is this sarcasm?
Deletein May LJU-SKP had 4.509 pax
Yes it's sarcasm. He posts these annoying sarcastic comments regarding LJU in every topic.
DeleteAccording to zamaData AirBaltic is doing poorly on RIX-LJU. Where is sarcasm here?
DeletePerhaps your first mistake is thinking 'zamadata' which revolves around a guy counting flights on airport websites is reliable
Deleteyou dont need to rely on someones excel tabele regarding Slovenian data.
DeleteLJU-RIX for May: 1929pax If you knwo the equip. and nr of flights you can calculate what you need
to add: thats 107 pax per flight (18 flights if im not wrong). their A220 has 148 seats
DeleteSarajevo's growth has been amazing. Well done!
ReplyDeleteYes, happy for Sarajevo
DeleteIdemo Sarajevo!
DeleteSoon enough it will be competing with PRN and SKP, it has higher potential than those, just needs an airline base now.
DeleteYeah sure it has higher potential then SKP. Wait till W6 returns with growth and see if it will be competing with it.
DeleteFinally! Really happy for Sarajevo, congrats!
DeleteSarajevo including suberbes is the third largest city in former Yugoslavia with an catchment area of more than 2 million people (Sarajevo - Konjic - Travnik - Zenica - Doboj - Tuzla - Vlasenica - Gorazde - Foca) which is larger than North Macedonia or Slovenia. Hence, Sarajevo has for sure capability to be #3 in Former Yugoslavia. Hoewever, politics is not in right place. Should Ryanair open a base in SJJ, the airport will outperform Skopje and Pristina.
DeleteIt seems to be that Air Serbia's share in BEG has been increasing steadly.
ReplyDeleteIt is getting too big
DeleteWhy too big?
DeleteI don't think it's good for any airline to have close to 60% share at an airport. It means there is less and less competition.
DeleteLess competition means higher ticket prices which is a good thing for JU.
DeleteThis is usually the case in summer vs winter for Air Serbia.
DeleteI don’t see the problem with TK and Istanbul. They are around 80%
Deletemaybe a good thing for JU, but not for passengers..
DeleteZagreb doing very well. Nice work!
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteIt really is. Over the last 2 years they've even started to grapple with seasonality. Great to see that!
DeleteDoesn't seem Ryanair will reach a million seats in a single month. Maybe next year.
ReplyDeleteWow only 20,000 difference between Sarajevo and Skopje
ReplyDeleteIt's possible that SJJ will have more passengers on some months this winter.
DeleteYes, especially since Wizz is removing one aircraft from SKP this winter.
DeleteTrue, Wizz is adding Rome from Sarajevo this winter, and potentially Ryan as well few more routes.
DeleteRome will be added but AUH suspended. The number of flights Wizz will operate to SJJ this winter will be the same. AUH will go from five weekly to zero, LTN from two to four and FCO three, its the same.
Delete@09:22 & 09:36 There is no way that SJJ will have more pax than SKP during the winter months. Just look how poor SJJ network during the winter is, out of all flights to the Middle East only three weekly to Jeddah and four weekly to Dubai will remain to operate during the winter. There wont be any flights to Sharjah, Riyadh, Doha, Abu Dhabi or Kuwait. Plus, Turkish Airlines will reduce SJJ to 14 weekly, Pegasus to 11 weekly, no Aegean with flights from Athens only three weekly from SKP, no Ryanair from Thessaloniki, no daily flights from Warsaw but only three weekly, five weekly Zurich with Swiss, seven weekly to Frankfurt, 14 to Vienna, seven to Belgrade and 14 to Zagreb, no flights to Copenhagen, Oslo or Stockholm. I dont know how SJJ can have more pax than SKP during the winter months with this poor schedule but okay.
DeleteLast August BEG had over a million scheduled seats.
ReplyDeleteYou might have missed this part
Delete"The drop comes as a result of Wizz Air, which has a 28% reduction in capacity during the month."
Bravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteSeems that Turkish will no longer be Slovenia's busiest airline.
ReplyDeleteTK has big problem with the NEO engines.
DeleteI hope Wizz Air will return with big expansion from SKP and BEG once the problems with the engines are solved
ReplyDeleteI think they will. Not just SKP and BEG but across Europe.
DeleteHope so
DeleteTheir CCO already said they will.
DeleteNo doubt about it.
DeleteStrong August for most
ReplyDeleteNext year will be interesting to see when the airlines aren’t impacted by engine problems
ReplyDeleteNext year recession lol
DeleteHow much is approximately is the unscheduled capacity for PRN?
ReplyDeleteAround 200,000 in summer months most likely.
DeleteThat's a lot. Thanks
DeleteSarajevo 👏🇧🇦
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Ryanair. Took over the region.
ReplyDeleteTheir capacity is almost entirely concentrated around Zagreb and the Croatian coast
DeleteThe region he can only be talking about it Croatia. Ryanair does not operate a single flight to Macedonia or Slovenia, while they presence in Serbia has declined.
DeleteAnd Bosnia is not in the region?
Deleteabout is Croatia*
Deletewhile their*
@14:59 Yes of course Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of the region.
Air Montenegro sixth largest in Podgorica. Nuts.
ReplyDeleteAt least Montenegro has a national carrier…
DeleteSarajevo is doing a good job. Without the base of any company, and without a national company. They did a huge job for relatively little money
ReplyDeleteDont know if the results would have been the same if Wizz Air still had a base in TZL.
DeleteWhich line(s) did Sarajevo take from Tuzla?
DeleteWow SKP even with Wizz cuts still reserved 334k pax , thats absolutely good if we know in what situation the airport is ,good job!!! 👏👏
ReplyDeleteWow Sarajevo and Zagreb! :)
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