NEWS FLASH
Pristina Airport saw its busiest year of all time in 2024 by handling 4.082.481 passengers. The figure represents an increase of 19.2% on the previous year or an additional 657.598 travellers. It also marked the first time the airport handled over four million passengers in a single year. The airport is expected to continue to register passenger growth, becoming one of the fastest growing in the former Yugoslavia during the first quarter of 2025. During last year, Pristina Airport expended its terminal building with the addition of two single-story annexes and a total of four new bus gates. The new facilities located both on the northern a southern tip of the airport building, each stretch over an area of 634 square metres. Furthermore, operator Limak extended its twenty-year concession of Pristina Airport by twenty months.
What happened to the airline that tried to open a base in Pristina?
ReplyDeleteThis one? They have 2 aircraft, one was flying from Pristina for a few days, and is now in Italy, and the second is in AirTiketa livery but has never flown yet. Failed story imo
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/05/bulgarian-acmi-start-up-plans-pristina.html?m=1
There was one Albanian airline as well that tried doing the same and failed
DeleteYou probably mean Albawings, yeah they weren’t doing really good in Tirana with Ryanair and Wizzair fighting over the Airport. So they tried to fly out of Prishtina, but they went bankrupt before it
DeleteAlbawings is not bankrupt, they just screwed the airline in Malta, they have been flying for Aeroitalia for months.
DeleteJetSky operated throughout July and August to Basel, Dusseldorf and Munich, but has suspended flights. Airtiketa now works with GP. They just changed the carrier.
Deletewow over 650,000 pax added. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWow, looks like Pristina might overtake Zagreb next year
DeleteLittle does it matter at this point. Difference is only 200k give or take.
DeleteThe resemblance of PRN terminal to SAW is quite big. Even the build materials.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they are both built by the same company?
DeleteYes, I know. There are multiple airports built/owned by same companies but these two are way too much alike. The same architectural design, same materials. PRN is like a shrink of SAW.
DeleteNothing wrong with that . SAW is a very good airport. PRN has great potential, mainly bc if the huge Albanian diaspora, and that will continue. Also Albanians from Macedonia like to use PRN, for nationalistic reasons, unless SKP is much cheaper, which is not always, and has less flights.
Delete@Anon 12:14 I am from Kosovo and I disagree with you. SKP is quite cheaper (mainly due to large Wizzair base) than PRN. I've seen Macedonian citizens (both Albanian and Macedonians) using PRN, but way less than Kosovars using SKP.
DeleteWhat happened for the fly between Paris and Pristina, there is no possibility to book ticket
ReplyDeleteBravo Aeroporti i Prishtinës! ❤️
ReplyDelete+100
DeleteCustoms at the Kosovo airport in its annual report, writes that roughly 600,000 passengers with N. Macedonia passports have passed through Prn.
ReplyDeleteCan you share the link please?
DeleteCongratulations to Pristina 4,000,000 passengers in a year 2024! Good job keep moving forward
ReplyDeleteBravo GP Aviation haha
ReplyDeleteZAG handled its 4 millionth passenger on 01.12.24, PRN theirs on 27.12.24. Certainly interesting.
ReplyDeletePotential is there. Should the authorities do their job, even 5 mln is doable in 2025.
ReplyDeleteThe ticket prices need to do their job. As there are more passengers, load rate should decrease prices which in return should attract more passengers. Yes, the airport logistics should be able to process that, but from what I've seen, there are no bottlenecks at security gates nor passport control. Check-in can be chaotic at time, but with installing of check-in machines and introduction of online check-in (announced by PRN) those huge lines shouldn't be a problem. Gates on the other hand, I don't know what is their maximum capacity, but looking at TIA (similar size), I think handling up to 7-8m passengers shouldn't be a problem, as at peak season PRN handles around 200 flights a day and of-peak there are 70-80 flights per day.
Delete*load rate should increase
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