The airline’s first 737-400 – “Istanbul” – comes from Turkish Airlines which bought a 49% share of B&H Airlines last year. |
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B&H Airlines, the national airline of Bosnia & Herzegovina, recently took delivery of its first 737-400. Since the end of 2008 Turkish Airlines has owned a 49% share of the airline and the new addition to the B&H Airlines fleet has come from them. The rest of the fleet consists of two ATR 72-200s. With the arrival of the 737 several new “longer-haul” destinations will be launched from Sarajevo in the near future.
Destination | Start date | Days of operation |
Copenhagen | 11 May 09 | Monday, Thursday |
Gothenburg | 13 May 09 | Wednesday, Saturday |
Stockholm Arlanda | 16 May 09 | Saturday |
Vienna | 18 May 09 | Daily (except Saturday, Sunday) |
Berlin Tegel | 19 May 09 | Tuesday, Saturday |
Dűsseldorf | 19 May 09 | Tuesday, Saturday |
Prague | 25 May 09 | Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday |
Source: Airline website booking tool |
The three Scandinavian routes and Dűsseldorf will use the new 737 while the ATRs will be used on the remaining services.
Apart from routes from its base at Sarajevo, B&H Airlines also operates scheduled flights between Banja Luka and Zurich, and Mostar and Istanbul.
Sarajevo now handles over half a million passengers
Last year Sarajevo Airport handled just over half a million passengers a small increase on 2005. B&H Airlines carried around 70,000 passengers and faced competition from a variety of carriers including Adria Airways (double-daily flights to Ljubljana), Austrian (double-daily flights to Vienna), Croatia Airlines (double-daily flights to Zagreb), JAT (daily flights to Belgrade), Lufthansa (double-daily flights to Munich), Malév (daily flights to Budapest) and Turkish Airlines (daily flights to Istanbul).
In addition, two LCCs (Germanwings and Norwegian) offer low-frequency connections to Cologne/Bonn, Oslo Rygge, Stockholm Arlanda and Stuttgart. There are currently no direct scheduled services to anywhere in France, Spain or the United Kingdom.
Up until now over 80% of Sarajevo’s traffic has been generated by airlines originating from somewhere other than Bosnia & Herzegovina. |
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