Business airports throughout the previous Yugoslavia dealt with a mixed whole of three.293.864 passengers in the course of the first two months of the yr, with 1.55 million travellers in February alone. Amongst them, in the course of the second and shortest month of the yr, three airports stood out for his or her excessive progress price. They embrace Belgrade with a year-on-year improve in February of 21.2% , Pristina with 37.5% progress, and Skopje, which had a 31.3% enhance in numbers. All three have beforehand seen their busiest February in 2023. Alternatively, three regional airports underperformed in the course of the month, together with Niš, which noticed a 19.1% slide in figures, in addition to a ten.4% lower on the pre-pandemic 2019, Banja Luka, which had 34.4% fewer passengers than in February 2023, and Tuzla, which shed 64.5% of its travellers year-on-year. The trio has been hit by a decline in flights and capability by low price carriers, notably Tuzla which is not a base for Wizz Air.

Through the first two months of the yr, Belgrade Airport ranked 67th busiest on the continent, simply behind Tirana, Bristol, and Sofia, however forward of Reykjavik, Malta, and Stuttgart. Pristina positioned itself because the 98th busiest, behind Luxembourg, Tbilisi and Vilnius however in entrance of Stavanger in Norway and Newcastle. Zagreb took 103rd place. It was behind the likes of Pisa, and Cagliari, however forward of Wroclaw and Hannover. Skopje ranked 114th, with the Macedonian capital behind Ibiza, Treviso, and Cluj however outperforming Salzburg, Memmingen and Chisinau. Through the first two months of the yr, the Macedonian market was the second-fastest rising in Europe, rising its general figures by 39.5%. It was behind solely Albania with 59.4% progress. In distinction, the market in Bosnia and Herzegovina noticed the most important year-on-year decline in Europe, contracting 19.6%. Elsewhere, the market in Kosovo grew 28.9%, Slovenia 22.8%, Serbia 22%, Croatia 12.1%, and Montenegro 5.5%.

European rank of choose regional airports by passenger numbers 

Nearly all of European markets noticed year-on-year progress in the course of the first two months of the yr. Along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the exceptions had been Russia (-15.4%), Moldova (-2.4%), and Armenia (-0.8%). London Heathrow was as soon as once more Europe’s busiest airport over the two-month interval, with 11.807.060 passengers, nonetheless, Istanbul’s most important gateway is sizzling on its heels with 11.775.071 travellers. Each noticed progress of 10.5% on 2023. They had been adopted by Paris Charles de Gaulle with 9.611.141 passengers, Madrid with 9.499.466, Amsterdam with 9.170.818 travellers, Frankfurt with 7.921.971, Barcelona with 7.155.251, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen with 6.337.536, Rome Fiumicino with 5.857.647 and London Gatwick with 5.144.380 passengers. Out of Europe’s high ten busiest, 4 are nonetheless under their pre-pandemic 2019 information. They embrace Paris Charles de Gaulle (-8.1%), Amsterdam (-6.9%), Frankfurt (-13.9%), and London Gatwick (-15%).