Mostar Airport is in negotiations with three low-cost airlines, which could start flights to the largest city in Herzegovina in 2024, which would record positive business, confirmed the director of Mostar Airport, Marko Đuzel.
“We are negotiating with three low-cost carriers, although I cannot disclose their names at this time. If these negotiations are successful, we expect them to start flights next year. If we are not successful, we will turn to expanding operations in the markets we currently serve, such as adding flights to Rome or new services to Italy. Our goal is to recover the Polish market, which is important to us, and which we lost a few months ago,” said Duzel.
This spring, Mostar Airport established its first regular flights after several years, and on May 3rd, Croatia Airlines started year-round flights between Mostar and Zagreb, enabling the residents of Herzegovina to connect with a network of European and international flights.
Aeroitalia launched seasonal flights to Mostar from Forli, which will be completed on Saturday, June 3, with the introduction of Lumiwings summer flights from Foggia.
The former director of the Mostar airport, Ivan Ljubić, on his departure from that position, said last month that the negotiations with the low-cost company Ryanair are entering the final phase.
Last year, Mostar Airport signed a contract with Wizz Air to start flights during 2023 and they were supposed to start on May 1 this year, but they were extended to 2024.
The head of the commercial department of Mostar Airport, Nedeljko Ćorić, told Klix.ba that a three-year contract was signed with Wizz Air last year, and that the expected flights this year were extended to 2024 because Wizz Air had certain internal problems to implement.
“We hope that next year’s flights will really be chartered,” Ćorić told Klix.ba at the time.
The exact number of routes and destinations that Wizz Air will connect to Mostar by air has never been officially revealed, and the two parties previously discussed services from Scandinavia and Germany, and initially proposed Malmo and Dortmund, Klix.ba reports.
