The number of passengers using services of the International Airport Tuzla was increased to 406,688 in the first nine months of 2017, in comparison to the same period last year when 233,097 passengers were recorded.
Passenger traffic was increased to 90 % only in September when a total of 52,816 passengers were transported. During the last six years until the end of September this year, a total of 1,198,525 passengers arrived at the Airport Tuzla. Last year, the traffic was increased by 20 %.
The Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air introduced another airplane in the base in Tuzla, which will work on five new lines, and in order to increase frequencies on the existing routes for Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Malmo and Frankfurt Hahn.
During the year of 2017, Wizz Air announced the launch of six new lines from BiH in four countries. The company had about 310,000 passengers from Tuzla in 2016 and it supported around 230 local businesses.
It is expected for the number of passengers to be higher for about 45,000 passengers in the first three months of the next year since two planes will be operating.
(Source: klix.ba)
