Nedim Sladic, the most famous meteorologist from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) who is studying in the United Kingdom (UK) wrote on Facebook to express his displeasure following announcements that low-cost airline Ryanair may suspend all flights to Tuzla.
His status is transmitted in its entirety.
Furious over disputed fee
”In normal countries, air connections are established every day, connections expand and new destinations are opened. I am still furious because due to the disputed tax we are left without one of the main ways of income influx considering that tourism has become a very important factor in recent years. And innocent citizens always have to deal with consequences. It is not enough for us that Wizz left and literally made it impossible for us to connect more easily (not very easily, but certainly much easier) to Europe, so now we are forced to make all connections via Istanbul, cross double routes and waste time on unnecessary layovers of 15+ hours, and now, slowly but surely, Ryanair is withdrawing from Tuzla.
“The isolated circle that everyone avoids”
There is not much to tell about the connection between Sarajevo and Tuzla, it is unfortunate that this road turns into a real path for car rushes, because sometimes you have to leave earlier, several hours in advance, because, well, you have to overcome all the difficulties on the road, and unfortunately people get killed in a hurry. Also, if weather problems are included – the icing has already been served on the cake. And it continues until we become an isolated circle that everyone avoids. And the worst part is that others may not want it, but it seems that someone is persistently and diligently trying to disconnect us from the rest of Europe and the world.
”The last one to leave the country should turn off the lights,” wrote Sladic on Facebook.
Sladic won a new award at the University of Reading. This means that, as he explained in his post on Facebook, he won the title of the best weather forecaster in the master’s student category.
He said that it is a small, but for him, a big victory going to BiH:
His post is shown below:
”First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude and say a big thank you for all the nice and positive words that followed after the seventh week of my participation in the meteorological competition that we played this semester as part of my Master’s studies at the University of Reading and where, I competed withnumerous undergraduates and master’s students from different parts of the world, including our teaching staff. I must admit that I was surprised by the great interest of both the media and the people in my list of friends. Also, from the seventh week (November) until today, I put in a lot of effort and will to keep my first place. Today, the last day of the first semester, there are the final results and awards.
Today, the number one university in Europe, and especially the department of meteorology, which until September 2022 did not have a single full-time student from BiH, received a winner from BiH. Hearing the name and surname pronounced correctly, and even with the affricate in the surname for which they made a special effort to practice, as well as the name of the country I come from, created a special feeling of pride and happiness on my face.
It is an even greater pride, and at the same time another victory of mine, to receive sincere congratulations from your professors who taught you and who will teach you in the next 4 to 6 months and to hear words that they are proud of me and my achievements, especially from the professor who continues to work for the United KingdomMeteorological Office (UK Met Office).
Today I conclude the first semester with a victory, one among many in a series of victories in the past hectic two months in which I read as much material as for four years of university education,” he wrote on Monday.
