Pristina International Airport

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Pristina International Airport
Adem Jashari

Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës
Adem Jashari
Internacionalni Aerodrom Priština
Adem Jashari
AirportiPrishtines.svg
Prishtina International Airport "Adem Jashari" Limak Kosovo.jpg
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorLimak Kosovo International Airport J.S.C.[1]
ServesPristina, Kosovo
LocationSlatina, Kosovo Polje, Kosovo
Opened
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL545 m / 1,789 ft
Coordinates42°34′22″N 021°02′09″E / 42.57278°N 21.03583°E / 42.57278; 21.03583Coordinates: 42°34′22″N 021°02′09″E / 42.57278°N 21.03583°E / 42.57278; 21.03583
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
Map
PRN is located in Kosovo
PRN
PRN
Location in Kosovo
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 2,501 8,210 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Passengers1,102,091 Decrease 53,4%
Aircraft movements18,226 Increase 8.6%

Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari (Albanian: Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës Adem Jashari, IATA: PRN, ICAO: BKPR), also referred to as Pristina International Airport (Albanian: Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës), is an international airport in Pristina, Kosovo.[a] The airport is located 15 km (9.3 mi) south-west of the city of Pristina, Kosovo. The airport has flights to numerous European destinations.

The airport is the only port of entry for air travelers to Kosovo.[2] It is named in honour of Adem Jashari, the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Pristina International Airport serves as an operating base for Eurowings from Germany and, formerly, Adria Airways from Slovenia.

History[]

From 12 to 26 June 1999, there was a brief but tense stand-off between NATO and the Russian Kosovo Force in which Russian troops occupied the airport. A contingent of 200[4] Russian troops deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina then crossed into Kosovo and occupied the airport in Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo.

The apron and the passenger terminal were renovated and expanded in 2002 and again in 2009. In June 2006, Pristina International Airport was awarded the Best Airport 2006 Award by Airports Council International (ACI). Winning airports were selected for excellence and achievement across a range of disciplines including airport development, operations, facilities, security and safety, and customer service.[5]

On 12 November 2008, Pristina International Airport received for the first time in its history the annual one-millionth passenger (excluding military). A special ceremony was held at the airport where the one-millionth passenger received a free return ticket to a destination of his choice served by the airport.[6]

In late 2010, the airport was renamed from Pristina International Airport to Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari, the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s.[7]

In early 2020, Orange2Fly ended all flights at the airport, where it operated four scheduled routes to Germany and Switzerland and was the fifth largest airline in 2019. The routes were taken over by Air Mediterranean.[8]

Due to the ongoing dispute between Serbia and Kosovo, flights to and from Pristina International Airport are impacted by the refusal of ATC in Serbia, namely SMATSA, to allow overflights via Serbian airspace.[9] This ultimately results in flight paths avoiding Serbian territory with flights to Pristina having to enter via Albanian or Macedonian airspace.[10] This dispute can generally add up to 30 minutes to a flight duration and discussions to overcome this dispute have so far failed. Being the only operational airport in the immediate region, any diversions would ultimately have go to either North Macedonia, Albania or Bulgaria, given that the Gjakova Airport is still a closed facility.

Airlines and destinations[]

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Pristina:[11][12]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Prishtina[13] Basel/Mulhouse, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
AnadoluJet Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[14][15]
Seasonal: Bodrum[16]
Austrian Airlines[17] Vienna
British Airways[18] Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Chair Airlines[19] Zürich
easyJet[20] Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Geneva
Edelweiss Air[21] Zürich
Eurowings[22] Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stockholm–Arlanda (begins 2 April 2022),[23] Stuttgart
Seasonal: Bremen, Charleroi, Malmö[24]
Helvetic Airways[25] Zürich
Norwegian Air Shuttle[26] Helsinki, Oslo
Pegasus Airlines[27] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Swiss International Air Lines[28] Geneva
Trade Air Seasonal: Maastricht/Aachen[29]
TUI fly Belgium[30] Amsterdam, Brussels
Turkish Airlines[31] Istanbul
Wizz Air[32] Basel/Mulhouse, Dortmund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, London–Luton, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna

Statistics[]

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Passenger and Flight movements statistics (2004–2019)[33]
Year Passengers Change Flight Departures Change
2004 910,797 9.1% 4,716 13.3%
2005 930,346 Increase 2.1% 4,983 Increase 5.7%
2006 882,731 Decrease 5.1% 4,077 Decrease 18.2%
2007 990,259 Increase 12.2% 4,316 Increase 5.9%
2008 1,130,639 Increase 14.2% 4,928 Increase 14.2%
2009 1,191,978 Increase 5.4% 5,709 Increase 15.9%
2010 1,305,532 Increase 9.5% 6,143 Increase 7.6%
2011 1,422,302 Increase 8.9% 6,738 Increase 9.7%
2012 1,527,134 Increase 7.4% 6,947 Increase 3.1%
2013 1,628,678 Increase 6.6% 7,305 Increase 5.2%
2014 1,404,775 Decrease 13.7% 5,994 Decrease 17.9%
2015 1,549,198 Increase 10.3% 6,773 Increase 13.0%
2016 1,744,202 Increase 12.6% 7,254 Increase 7.1%
2017 1,885,136 Increase 8.0% 7,508 Increase 3.5%
2018 2,165,749 Increase 14.7% 8,388 Increase 11.7%
2019 2,373,698 Increase 9.6% 18,226 Increase 8.6%
2020 1,102,091 Decrease 53.4% N/A
2021 220,009 Decrease 19.6%

See also[]

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states are said to have recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References[]

  1. ^ "PPP Public Procurement Number PPP-09-001-611" (PDF). Partneritetet Kosova. 12 August 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Kosovo" (PDF). Caa-ks.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.[permanent dead link])
  3. ^ [1] Archived 25 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Singer James Blunt 'stopped World War 3'". BBC. 14 November 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2014. In an interview with BBC Radio 5Live, to be broadcast later on Sunday, he said: "I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.
  5. ^ [2] Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Prishtina airport hits 1 million passengers". New Kosova Report. 12 November 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Renaming Balkan airports to annoy the neighbours". The Economist. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ exyuaviation.com - Air Mediterranean to be based in Pristina 29 January 2021
  9. ^ "Focus on Kosovo". The Controller.
  10. ^ "Focus on Kosovo". The Controller.
  11. ^ airportpristina.com - Destinations Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 25 January 2019
  12. ^ "Kosovo bans flights from European markets". exyuaviation.com. 13 March 2020.
  13. ^ https://www.airprishtina.com/en/destinations/prishtina/
  14. ^ "AnadoluJet to launch Pristina operations". exyuaviation.com.
  15. ^ "AnadoluJet upgrades Sarajevo, Pristina service". exyuaviation.com.
  16. ^ "AnadoluJet adds three more EX-YU routes". exyuaviation.com.
  17. ^ https://www.austrian.com/us/en/flight-status-and-timetable#/
  18. ^ "British Airways - Timetables".
  19. ^ https://www.chair.ch/explore-en/kosovo-prishtina
  20. ^ https://www.easyjet.com/en/cheap-flights/timetables
  21. ^ "Timetable".
  22. ^ https://www.eurowings.com/en/information/destinations-routes/flight-schedule.html
  23. ^ https://newscloud.eurowings.com/de/meldungen/2021/q3/eurowings-eroeffnet-basis-in-schweden.html
  24. ^ "Eurowings to launch new Pristina flights".
  25. ^ "Flight plan | Helvetic Airways".
  26. ^ https://www.norwegian.com/en/destinations/Pristina-Alldestinations
  27. ^ "Our Network | Pegasus Airlines".
  28. ^ https://www.swiss.com/ch/en/book/flight-information/timetable
  29. ^ "Trade Air twee keer per week van Maastricht naar Kosovo". luchtvaartnieuws.nl. 2 July 2021.
  30. ^ https://www.tuifly.be/en/new-flight-schedule
  31. ^ https://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/flights/
  32. ^ "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more".
  33. ^ caa-ks.org - Statistics retrieved 16 February 2017

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