During the January – August period, Belgrade Airport welcomed over 2.044.000 travellers. As a result, the airport has achieved 49.6% of its pre-pandemic traffic, which is in line with its target for this year. The airport anticipates handling some 2.9 million passengers in 2021, or around 50% of its pre-pandemic traffic. Based on its estimates and modelling, the airport should welcome five million travellers through its doors in 2022 and will be operating at 2019 levels in 2023, when it expects to handle 6.1 million passengers. The airport estimates figures should grow to 6.9 million in 2024, 7.3 million in 2025 and 7.7 million travellers by the end of 2026. The airport’s record year remains 2019 when it registered 6.158.897 passengers, of which 2.733.304 were carried by Air Serbia and 3.425.552 by foreign airlines. In the pandemic-stricken 2020, the airport welcomed 1.903.540 passengers, of which 865.121 were handled by the national carrier and 1.038.399 by the rest.
During the eight-month period of this year, Belgrade Airport was in the top 55 busiest on the continent, outperforming the likes of Sofia, Budapest, Helsinki, Venice, Riga and Manchester. Commercial aircraft movements decreased 35.1% on the same period in 2019. Air Serbia offered the most capacity from the airport so far this year, with a 55.2%…