Pristina International Airport

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 Prishtina, Kosovo.[lower-alpha 1] 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.

Prishtina International Airport
Adem Jashari

Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës
Adem Jashari
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorLimak Kosovo International Airport J.S.C.[1]
ServesPristina, Kosovo
LocationSlatina, Fushë Kosovë, Kosovo
Opened
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL545 m / 1,789 ft
Coordinates42°34′22″N 021°02′09″E
WebsiteOfficial website
Map
PRN
Location in Kosovo
PRN
Location in the Mediterranean
PRN
Location in Europe
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 3,000 9,842 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Passengers2,180,809 97%
Aircraft movements18,226 8.6%

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]

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.[8] This ultimately results in flight paths avoiding Serbian territory with flights to Pristina having to enter via Albanian or Macedonian airspace.[9] 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:[10][11]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Cairo Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh (begins 19 July 2022)[12]
AnadoluJet Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[13][14]
Seasonal: Bodrum[15]
Austrian Airlines[16] Vienna
British Airways[17] Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Chair Airlines[18] Zürich
easyJet[19] Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Geneva
Seasonal: London–Gatwick (begins 4 May 2022)[20]
Edelweiss Air[21] Zürich
Enter Air[22] Basel/Mulhouse
Seasonal: Verona[22]
ETF Airways Basel/Mulhouse, Gothenburg, Helsinki
Eurowings[23] Brussels,[24] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Nuremberg,[25] Stuttgart, Zürich[26]
GP Aviation Seasonal charter: Münster/Osnabrück,[27] Nuremberg[28]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Zürich[29]
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin (begins 6 June 2022)[30]
Norwegian Air Shuttle[31] Oslo
Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm–Arlanda
Pegasus Airlines[32] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Swiss International Air Lines[33] Geneva
Trade Air Basel/Mulhouse, Düsseldorf, Malmö, Munich, Stuttgart[34]
Seasonal: Bremen, Dortmund, Paderborn/Lippstadt[34]
TUIfly Belgium Brussels
Turkish Airlines[35] Istanbul
Wizz Air[36] Basel/Mulhouse, Dortmund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, London–Luton, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna

Statistics
Check-in hall
Annual passenger traffic at PRN airport. See source Wikidata query.
Passenger and Flight movements statistics (2004–2019)[37]
Year Passengers Change Flight Departures Change
2004 910,797 9.1% 4,716 13.3%
2005 930,346 2.1% 4,983 5.7%
2006 882,731 5.1% 4,077 18.2%
2007 990,259 12.2% 4,316 5.9%
2008 1,130,639 14.2% 4,928 14.2%
2009 1,191,978 5.4% 5,709 15.9%
2010 1,305,532 9.5% 6,143 7.6%
2011 1,422,302 8.9% 6,738 9.7%
2012 1,527,134 7.4% 6,947 3.1%
2013 1,628,678 6.6% 7,305 5.2%
2014 1,404,775 13.7% 5,994 17.9%
2015 1,549,198 10.3% 6,773 13.0%
2016 1,744,202 12.6% 7,254 7.1%
2017 1,885,136 8.0% 7,508 3.5%
2018 2,165,749 14.7% 8,388 11.7%
2019 2,373,698 9.6% 18,226 8.6%
2020 1,102,091 53.4% N/A
2021 2,180,809 97%

Accidents and incidents

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, it is formally recognised as an independent state by 97 UN member states (with another 15 recognising it at some point but then withdrawing recognition), while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.

References
  1. "PPP Public Procurement Number PPP-09-001-611" (PDF). Partneritetet Kosova. 12 August 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  2. "Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Kosovo" (PDF). Caa-ks.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.)
  3. http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/publicuser/protect/pu/main.jsp 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. 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. "Focus on Kosovo". The Controller.
  9. "Focus on Kosovo". The Controller.
  10. airportpristina.com - Destinations Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 25 January 2019
  11. "Kosovo bans flights from European markets". exyuaviation.com. 13 March 2020.
  12. "Air Cairo to launch Pristina charters". exyuaviation.com.
  13. "AnadoluJet to launch Pristina operations". exyuaviation.com.
  14. "AnadoluJet upgrades Sarajevo, Pristina service". exyuaviation.com.
  15. "AnadoluJet adds three more EX-YU routes". exyuaviation.com.
  16. https://www.austrian.com/us/en/flight-status-and-timetable#/
  17. "British Airways - Timetables".
  18. "Chair Airlines".
  19. https://www.easyjet.com/en/cheap-flights/timetables
  20. "EasyJet to launch new Pristina service".
  21. "Timetable".
  22. https://www.airprishtina.com
  23. https://www.eurowings.com/en/information/destinations-routes/flight-schedule.html
  24. "Eurowings to launch new Pristina service".
  25. "Eurowings to launch new Pristina service".
  26. "Eurowings to launch new Pristina service".
  27. https://www.fmo.de/fileadmin/fmo/media/user_upload/pdf/Sommerflugplan2022.pdf
  28. "Neues Flugziel: Ab Nürnberg nach Pristina".
  29. https://www.illyrianeagle.ch
  30. https://www.exyuaviation.com/2022/04/lot-to-commence-pristina-operations.html
  31. https://www.norwegian.com/en/destinations/Pristina-Alldestinations
  32. "Our Network | Pegasus Airlines".
  33. https://www.swiss.com/ch/en/book/flight-information/timetable
  34. https://www.flyrbp.com/
  35. https://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/flights/
  36. "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more".
  37. caa-ks.org - Statistics retrieved 16 February 2017
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