During July, Tivat Airport achieved a turnover of 170,505 passengers, which is almost a quarter better than the Tivat airport had in the same month last year.
However, what was achieved in July this year, because only a little over 61% of the volume of traffic in the same month for the Tivat airport so far in the record year 2019 (279,795 passengers), which shows that this airport is one of the few airports in the area of ​​the former of Yugoslavia that have not yet reached, let alone surpassed, their results from the period before the corona crisis in 2020.
In addition to the 2020 pandemic, from then until today, the bad results of Tivat Airport are decisively influenced by politics and war conditions in the east of Europe – first, Russia’s sanctions against Montenegro in the form of a complete suspension of air traffic between the two countries, which has lasted since 2020 until today, and then losses due to EU sanctions against that country and the market of Belarus, and then Ukraine due to the war in that country.
Thus, in just three years, through no direct fault of its own, Tivat airport lost more than a third of its total market. This airport, despite the efforts of the Airport of Montenegro to attract new airlines and open new markets for Tivat – primarily from the region of Central Asia and the Middle East, has not recovered to this day.
Currently, the local airport has a total of 160 flights per week, which is 26 weekly flights more than at the same time last year. There are currently 26 regular and seasonal carriers flying to Tivat, which is seven more airlines than at this time last year, but all that together is still insufficient to compensate for the huge number of lost flights, destinations and carriers that this airport previously had from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
During July of this year, a total of 2,133 aircraft takeoff and landing operations were recorded on the runway next to the Tivat Bay, which is 14% more than in the same month last year, but still 24% less than in July of the record year 2019.
From the beginning of this year until August 1st, Tivat Airport recorded a total traffic of 452,180 passengers on 6,032 aircraft operations.
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