Priština_International_Airport

Adem Jashari Pristina International Airport

Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës
Adem Jashari
Adem Jashari Pristina International Airport; Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës; Adem Jashari
	IATA: PRN; ICAO: BKPR;
Summary
Airport type	Public/Military
Operator	Limak Kosovo International Airport J.S.C.
Serves	Pristina
Location	Lipjan, Kosovo
Opened	1965; 59 years ago; (as domestic airport); 15 October 1999; 24 years ago (as international airport);
Elevation AMSL	545 m / 1,789 ft
Coordinates	42°34′22″N 021°02′09″E
Website	Official website
Map
	PRN Location in Kosovo PRN Location in the Mediterranean PRN Location in Europe
Runways
Statistics (2023)
Passengers
Passengers	3,424,883 14.3%
Aircraft movements	23,082 5.8%
	Sources: Civil Aviation Authority of Kosovo; Kosovo AIP at EUROCONTROL;

Pristina International Airport

Airport in Pristina, Kosovo

The Adem Jashari Prishtina International Airport (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. The airport is located 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest of the city of Pristina, Kosovo. The airport has flights to numerous European destinations.

Quick Facts Adem Jashari Pristina International Airport Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i PrishtinësAdem Jashari, Summary ...

The airport is the only port of entry for air travelers to Kosovo.^[2] It is named in honor Adem Jashari, the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

History

The airport was originally built as Slatina Air Base, containing the second-largest military underground hangar complex in Yugoslavia.

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 possessed the airport. A contingent of 200^[4] Russian troops deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, crossed over into Kosovo and captured the airport in Pristina.

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.^[8] 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 to go to either North Macedonia, Albania, or Bulgaria, given that the Gjakova Airport is still a closed facility.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Priština_International_Airport, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] [1]
"PPP Public Procurement Number PPP-09-001-611" (PDF). Partneritetet Kosova. 12 August 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 9 April 2016.

[paxstats-2] [2]
"Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of Kosovo" (PDF). Caa-ks.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018. ^{[permanent dead link]})

[AIP-3] [3]
"EAD Eurocontrol". Archived from the original on 25 February 2009.

[BBCnews1-4] [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] [5]
"Home | Pristina International Airport". www.limakkosovo.aero. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008.

[one-6] [6]
"Pristina airport hits 1 million passengers". New Kosova Report. 12 November 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

[7] [7]
"Renaming Balkan airports to annoy the neighbours". The Economist. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

[Focus-8] [8]
"Focus on Kosovo". The Controller. Archived from the original on 27 May 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

[9] [9]
airportpristina.com - Destinations Archived 16 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 25 January 2019

[10] [10]
"Kosovo bans flights from European markets". exyuaviation.com. 13 March 2020.

[11] [11]
"Aegean Airlines to run Pristina charters". exyuaviation.com. 28 March 2024.

[12] [12]
"airBaltic to launch Ljubljana, Skopje and Pristina flights". exyuaviation.com. 30 August 2023.

[13] [13]
"AnadoluJet to launch Pristina operations". exyuaviation.com. 15 March 2021.

[14] [14]
"AnadoluJet upgrades Sarajevo, Pristina service". exyuaviation.com. 10 August 2021.

[15] [15]
"AnadoluJet adds three more EX-YU routes". exyuaviation.com. 22 March 2021.

[16] [16]
"Flight status & Itinerary". Austrian Airlines.

[17] [17]
"Chair Airlines". www.chair.ch.^{[full citation needed]}

[18] [18]
https://www.airprishtina.com/en/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[19] [19]
https://www.airliners.de/chair-airlines-pristina-route-stuttgart/73464

[20] [20]
"Condor to launch Pristina flights". exyuaviation.com. 23 January 2023.

[21] [21]
"NAJAVE: Condor pokreće Hamburg-Priština". zamaaero.com. 25 August 2023.

[22] [22]
"Charter: Condor bedient München-Pristina". Aviation Direct. 20 July 2023.

[23] [23]
"CONDOR ADDS STUTTGART – PRISHTINA IN NS24".

[24] [24]
https://www.airliners.de/corendon-fliegt-pristina-streicht-verbindungen-nuernberg/73293

[25] [25]
"Flights Timetables". EasyJet.

[26] [26]
"Timetable". www.flyedelweiss.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

[27] [27]
"Flight Schedule". Eurowings.^{[dead link]}

[28] [28]
https://www.prishtinaticket.net/?lang=en. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[29] [29]
"PRVI OBJAVLJUJEMO – NAJAVE: Gp aviation pokreće Priština-Halmstad". zamaaero.com.

[auto1-30] [30]
"GP Aviation Expands Prishtina Nework in Nov/Dec 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 8 November 2023.

[31] [31]
"SOMMERFLUGPLAN 2022" (PDF). Münster Osnabrück Airport. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2022.

[32] [32]
"Neues Flugziel: Ab Nürnberg nach Pristina". www.airport-nuernberg.de.

[33] [33]
"Fly to All destinations from Pristina | Norwegian".

[34] [34]
"Norwegian NS24 Network Additions – 14NOV23". AeroRoutes.

[35] [35]
"Our Network | Pegasus Airlines".

[36] [36]
"Pegasus NS24 Antalya Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 8 November 2023.

[37] [37]
"NAJAVE: SAS pokreće i Priština-Copenhagen". 11 March 2024.

[38] [38]
"SunExpress to launch Pristina operations". 21 November 2022.

[39] [39]
"SunExpress to launch new Pristina and Podgorica flights". 26 September 2023.

[40] [40]
"Arrivals and departures". Swiss International Air Lines.

[Germany-41] [41]
"Deutschland: Trade Air mit drei weiteren Kosovo-Strecken". 27 February 2024.

[flyrbp.com-42] [42]
"Reisebüro PRISTINA: Fluturime të lira për në KOSOVË, Gjermani dhe Zvicër - Rezervoni online në PISHTINË - Bazel, Cyrih, Dusseldorf, STUTTGART dhe Mynih". flyrbp.com. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

[43] [43]
"Our Destinations". Turkish Airlilnes.

[44] [44]
"WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more". wizzair.com.^{[full citation needed]}

[45] [45]
caa-ks.org - Statistics retrieved 16 February 2017

[46] [46]
"A guide to public transport in Pristina, Kosovo". kosovogirltravels.com. 30 April 2019.

[auto-47] [47]
"Orari dhe linjat". trafikurban-pr.com.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[31]

[32]

[33]

[34]

[35]

[36]

[37]

[38]

[39]

[40]

[41]

[42]

[43]

[44]

[45]

[46]

[47]

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal charter: Heraklion (begins 1 June 2024)^[11]
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga (begins 4 May 2024)^[12]
AJet	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen^[13]^[14] Seasonal: Bodrum^[15]
Austrian Airlines^[16]	Vienna
Chair Airlines^[17]	Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich^[18] Charter: Stuttgart^[19]
Condor	Seasonal charter: Düsseldorf,^[20] Hamburg,^[21] Munich,^[22] Stuttgart (begins 12 May 2024)^[23]
Corendon Airlines	Cologne/Bonn (begins 16 June 2024)^[24]
easyJet^[25]	Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Geneva
Edelweiss Air^[26]	Zürich
Eurowings^[27]	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
GP Aviation^[28]	Seasonal charter: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Halmstad,^[29] Hannover, Ljubljana,^[30] Luxembourg, Memmingen,^[30] Munich, Münster/Osnabrück,^[31] Nuremberg,^[32] Stuttgart, Växjö
Norwegian Air Shuttle^[33]	Oslo Seasonal: Copenhagen, Gothenburg (resumes 14 June 2024),^[34] Helsinki, Stockholm–Arlanda
Pegasus Airlines^[35]	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen Seasonal: Antalya (resumes 1 June 2024)^[36]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 3 July 2024)^[37]
SunExpress	Seasonal: Antalya,^[38] İzmir (begins 3 June 2024)^[39]
Swiss International Air Lines^[40]	Geneva
Trade Air	Charter: Basel/Mulhouse, Bremen, Dortmund, Gothenburg, Hahn,^[41] Helsinki, Malmö, Memmingen (begins 24 July 2024),^[41] Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn (begins 24 July 2024),^[41] Stuttgart^[42]
TUI fly Belgium	Brussels
Turkish Airlines^[43]	Istanbul
Wizz Air^[44]	Dortmund, London–Luton, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Vienna

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%	8,472	53.5%
2021	2,180,809	97%	17,842	110.6%
2022	2,994,560	37.3%	21,842	21.3%
2023	3,424,883	14.3%	23,082	5.8%

Priština_International_Airport

Pristina International Airport

History

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Ground transportation

Car

Taxi

Bus

Accidents and incidents

See also

Notes and references

References

External links

Share this article: