Pristina airport
| Pristina International Airport Adem Jashari Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës Adem Jashari Међународни аеродром Приштина Адем Јашари |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | BKPR |
| IATA code | PRN |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 545 m (1788 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 15 km southwest of Pristina |
| Street | National road M-9 / Motorway R 7 ( E851 ) |
| Local transport | Bus shuttle |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1965 |
| operator | LIMAK Kosovo International Airport Joint Stock Company (JSC) Pristina International Airport "Adem Jashari" |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 2,373,698 (2019) |
| Air freight | 1,200 t (2019) |
| Flight movements |
9,113 (2019) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 17/35 | 2501 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Pristina Airport (Pristina International Airport "Adem Jashari") is an airport in Pristina , the capital of Kosovo . It is located around 15 kilometers southwest of the city near the M-9 expressway . It is named after Adem Jashari , a co-founder of the Albanian paramilitary UÇK .
history
The airport was opened at this location in 1965 for connections within Yugoslavia.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Republic of Kosovo decided on March 13th until further notice to ban travelers from Germany, Italy , France and Switzerland . All flight connections have been canceled.
Slatina Air Force Base
On the military part of the airport, which was named after the local village of Sllatina, a larger aircraft barracks was built in the 1960s . This cavity was the second main base for the Yugoslav Air Force (RV i PVO) and harboring 83. LAP ( fighter regiment ) with the two fighter pilot scales (123. and 124. LAE) with a total of 24 fighter aircraft type MiG-21bis "Fishbed" .
In the course of the Kosovo war , a total of ten air strikes were carried out on the base by F-15 "Strike Eagle" of NATO from April 22, 1999 . The combat aircraft in the aircraft cavern could not be damaged. After the war, KFOR owned the caverns and handed them over to the Kosovar police at the end of 2010 .
After the fighting ceased and the KFOR control of Kosovo began , the airport hit the headlines when Russian paratroopers occupied the airport on June 12, 1999, without consulting Western countries with their advance to Pristina .
Civil use
In 1985 the airport was equipped with modern equipment in accordance with ICAO standards.
After the war in Kosovo , it was completely renovated and expanded into an international airport. Initially only occasional charter flights with Air Prishtina and Kosova Airlines were handled. 2003 saw the first scheduled flight operations of Kosova Airlines with a Boeing 737-700 , followed in 2004 by Air Prishtina with an Airbus A320 , but gave it up again in the same year. Kosova Airlines also discontinued flight operations in 2006.
It has been operated by the Turkish LIMAK Holding since 2010 .
On October 23, 2013, after a two-year construction period, a new terminal was opened around one kilometer south of the old one. It should handle up to 1.5 million passengers a year. Since the expansion, the airport now has three passenger boarding bridges.
Today's use as a commercial airport
Originally the airport had three runways. In addition to the actual runway, one runway is used as an access road to the airport, the other is used to park aircraft. The aircraft are boarded and disembarked via gangways and the newly built terminal. The airport has a business lounge.
Today, for example, Eurowings , Swiss , Edelweiss Air , TUI Airlines Belgium , Turkish Airlines , Pegasus Airlines , Austrian Airlines , Wizz Air and Norwegian Air Shuttle fly to Pristina. The low-cost airline easyJet has been flying from Geneva and Basel-Mulhouse to Pristina since summer 2010 . In the meantime, flights from Berlin-Schönefeld are also offered. Adria Airways flies from Frankfurt am Main and Munich . These flights are operated as code-sharing flights with Lufthansa .
Incidents
- On November 12, 1999, a United Nations chartered ATR 42-300 of Si Fly crashed into a mountain while approaching Pristina Airport in Kosovo . All 24 occupants were killed (see also Si-Fly flight 3275 ) .
See also
Web links
- airportpristina.com Official Site (English)
- Aeronautical map for Pristina Airport on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c AIP KOSOVO PART 3 - AERODROMES (AD). (PDF; 21.86 MB) In: caa-ks.org. Civil Aviation Authority Republic of Kosovo, August 6, 2015, pp. AD 2.1 - 1 , archived from the original on March 21, 2017 ; accessed on March 21, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b c Statistics on passengers, flights and cargo at PIA Adem Jashari 2019. Civil Aviation Authority Republic of Kosovo, accessed on June 21, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b c History. In: Prishtina International Airport Adem Jashari / Limak Kosovo. Retrieved June 20, 2015 .
- ^ Kosovo: Travel and Security Advice. Federal Foreign Office, March 12, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)