Visit-Montenegro.com : Number of Passengers Higher by Half Percent

Tivat – 3,431 airport landed at Tivat airport between 1 January and 31 August, which is by 13, 4 percent more flights than this airport has serviced during the same period last year.

At the same time, 435,339 have traveled across Tivat’s airport during the same period, which is by 0,5 percent more than was the case during the first eight months in 2007.

Although the number of aircrafts which have used the services of Tivat’s airport has significantly increased in comparison to 2007, number of passengers has not risen proportionally, due to the fact that aviation authorities have banned landing of Russian jumbo-jet airplanes “Ilusin II-86” and “Tupolev TU-152”, as they have caused too much noise.

Number of transferred passengers has, thus, increased only in symbolic terms, bearing in mind the fact that this figure could have been earned with servicing of larger number of smaller planes, which would have presented a substitute for large planes of “Ilusin” and “Tupolev” types.

During the month of August, airport served 119,138 passengers and 890 planes. Number of passengers has increased by 1, 03 percent in comparison to August 2007, while the number of admitted and serviced planes increased by 18, 8 percent in comparison to the same month in 2007.

Apart from the large number of passenger planes, flying on regular and charter flights, airport Tivat has also been used by a large number of private business planes, belonging to the, so called, general aviation.

Fire-extinguishing planes “Dromader”, which belong to Montenegrin Ministry of Interior, also took off from this airport during this summer.

Neither airport fees, nor 1,500 cubic meters of water, which the planes loaded, have been charged.

(2 September 2008)

By: S.L.