Pristina International Airport

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Template:Airport end frame Prishtina International Airport (IATA: PRN, ICAO: BKPR / LYPR) Albanian: Aeroporti Ndërkombëtar i Prishtinës)(Serbian: Међународни аеродром Приштина, Međunarodni aerodrom Priština; is an international airport located 16km outside of Prishtina, in the Serbian southern province of Kosovo. It is a regional airport that handles around a million passengers per year. Since it is under the authority of NATO/UNMIK, it is not considered to be a port of entry by the authorities of the Republic of Serbia.

Prishtina International Airport carries out airport services such as receiving and sending off planes and passengers, cargo depot, catering and sells goods, as well as performs other commercial activities for airport users, such as renting the business premises, parking facilities and other.

History

Prishtina Airport was officially opened in 1965. It was initially opened for domestic flights only - to and from Belgrade.

During the 1990s the airport started operating international flights, mainly to and from Switzerland and Germany. Following the Kosovo War, the airport was reactivated as a military airport on October 15, 1999 and then started to operate international civilian air transport to several European cities. During that period of time the Russian KFOR forces along with other NATO forces and allies were in charge for security of the airport. Airport Prishtina initially begun its operations and other airport matters with 45 employed workers in total.

The apron and the passenger terminal were renovated and expanded in 2002. In 2006 the airport served 882,731 passengers. In the last 3 years the company renovated and reorganized the airport completely.

Award

In June 2006, Prishtina International Airport was awarded the ‘Best Airport 2006 Award’, an honour presented by Airport Council International (ACI). Airports across Europe once again competed in the ‘ACI EUROPE Best Airport Awards’ for the prestigious title of ‘Best Airport 2006’. Winning airports were selected for excellence and achievement across a range of disciplines including airport development, operations, facilities, security and safety, and customer service.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate to and from Prishtina (as of November 2007):

Scheduled Airlines

• Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
• Albanian Airlines (Tirana)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • Tyrolean Airways
  • Lauda Air
• Belle Air (Munich, Tirana)
• British Airways (London-Gatwick)
• Eurofly (Milan Malpensa)
  • Code sharing with Meridiana
• Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart)
• Hamburg International (Munich, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart)
• Hemus Air (Sofia) seasonal
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• Meridiana (Verona, Olbia, Cagliari, Milan-Malpensa)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo) (starts June 17, 2008)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

Charter Airlines

• airberlin (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Munich)
• Air Italy (Verona)
• ATA Airlines (New York-JFK) seasonal
• Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
• Belair (Geneva, Zurich) seasonal
• Club Air (Ancona)
• Edelweiss Air (Geneva, Zurich)
• FlyNordic (Gothenburg) seasonal
• Hello (Geneva, Zurich)
• Monarch Airlines (Medina) Special charters for the Hajj season
• SunExpress (Antalya) seasonal
• Swiss International Air Lines (Geneva, Zurich)
• XL Airways Germany (Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Geneva, Zurich)
  • XL Airways Germany flights from Geneva & Zurich on behalf of Edelweiss Air

Sources

• Template:Sr icon Aeronautical Information Publication

External links

• Priština International Airport
• Priština Airport map
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See also

• List of the largest airports in the South Slavic countries