Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has reported a significant increase in passenger numbers handled last month. The biggest airport in the former Yugoslavia handled 358.750 passengers in August 2010, compared to 300.750 in August 2009, an increase of 19.3%. This makes August 2010 the most successful since 1991. So far, from January to August, the airport welcomed 1.823.330 passengers, an increase of 9.9%.The arrival of low cost airlines is said to have had a direct impact on passenger numbers. The director of Belgrade Airport, Velimir Radosavljević, said that instead of taking passengers away from other airlines, low cost airlines have bought new customers to Belgrade. Since the low cost Wizz Air inaugurated flights from London Luton to Belgrade, the number of passengers travelling between the two cities rose by 27.1%. Wizz Air has a share of 27.8% of all passengers travelling to London. Other routes experiencing a boom from Belgrade include flights to Vienna, which have seen a 24.9% passenger surge and flights to Rome, Milan, Stockholm and Oslo. In 2009 the share of low cost airlines operating out of Belgrade stood at 4.5%. By September 2010 the number increased to 7%, while Radosavljević believes that by the end of the year the number will increase to 9%.
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