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Jan 21, 2019 (newstodate): After a lengthy process, the new carrier FlyBosnia has received its AOC on January 15, 2019, and is now awaiting the launch of commercial services.
The carrier has one Airbus A319 in the fleet and plans for flights to start on the route connecting Sarajevo and Riyadh.
These flights were already planned to lift off by June 2018, but the airline failed to land its AOC from the Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Civil Aviation that found shortcomings in the documentation.
Behind the new carrier is the al-Shiddi Group, the largest Saudi investor in Bosnia and Herzegovina and operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2006.
Already in 2004, a consortium of UK and other companies planned to set up a new airline carrying the same name FlyBosnia, to be based at Sarajevo and holding lofty ambitions to start flying between the UK and Bosnia as well as between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina from summer 2005 - but the project soon stalled.
The carrier has one Airbus A319 in the fleet and plans for flights to start on the route connecting Sarajevo and Riyadh.
These flights were already planned to lift off by June 2018, but the airline failed to land its AOC from the Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for Civil Aviation that found shortcomings in the documentation.
Behind the new carrier is the al-Shiddi Group, the largest Saudi investor in Bosnia and Herzegovina and operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2006.
Already in 2004, a consortium of UK and other companies planned to set up a new airline carrying the same name FlyBosnia, to be based at Sarajevo and holding lofty ambitions to start flying between the UK and Bosnia as well as between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina from summer 2005 - but the project soon stalled.