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Apr 28, 2023 (newstodate): Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is keen to develop its air connectivity, now planning for introduction of a new incentives scheme to lure foreign airlines.
   Sarajevo sees a number of unserved routes in Europe of key interest to the country - including flights to Copenhagen.
   -The government of the Sarajevo Canton will directly assist in the launch of new routes that will link Sarajevo with points in Europe. These types of subsidies are already widely used across cities in the European Union, but also within our region, the country's PM says in local media.
   On May 20, 2021, Wizz Air opened a base at Sarajevo with one Airbus A320 aircraft, allowing the carrier to launch flights to nine destinations, including Copenhagen from May 22, 2021.
    The base was, however, closed down again already by the end of October 2022, and the flights to Copenhagen were subsequently cancelled as well.
   Over time, many efforts have been made to secure traffic on the route between Sarajevo and Copenhagen, including airlines like SAS that last operated the route during the S-18 schedule only, and Norwegian with flights during the S-19 schedule to Sarajevo from four airports in Scandinavia - Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda, Gothenburg and Oslo.
   During the early 2000s, SAS' low-cost adventure Snowflake operated on the route for one season only; in 2004 a new Bosnian airline, Arnoro planned to start operations from June 11 from Sarajevo via Banjaluka to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Oslo; in 2009, BH Airlines planned to open flights from Sarajevo to Copenhagen, Denmark, offering two weekly rotations, adding flights from May 13, 2009, to Gothenburg, Sweden.