Flights
The airport is currently a focus city for B&H Airlines, which operates four-times weekly flights to Zürich.
Over the years, the airport has had flights connecting Banja Luka to Athens, Belgrade, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Salzburg, Tivat and Vienna, partly thanks to Air Srpska which was an airline based at the airport.
Since Air Srpska stopped operations, the Government of Republika Srpska has tried to attract new airlines to fly to Banja Luka through various subsidies. Subsidised flights included:
- Jat Airways flights to Belgrade between November 2007 and December 2009, operated with ATR 72
- Austrojet flights to Salzburg and Tivat between July and December 2008, operated 3 times a week with Dash 8-100
- Adria Airways flights to Ljubljana between July 2010 and November 2011, operated 4 times a week with CRJ 200
Austrian Airlines and Montenegro Airlines served Banja Luka during the late 1990s and early 2000s from their respective bases in Vienna and Tivat.
On 15 December 2010, to celebrate the abolition of visa requirements for Bosnian citizens traveling to the Schengen Area countries, a symbolic charter flight was organised from Banja Luka to Brussels.
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