# Sarajevo International Airport (SJJ)

> Sarajevo, BA · IATA: SJJ · ICAO: LQSA · Large Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `SJJ` |
| ICAO | `LQSA` |
| City | Sarajevo |
| Country | BA |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 521 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 43.82460, 18.33150 |

## Description

No other airport in Europe carries history like this one: between 1992 and 1995, Sarajevo's airfield hosted the longest humanitarian airlift ever flown – some 160,000 tonnes of aid in nearly 13,000 sorties – while the besieged city smuggled roughly 30 tonnes of goods a day through the «Tunnel of Hope» dug beneath the runway. Today Sarajevo International Airport (IATA: SJJ, ICAO: LQSA) at Butmir, about 7 kilometres southwest of the centre, is Bosnia and Herzegovina's main airport; in 2025 it broke two million passengers for the first time (about 2.23 million), a record that ranked second in Europe for first-quarter growth yet stays modest regionally, with no home carrier since B&H Airlines folded. The cargo picture stays sober: only around 2,700 tonnes of air freight were handled in 2025, there are no scheduled freighter services worth mentioning, and the fog-prone valley at roughly 520 metres limits winter reliability. Forwarders therefore serve Bosnia almost entirely by road feeder via Vienna, Budapest, Istanbul or Zagreb – factoring in full customs clearance, as the country belongs to neither the EU nor its customs union. A recently expanded Terminal B lifts annual capacity to about two million passengers, with further modernisation, a new master plan and a multi-storey car park announced. Sea freight traditionally moves through the Croatian ports of Ploče and Rijeka, connected via Corridor Vc, whose A1 motorway is complete in sections. The wartime tunnel is now a museum, fittingly located right at the airport fence.

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