The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, introduced a one-year moratorium on the tax for departing passengers from all airports in the country, which will come into effect at the beginning of next year. The decision was adopted at the proposal of the Minister of Transport and Communications Edin Forto. This is another decision that authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina passed to increase the air traffic at the airports across the country.

“In this way, we encourage foreign airlines to increase their presence in BiH and open as many lines as possible from Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla and Mostar, all with the aim of increasing the number of passengers,” the minister said.

The change in regulations was adopted to increase the number of flights and more serious development of air transport in the country and is the result of a series of meetings held over the last few months between representatives of international airports, the Ministry of Communications and Transport of BiH, BHDCA and members of the Committee for Transport and Communications of the House of Representatives of BiH.

Forto earlier said that the tax is a direct income of the Civil Aviation Directorate which amounts to approximately 3.6 million marks (cca 1.8 million euro), which will be treated as an incentive for airports.

Last month, the Committee for the Expert Evaluation of Applications has disclosed that three out of five carriers that responded to a Sarajevo Canton Government public call for the launch of new routes from Sarajevo Airport in return for subsidies have met the specified conditions, .