Osijek International Airport in Croatia serves a catchment area of 1.7 million passengers within a 150 km radius. The airport was reconstructed in 2001 and has excellent infrastructure for both passenger and cargo transport. It has a 1500 square meter passenger terminal that can handle up to 150,000 passengers annually and a 2400 square meter cargo terminal. The airport aims to attract passengers from its central location between major cities like Zagreb, Budapest, Belgrade, and Sarajevo as well as develop tourism in the region around Osijek.

1. OSIJEK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
CROATIA
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2. CONTENTS
 Introduction of Osijek International Airport
 Geographic position
 Catchment area
 Passenger terminal and handling
 Infrastructural advantages
 Cargo terminal
 Cargo handling
 Cargo experience
 Advantages for cargo traffic
 City of Osijek
 Touristic potential
 Routes of interest
 Summary
 Technical characteristics
 Contacts
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3. Introduction of Osijek International Airport
Established in 1980 and completely
reconstructed in 2001
 Strategic location of eastern Croatia
 Air transportation, handling of aircrafts,
passengers, baggage and goods are core
business of the airport
Business, tourism and visiting friends
and family are developing markets in the
area airport competition
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4. Excellent geographic position:
Croatia as an EU member
Situated on state road D2
Osijek – Vukovar
 20 min. from Osijek city centre
and less than 45 min. from south
of Hungary, north of Bosnia &
Herzegovina and west of Serbia
Central position between 4 capital
cities Zagreb, Budapest, Belgrade,
and Sarajevo (2-3 hours drive time)
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5. Catchment area
 Catchment area includes area to 150 km around Osijek Airport or within 2
hours of car drive
 Total passenger potential in primary area is 1,7 mil citizens
 Primary catchment area of Osijek Airport encompasses 4 countries
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6. Passenger terminal and handling
 Passenger Terminal area – 1500 m²
 Capacity of 200-400 pax per hour,
150 000 per year
 Easy navigation for passengers
 Due to EU regulations and Schengen
Agreement passenger terminal is
adapted to EU standards
 Terminal facilities - store, caffe bar and
rent a car (Hertz, Uni-rent)
Pax handling
 DCS, possible manual check-in
 Trained and licensed staff - ticketing,
excess baggage services, PRM, welcome
desk
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7. Infrastructural advantages
 Multimodal transport - possibility for air, river, railway and road transport
 River ports Osijek and Vukovar on the rivers Drava and Danube
The most important routes:
CORRIDOR X
Highway and railway connection ZG – BG
CORRIDOR Vc
Road connecting the Baltic with Adriatic

8. Cargo terminal
 Cargo Terminal area – 2400 m²; bonded custom warehouse, separated in 3 parts
with 567 m² space for storage on 4 to 5 levels
 The whole warehouse is currently rented for 5 years to the biggest Croatian logistic
company
 Truck disposition
 Direct access to the apron for trucks and coolers
 Open space area around the airport with possibility for making facilities for
supporting industries
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9. Cargo handling
 Osijek Airport is a Handling Agent
 The Airport provides handling services based on
individual approach to every customer
 Handling of cargo aircraft; up to fire CAT VII
 Air Traffic coordination (flight announcement,
approval and handling organization)
 Operations (Handling management - handling
control, movement messages, coordination with
forwarder, sanitary and veterinarian inspection,
loading management, service charging; crew
management - transportation, accommodation)
 Dedicated handling areas with equipment;
packing, setting pallets and containerization
 Security – RTGs for goods screening
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10. Experience in cargo handling
→ Cooperation with cargo companies
“Atlas Air”, “Cargolux” and “Air Tomisko”
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 FIORITAL – continuing air cargo
operations by IL-76 loaded with 50
tones of fresh fish from Tanzania
destined for the European market;
120 operations in 2005.
 PRAMAC – generators for American
Army in Baghdad
 NORWEGIAN CHURCH AID –
humanitarian aid for Sudan collected
in Norway, Holland,
UK and Gibraltar
 NOVI AGRAR– B747 cargo live stock
import

11. Advantages of Osijek Airport for cargo traffic
 Low cost airport for cargo traffic (lighting, aircraft handling, gpu per hour,
loader up to 7 or 18 ton per hour and parking fees are included in landing
fee)
 Good location (1.8 million passengers in gravity area; close to Budapest,
Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sarajevo and Zagreb)
 EU membership
 Great traffic connections (multimodal)
 No congestion
 No time slots
 Operative 24/7
 Short ground time
 Easy access of trucks to the apron
 Experience in cargo
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12. City of Osijek
 4th largest city in Croatia
 Population of 108 048 (2011)
 Economic and cultural centre of
the eastern Croatian region
of Slavonia
 Administrative centre of Osijek-
Baranja County
 Popular destination for
continental tourism
 There are many emigrants and
ethno travelers, originally from
this area, in Europe, especially
Germany (367 000 Croats in
Germany – 72 986 in Baden
Wurttemberg and 50 594 in
Bavaria)
 Load factor 70-80% on flights for
Cologne and Frankfurt during
2008 -2011
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13. Touristic potential of Osijek
 Beautiful nature
 Cultural and historical centre
 Tvrđa – the 18th century Baroque citadel
with many remains from Romans and
Otoman empire
 Neo-Gothic church of St. Petar and Paul
 Many historical monuments like Votive
statue of the Holy Trinity
 European Avenue – the longest street in
south-east Europe with secession
buildings
 “Green city” – many parks and green areas
 Promenade along river Drava
 Park of nature Kopački rit (the most
preserved wetland in Europe with more
than 30 000 visitors per year)
 Antiques fair, carriage rides
 Wide range of accommodation capacities
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14. Gastronomy
 Domestic and delicious food
 Fish stew, meat stew
(čobanac), carp in jaw -
similarity with Hungarian
cuisine
 Quality and well known wines
 Natural eco products
Active tourism and sport
 Hunting and fishing activities
 Ornithology ( 295 species of
birds in Kopački Rit)
 Bicycling – city of Osijek has
more than 38 km of bicycle
paths
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15. Routes of interest
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Top 20 European destinations markets for the Osijek airport primary catchment area by
InterVISTAS analysis:

16. This study presents market size data for the full 2012.
The data reflects travel agency tickets sales as reported by the ARC and BSP ticket
clearing houses. Ticket sales data is then adjusted to reflect airline direct sales.
InterVISTAS applied further calibration and expert judgment based on additional
information developed from numerous other market studies , with respect to the
BSP/ARC distribution shares for specific carriers, regions and origin/destinations.
The complete analyses and methodology can be found in InterVISTAS Business
development study which is made for Osijek Airport. Passenger airport market
share analysis process is described on page 20.
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17. Summary
Osijek Airport primary catchment area represents 1.7 million passenger trips in 2012.
1.4 million (84%) are destinated to Europe and 267 000 are destinated outside of
Europe.
Over 99.9% of primary catchment passengers must drive by car to gain access to a
nearby airport for air travel.
 With the current air services , residents of and visitors to Osijek primary catchment
use Budapest as their first choice. Over 59% of European air travel and 54% of Extra-
European air travel is via Budapest
 As the closest airport to Osijek, Belgrade also captures a considerable portion of the
primary catchment market with the 15% and 13% of European and Extra-European
travel
 Zagreb is the second choice for primary catchment travel with 22% of European
market share and 28% of Extra-European market share
 Over 78% of traffic leaks outside of Croatia
The secondary catchment consist of 3 million passenger trips in 2012.
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18. Table summarizes O&D passengers by airport and traffic share and Catchment areas
for 2012
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19. Technical characteristics
IATA code: OSI
ICAO code: LDOS
ICAO airport class: 4D
ARP coordinates: 452745,60 N 0184836,56 E
Firefighting category: CAT IV, on request up to CAT VII
Runway characteristics: Length: 2500m
Width: 45m
Orientation: 111 / 291 (11/29)
Made of asphalt (2500 m)
Strength: PCN 70 F/A/W/T
Fuel/oil types: JP-1, AVGAS 100LL
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20. Contacts
OSIJEK AIRPORT
Vukovarska 67, Klisa
31000 Osijek
CROATIA
www.osijek-airport.hr
Domagoj Marinić,
General Manager
+385 31 514 405
domagoj.marinic@osijek-airport.hr
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21. Thank you for your attention!
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