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Pristina International Airport / Slatina Air Base 42°34′22″N 021°02′09″E / 42.57278°N 21.03583°E / 42.57278; 21.03583 ( Pristina International Domestic airports
The airport was originally built as Slatina Air Base, containing the second-largest military underground hangar complex in Yugoslavia. [citation needed]From 12 to 26 June 1999, there was a brief but tense stand-off between NATO and the Russian Kosovo Force in which Russian troops possessed the airport.
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The local and national government plans to offer Gjakova Airport for operation under a public-private partnership with the aim of turning it into a civilian and commercial airport. [2] Pristina International Airport is located southwest of Pristina. It is Kosovo's only international airport, the only port of entry for air travelers to Kosovo.
The airport was audited by the Civil aviation authority of Kosovo in 2016, and the report concluded that the airport had the necessary infrastructure to serve commercial flights. [ 2 ] In 2018 the Kosovo Government transferred the Gjakova Airport to the Kosovo Ministry Defense for the purpose of it being used by the Kosovo Security Force.
The Slatina air base was a strategically important base which NATO had planned to use for airlifting of much of their military units in support of the UNSF Resolution 1244. Control over the airport was to be established on 12 June 1999 though on that first night the air base was seized by a battalion of Russian paratroopers. [2]
A new but short-lived era began for the airport after the Kosovo War, having been taken charge of by NATO and modified as a military airport through KFOR. The airport returned to its own control in 2000, with just 45 employees in total. Following damage during the war, it took 2 years and €50 million to help it start operating properly again.
Hub airport(s) Commenced operations Notes Kosova Airlines: KOS Pristina International Airport: 2003 no fleet since 2006, but still flying with German low cost airlines: Air Prishtina: ST Pristina International Airport: 1981 My Wings: C3 TDR MY WINGS (operatred by Trade Air) Pristina International Airport: 2020