BNX

Banja Luka International Airport

ICAO LQBK44.9414°N 17.2975°E122 m / 400 ftLarge airport
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Banja Luka International Airport (IATA: BNX, ICAO: LQBK) is a large airport in Mahovljani, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It opened in 1976. It has one runway, 2,500 m (8,202 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 343 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1976–1976
1976
OpenedBanja Luka International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
16/34170° / 350° · LIT
LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
8K
6K
9K
28K
23K
22K
21K
36K
150K
44K
140K
343K
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Routes

12 destinations · 9 countries
Most destinationsRyanair 6Wizz Air 2Air Serbia 1Air Montenegro 1Aegean Airlines 1Air Cairo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BNX. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Banja Luka International Airport” (revision of 9 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers343K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,279of 3,974 · #276 Europe · #2 BALongest runway2,500 m8,202 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,332of 29,823 · =387 Europe · #2 BAElevation122 m400 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=28,977of 43,341 · =3,175 Europe · #13 BAAgeOpened 19762026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=7,364of 15,079 · =1,206 Europe · #3 BARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =1 BA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
APPAPP118.950
TWRTWR118.950