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Background


Prishtina International Airport is the only Airport in the Republic of Kosovo. It commenced with its functioning since year 1965.  Initially, its destination was to serve as military airport, whilst later on it was in conformity to civilian needs, too.

After the war in Kosovo, 1999, up to the year 2003, the international multinational force, KFOR, managed Prishtina International Airport whereas after 2003 it has gained a status of the civilian airport.
After transfer from military to civilian authorities, Airport was come under the supervision by the state of Iceland, a country that last year, 2008, has certified this Airport for accomplishment of the safety conditions and criteria.

During this period, Company has invested, in different projects, over 50 million euro, in order to convert it to a safe Airport for operations of biggest international airliners and to modernize it in order to keep step with the time and other Airports in the region.

Projects, which were under investment and that are worthy to emphasize out are as follows: resurfacing of the runway in a value of 16 million euro, runway lighting with its cost of 6 million euro, perimeter fence and road in an amount of over1 million euros, and many other smaller projects.