As airlines begin to draft their schedules for June, they are further delaying the launch or completely cancelling new routes to cities across the former Yugoslavia, which were to commence between March and July, as a result of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. Ryanair, along with its subsidiaries, has now moved its remaining planned new services to the first week of July. "Ryanair now expects the recovery of passenger demand and pricing (to 2019 levels) will take at least two years, until summer 2022 at the earliest", it said, adding that it expects to report a net loss of over 100 million euros in the April to June quarter, with more losses to come.
MARCH AND APRIL
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Vienna - Zadar (Austrian) | MAR 29 | JUN 08 |
| Vienna - Dubrovnik | MAR 29 | JUL 02 |
| Vienna - Zadar (Lauda) | MAR 30 | JUL 01 |
| Paris - Dubrovnik | MAR 30 | JUN 15 |
| London Luton - Ljubljana | MAR 30 | CANCELLED |
| Poznan - Podgorica | MAR 30 | JUL 02 |
| Gdansk - Zadar | MAR 31 | CANCELLED |
| Kraljevo - Thessaloniki | MAR 31 | JUN 02 |
| Stockholm - Tivat | APR 01 | JUN 17 |
| Dublin - Podgorica | APR 02 | JUL 02 |
| Vienna - Banja Luka | APR 03 | JUL 03 |
| Hahn - Rijeka | APR 04 | JUL 04 |
| Paris Orly - Pula | APR 04 | JUN 06 |
| Nantes - Dubrovnik | APR 11 | JUN 06 |
| Athens - Split | APR 19 | JUL 08 |
| Brussels - Pula | APR 25 | JUN 20 |
| London Luton - Pula | APR 28 | MAY 26 |
| Kiev - Ljubljana | APR 30 | JUN 04 |
The fate of new routes set to be launched by the Lufthansa Group this summer, including Austrian’s Vienna - Zadar, Eurowings’ Stuttgart to Belgrade and Swiss’ Geneva to Dubrovnik service will be known this week, as it plans to load its June timetable. The airline group will be scheduling flights on a month-by-month basis. A total of eighty aircraft from the Group’s fleet will be reactivated with the June timetable. This means that a total of 106 destinations can be served in the coming month. From June 1, 160 aircraft will be in service with the Group's passenger airlines. “The Lufthansa Group's airlines are thus responding to the growing interest of customers in air travel, following the gradual easing of restrictions and limitations in the German federal states and entry regulations of other countries in Europe”, the company noted.
MAY
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Zagreb - Sofia | MAY 01 | CANCELLED |
| Wroclaw - Zadar | MAY 01 | CANCELLED |
| Frankfurt - Tivat | MAY 01 | JUN 30 |
| Paris - Podgorica | MAY 01 | JUN 05 |
| Vilnius - Dubrovnik | MAY 02 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Riga | MAY 03 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Cork | MAY 03 | CANCELLED |
| Zagreb - Podgorica | MAY 03 | CANCELLED |
| Beuvais - Zadar | MAY 06 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Kaunas | MAY 06 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Bremen | MAY 07 | CANCELLED |
| Vilnius - Rijeka | MAY 07 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Liverpool | MAY 10 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Maastricht | MAY 11 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Aarhus | MAY 15 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Hamburg | MAY 15 | CANCELLED |
| Zadar - Toulouse | MAY 16 | CANCELLED |
| Doha - Dubrovnik | MAY 18 | CANCELLED |
| Manchester - Tivat | MAY 21 | JUN 18 |
| London Stansted - Tivat | MAY 21 | JUN 18 |
| Stuttgart - Belgrade | MAY 21 | JUN 02 |
| Izmir - Skopje | MAY 23 | CANCELLED |
| Tel Aviv - Ljubljana | MAY 23 | JUN 02 |
| London Stansted - Zadar | MAY 24 | JUN 17 |
| Manchester - Zadar | MAY 24 | JUN 17 |
| Qassim - Sarajevo | MAY 25 | JUN 03 |
| Monastir - Zagreb | MAY 27 | JUN 24 |
| Budapest - Belgrade | MAY 27 | JUN 01 |
| Rzeszow - Zadar | MAY 28 | JUN 06 |
| Malmo - Split | MAY 30 | CANCELLED |
Air Serbia is the latest to cancel its planned new services, cutting six destinations which were to be inaugurated from Belgrade next month. Although the airline still has flights between Kraljevo and Thessaloniki set to launch as early as next week, the airport in Kraljevo isn’t expected to open for another month. “We will endeavour to operate as many scheduled flights as possible. Our team is carefully following the ongoing decisions of competent authorities”, the company said. LOT Polish Airlines, which also has a number of new services planned for the region, is expected to address its schedule within the next week, with most new routes expected to be cancelled.
JUNE AND JULY
| Route | Original date | New date |
|---|---|---|
| Kiev - Zagreb | JUN 02 | JUL 21 |
| Belgrade - Amman | JUN 01 | CANCELLED |
| Belgrade - Geneva | JUN 01 | CANCELLED |
| Belgrade - Chisinau | JUN 01 | CANCELLED |
| Belgrade - Lviv | JUN 01 | CANCELLED |
| Belgrade - Rostov-on-Don | JUN 02 | CANCELLED |
| Brussels - Ohrid | JUN 06 | JUN 13 |
| Belgrade - Florence | JUN 07 | CANCELLED |
| Kuwait City - Sarajevo | JUN 11 | CANCELLED |
| Tel Aviv - Skopje | JUN 11 | CANCELLED |
| Podgorica - Lisbon | JUN 22 | JUL 06 |
| Vienna - Podgorica | JUL 03 | JUL 20 |
| London Heathrow - Podgorica | JUL 04 | CANCELLED |
I;m waiting to see whather a single new route will be launched.
ReplyDeleteSad :( this would have been a fantastic year for most airports.
ReplyDeleteAny idea when KLM may resume Zagreb? They just published their June schedule but unfortunately no ZAG yet.
ReplyDeleteSo what? You have Croatia airlines flight if you want to fly to Amsterdam.
DeleteWell Croatia Airlines isn't flying to Amsterdam either!
DeleteI think OU should restart AMS, it's one of their top performing routes. KL kind of struggled in ZAG and I doubt they will bring it back right away. They just added flights to key cities in the region.
DeleteSummer is cancelled
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that JU would launch new routes this summer, but corona, I understand
ReplyDeleteAs soon as the sh*t corona started, everybody started asking for a refund.
DeleteWill Air Serbia considered the cancelled routes in the future?
ReplyDeleteI assume so. But even if things settle, I don't expect any new routes next year.
DeleteGeneva, Rostov-on-Don and Florence might be considered next year.
DeleteNice to see SKP see minimal cancellations or delays especially by Wizz. It really is a stable market.
ReplyDeletePretty much all new routes planned for SKP have been cancelled.
DeleteUnfortunately cuts are coming to Wizz's Skopje network and elsewhere.
DeleteWizz Air is not reducing SKP, if that was the case those cuts would already be in the system. From what I can see they will keep on maintaining the same schedule as initially planned.
DeleteYou are also detached from reality. Many routes will be reduced or cancelled in the next few months.
Delete"Wizz Air is not reducing SKP, if that was the case those cuts would already be in the system."
DeleteI don't know if you have noticed, but they are also selling tickets for flights from next week and the airport is definitely not opening next week.
SKP positions itself as the overperformer in the region. Look at the growth rates of the past years! Will stay like this, just the reduction will be minimal.
DeleteI might not know everything but one thing I do know is that we have been hearing this and that about SKP, doomsday scenarios all around while in the end SKP only kept on growing. Those are facts. Sorry.
DeleteSKP's biggest advantage is that it has no transfers so its passengers are not counted twice. Local demand is stable and economy won't collapse from corona. All this is making Wizz Air extremely confident in its performance here.
DeleteAnd the staff that got fired from the SKP base is for what? Nothing?
Deletei expect the demand in SKP to be stable as it literally relies only on gasto and not on turist/busines.
Delete+10000000000 Last Anon, thta's what people on here don't understand about SKP. It also helps that country got richer in recent years so people can fly more often especially thanks to Wizz low fares
DeleteLow fares lol
DeleteLet's wait and see. I don't think things will be as rosy as some suggest, not just for Macedonia but for any market really.
Deletelets be honest it all depends on Wizz's overall situation, their SKP routes are/were succesful beyond our (and their) expectations but Macedonia like the whole region are at the end of the chain ... and we will always "suffer" for those at the top
Deletetwo examples: VIE got the two A321 from SKP even though nobody (Wizz,Lauda,Level) is making money in VIE at the moment but it helps reducing their cost(losses). Absurd but plausible
another one: if they get access to Gatwick that will be ther main focus after the crisis... and we will just have to wait
W6 already are slowly sneaking into LGW and trying to get a slice of the sweet cake. That said, this is U2 territory and will be difficult.
DeleteTheir latest LGW addition is SOF next month as it seems LTN is getting more exploited. It might be possible to have a LGW-SKP addition anytime soon.
SKP needs more connections to London. There are many Macedonians with Bulgarian citizenship living in UK.
What do you mean that they got two A321 from SKP?
DeleteHow many is many Anon 12:43? Can they fill a plane daily?
DeleteVaradi announced that they will take at least one aircraft from every single base. It means that cuts are about the come. Expectedly, Wizz is waiting to see how will bookings go on and what will happen with corona in operating countries, so they are waiting for the last moment to announce what routes will be kept.
DeleteZagreb Airport looks soo nice :)
ReplyDeleteThere was that slight to reasonable chance Split could have taken top spot from Zagreb this year. Will be years before they get close again:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.split-airport.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160&Itemid=115&lang=en
This was supposed to be SPU's year. Makes you wonder when the tourist season will resume.
DeleteShame really. Just 6 passengers in April :( This was supposed to be the first full year of the shiny new terminal.
DeleteSo, all planed new Air Serbia flights canceled. Government said they will invest more in Air Serbia to take bigger part of market and now company will cancel all new routes?
ReplyDeleteAre you for real? Do you see what's happening in the world? Apart from entry for foreigners banned into Serbia, including transfers, Serbian citizens can not enter any EU country. Russia is in complete lockdown and the situation is deteriorating there (Aeroflot will begin resuming international flights in July). So where do you expect Air Serbia to launch new routes to? Government will invest in the airline but they certainly won't be launching new routes during the coronacrisis. Who do you expect will fly. Some people here are so detached from reality.
Delete@9.19 I really wonder if you are just trolling or actually think Air Serbia should launch flights to a city like FLORENCE, ITALY in 2 weeks. I also wonder do you think there are any passengers that would show up to that flight.
DeleteThe government said they will invest once corona is gone. JU is still going to keep most routes it introduced the previous year. They are only suspending flights introduced this year plus HEL.
DeleteWhy are the transfers banned in Serbia?
DeleteIgnore the troll
DeleteThey are not going to be banned after June 1st.
Delete99% of the routes in these tables which still haven't been cancelled won't be launched.
ReplyDeleteCroatia is heavily hit this summer.
ReplyDeleteSo many cancelled flights.
Bleak
ReplyDeleteAny indication of when Nis might open?
ReplyDeleteThey said in a month.
DeleteKiev - Ljubljana with Windrose from June 4th 2020?
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding?
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3022952-three-airlines-plan-to-resume-flights-from-ukraine.html
I have serious doubts for Zagreb in July too.
it looks like the only thing that will be flying are flag carriers
ReplyDeleteExpect further cuts when airlines realize that demand has collapsed due to mass unemployment in the EU.
ReplyDeleteSeems like LO isn't slowing down. I see they revised their flights to BEG which start on 01.06 (all are zeroed out before that) and from then they have 9 weekly flights. They changed their schedule so on Saturdays they have no flights but for example on Sundays and Mondays they have two.
ReplyDeleteThat's very ambitious of them.
LOT is grounded until May 30. I fear those flights from June 1 are simply automatically moved. I'm not sure they will actually start.
DeleteDon't know, their BEG and ZAG schedules were actually modified so I think they will stay as is from 01.06. I think LO wants to make the most of it and to attack OS.
DeleteKuwait Airways cancelling Sarajevo is good news for FlyBosnia.
ReplyDeleteLack of QR flights will help them too, at least for their Kuwait City flights.
DeleteThose of you worried passengers will not fly this summer should see thic picture from United Airlines flight from New York to San Francisco (6 hours!) from Saturday 9 May, just two days ago. Proof people will fly:
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source: CNN
...and how will the catering be served under masks?
DeleteNot served. It's a great way for airlines to cut catering (ie costs) under the pretense of passenger safety. God forbid there is a loss of oxygen/cabin decompression. By the time you get your mask off to put another on you might be dead.
DeleteNo, you won't be dead. Even before covid airline regulations required parents to put on oxygen mask before helping one (or 2-3 kids you might have around) put them on and that is more than enough time before kids pass out let alone die.
DeletePoint of that CNN photo is that airlines (in this case UA but also Wizz etc) won't even commit to blocking middle seat when passengers come back in large numbers, and they are starting to come back as countries (and states in the US) push for easing restrictions and reopening of economy. Airlines are desperate for revenue and won't block it unless forced by some regulation/law.
Kazakhstan has already officially given up on the middle seat idea.
DeleteI agree with Anon 19.25, the time it takes you will be dead by the time you put your own oxygen mask. Someone has really not thought this through. Hopefully sanity is restored and life can go back to normal.
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