Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport is set to see its busiest month in April since October 2020, with two carriers expected to restore operations while existing customers will increase frequencies. Overall, 183 scheduled flights are currently planned to operate (return service included), compared to 114 in March. If current schedules stick, April will see the return of both LOT Polish Airlines and Transavia to the Slovenian capital, although both are to resume operations towards the end of the month. Lufthansa will see the biggest increase in traffic, with the German carrier to add an additional seven weekly flights to its existing six weekly rotations from April 20. Air Serbia, Turkish Airlines, Air France and Aeroflot will all be adding an additional weekly service at varying points during the month, with the Serbian and Turkish carriers to maintain four weekly flights, Air France three, while Aeroflot will run two weekly rotations.
Overall, Lufthansa will be the busiest in terms of frequencies at Ljubljana Airport in April with a total of 75 operations (return service included). It will be followed by Air Serbia with 32, Turkish Airlines and Air France both with 28 flights, Aeroflot with twelve, Transavia with six and LOT with two flights during the month. Capacity-wise, Lufthansa will also offer the most seats - 6.750. Turkish Airlines will be the second largest carrier on the Slovenian market with 5.130 seats, followed by Air France with 2.560 seats. The most frequently used aircraft will be the CRJ900, on 40.5% of all flights, followed by the ATR72 on 17.3% of all operations and the Airbus A321 on 14.1% of all services during the month.
Airport operator Fraport Slovenija expects for traffic at Ljubljana Airport to pick up towards mid-summer. Furthermore, given favourable conditions for the revival of holiday tourism, the operator expects to see a greater volume of charter traffic this year in comparison to last summer. Meanwhile, Airports Council International (ACI) World has granted Ljubljana Airport its Airport Health Accreditation (AHA) to reward the exceptionally thorough sanitary measures put in place at the airport in order to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. After a complete evaluation of the implemented prevention and sanitary measures, ACI rewarded Ljubljana Airport‘s efforts based on: the processes of cleaning and disinfecting across the site, the implementation of social distancing markings, the strategic organisation of terminal space and the awareness communication campaigns for passengers and public Covid-19 prevention measures. Other airports in the former Yugoslavia to have so far received the accreditation include Belgrade, Sarajevo, Skopje, Zadar and Zagreb.
Finally some good news for Ljubljana
ReplyDeleteStill peanuts.
DeleteAt least something
Deleteand with "at least something" we will have to be happy in the future. Is this what we want?
DeleteIdeal would be if we still had Adria around but...
DeleteThe government's decision to drop plans for new national airline will slow recovery and we probably won't see LJU reach pre pandemic levels for some time to come.
ReplyDeleteLJU airport management should be celebrating. They were against national airline.
DeleteIt's not that they dropped plans, they simply can not use EU money for that. They clearly stated that they will have to find money somewhere else.
DeleteAt least we know that the passenger decline trend which started well before Covid will finally be overturned in April :D
ReplyDeleteInteresting how differently the airlines are positioned in terms of frequencies and in terms of capacity.
ReplyDeleteI just don't see things getting any better at LJU without either a national airline or a carrier basing a plane there. The new subsidies for foreign airlines does very little in attracting new ones. It's mostly to keep the ones flying and even that has not been fully sucsesfull.
ReplyDeleteLufthansa dominance.
ReplyDeleteHopefully things get better.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see some improvement.
ReplyDeleteImprovement compared to what? To airport Lesce?
Delete:)
DeleteAnd Portoroz.
Well compared to February and March. I know it's peanuts but at least we are no longer seeing further reductions.
DeleteLet's wait till April...I am quite sure that there will be more cancelation/reductions
DeleteI'm not so certain LOT and Transavia will come back as planned.
ReplyDeleteI think they will. They would have canceled the flights by now if they are not going to operate them in a month.
Delete@9.13 you havent been following aviation during the pandemic obv
Delete6 weekly with Transavia i dont think so
DeleteIt's not six weekly, it's six flights in total in April, which means 3 flights in each direction.
Deleteoops :)
DeleteToday just 1 flight at LJU. It can't get worse.
ReplyDeleteIt can. There were days with no flights at all.
DeleteTomorrow is better. Three flights in total (one sport charter) :D
DeleteStill waiting for LH resume Munich
ReplyDeleteYou will be waiting at least till winter 2021/2022.
DeleteAt best...
DeleteConsidering LH's strong position in LJU, I'm certain the route will be resumed.
DeleteLol..strong position in LJU :) because of two flights per day..real dominance!
DeleteAnyone know why Trade Air is operating a flights from LJU to Sochi tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteRussia v Slovenia football match
DeleteThanks
DeleteWhich airlines still have to return that haven't? (not including the ones in April)
ReplyDeleteeasyjet, Brussels Airlines, Swiss, British Airways, Finnair.
DeleteLet's see if all return.
DeleteAnd what happened with Iberia?
DeleteThey were supposed to launch flights last summer but covid happened.
DeleteI know but have they rescheduled?
DeleteNo. It's cancelled.
DeleteLet's hope they reschedule
DeleteIf the virus situation calms down, I'm sure there would be demand, as there has always been.
Delete@9.20 I believe Finnair has dropped plans to resume LJU unfortunately :(
DeleteHah and I remember Finnair being overly ambitious and scheduling more flights for this summer than last year.
DeleteAdria..
DeleteIberia dropped all plans for 2021.
DeleteShame :(
DeleteGood to see some positive developments. Things are slowly improving. Can't wait for the new terminal.
ReplyDeleteWell there we go, just a year after launching flights, LH is first in market share in LJU. Great success :D
ReplyDeleteIt would be no.1 even without covid.
DeleteNot necessarily. Easyjet would probably have more capacity.
Deleteit was also during the time when they had zero flights to LJU that they were first. Through JP. even more then!
DeleteWow that's really a success! They simply shift passengers from all the hubs to which LJU were connected in the past (VIE, MUC, ZRH, CPH, AMS, BRU, CDG) to FRA and now people are celebrating like that LJU is top priority for LH. If we will be happy with such "progress" then I am afraid where we will be in few years..
DeleteYes it seems Lufthansa has consolidated all Star airlines. That's why we have no Swiss and no Brussels Airlines.
DeleteGreat to see that some airlines will start operating to LJU again.
ReplyDeleteWait till they come...april is still far away
DeleteAnd the two airlines that are supposed to return are at the end of April so my money is it will be moved to mid May.
DeleteBut is there really a LOT in the summer schedule to operate the flights to Podgorica? Besides BOL and Olbia, which are probably charters.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get that LOT will fly Ljubljana-Podgorica?
DeletePodgorica LO8773 29.5. - 2.10. on saturdays
DeleteCrumbs.
ReplyDeleteIt's encouraging to see that Aeroflot is already operating LJU with A320 and increasing to two weekly.
ReplyDeleteYes upgraded from SSJ100.
DeleteHopefully more airlines will come soon
ReplyDeleteGood luck filling those seats next month.
ReplyDeleteLet Wizz set up a base!
ReplyDeleteNo one is stopping them
DeleteOf course they will set up a base. For 143 Slovenians living across EU and for 879 tourist who visits our country each year. Two strong arguments why Wizz should place a320 in LJU.
Deleteyou do know slovenia is second most visited exyu country?
DeleteTrue, but 90 % of those tourists come from nearby countries by car/bus/train. Similar as Croatia.
DeleteIn 2019 out of 4,7m around 30% of them came by plane
DeleteThere are a lot of tourist visits but you have to know that it's different if average tourist stay 1-2 nights (Slovenia) or 5+ nights as it's case in Croatia/Montenegro/Albania.
DeleteSoutheast airlines will help in summer.
ReplyDeleteLOL
DeleteEven if they launched they said they were considering having a base in MXB instead of LJU.
DeleteThey said either Ljubljana or Maribor.
DeleteI still don't see the point of the new terminal.
ReplyDeleteLong term investment. This won't last forever.
DeleteEven long term, I don't think there is pressing need for it unless the management changes their strategy.
DeleteOh you don't see the point ? Obviously, no one in this rural country sees the point in anything of a kind ..for instance Ljubljana bus & train station. Wow, a hell of a first impression for a visitor. Same as the airport’s obsolete terminal. And we would like to become a boutique destination , really ?? And offer what ? LCC carriers, LCC shops and sadly , an overall LCC lifestyle. It makes a man cry.
DeleteSo maybe a new terminal is just a small step towards a greater first impression, as you never can get a second chance...
Only charming people in Slovenia are from small Alpine valleys but no one will pay for them.
DeleteAnd yet slovenia is more visited than most of exyu countries ...
DeleteSpring is coming!
ReplyDeleteCan't come soon enough.
DeleteGood news for LJU
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's good news for LJU, but it's even better news for their competition (ZAG, TRS, VCE, VIE, BEG). With such low amount of flight passengers will have to find solution. And don't forget that those airports are getting their flights back much quicker than LJU.
DeleteLet's see how many flights will be cancelled.
ReplyDeleteAnd when will easyjet come back?
ReplyDeleteMay 29! But they have been delaying it all the time.
DeleteTo letališče je še skoz premajhno, nova steza need it, train connection to Lj. Etc.
ReplyDeleteThere is no need for new runway
Deletegot to say wow at the scenery on the pic :)
ReplyDeleteYeah empty airport
DeleteIn was talking about the surrounding. No need to be a wiseass ;)
DeleteMostly all new flights planned for April will be cancelled!
ReplyDeleteCovid is rampant in Slovenia, more than you can imagine and way more than the official data are reporting.
I don't think they will be cancelled but let's wait and see.
DeleteAnd not even a glimpse of Swiss which was given money for flying to LJU. Crazy!
ReplyDeleteswiss got money for nothing
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