NEWS FLASH
airBaltic will maintain flights between Riga and Ljubljana for only part of the upcoming winter season after modifying its scheduled this week. The carrier will run two weekly rotations between the two capitals until January 2, 2025, after which services will be suspended until March 3. The carrier had initially planned to maintain its Ljubljana operations throughout the entire winter season, which begins on October 27. airBaltic will receive 284.408 euros from the Slovenian government for its Ljubljana flights between April 24, 2024, and October 31, 2025, under the state’s policy to enhance air connectivity. Since launching operations on the route on April 24, up until the end of June, airBaltic handled 4.327 passengers on the route, for an average cabin load factor of 74.6%.
After Aegean, Luxair and British Airways here comes Air Baltic!
ReplyDeleteAlso EasyJet. But atleast LH Cartel is growing.
DeleteAt the moment, Q4 2024 and Q1 2025 scheduled capacity in Ljubljana is down on the previous year. Subject to change, of course.
Deletewow, that's just sad considering the airport nowhere near recovered last year either.
DeleteLufthansa is simply too good
Deletehahahaha
Delete...and people still think Fraport is doing a good job. How delusional are they?!
ReplyDeleteHow dare you say bad things about Fraport! They are the only reason we got so many airlines this year. Govt subsidies are insignificant compared to huge discounts Fraport gives! We are also first charter hub in the world. Pioneers in aviation!
DeleteTo be honest, Riga is not a huge loss for Ljubljana
DeleteThis is a loss of 14 or so total rotations, with a total capacity of 4000 or so seats. That's pretty big
DeleteWere the times like the Belgrade ones - in the middle of the night. I was at first excited for Air Baltic to come to the region but then saw the flight times and it made the idea of a few day break when you have to fly at 215am seem not as appealing. I hope though it succeeds and then maybe they will look in the future to go for more sociable times.
DeleteRiga timetable for LJU is pretty good doe
DeleteIt is quite obvious that Riga and Baltics in winter is not a top holiday destination for Slovenians. No surprises here. So cutting the frequencies is unfortunately the only logical step. Or is Fraport somehow expected to force people onto planes?
DeleteNo, they're expected to not have higher fuel costs than Heathrow, Schiphol and Frankfurt and higher service costs than many more popular airports
DeletePopular airports have economies of scale. Smaller airports will always have more expensive costs.
DeleteMost airlines don't refuel in Ljubljana anyway. They refuel at their base for the full rotation.
Anon 10.48. You don' t know nothing about airlines traffic. In winter times LJU need Scandinavian routes and AB is top solution for that. LOT not cover all Scandinavian coutries.
DeleteOuch!
ReplyDeleteWe want airBalitic in ZAG !! :/
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that as they already announced new routes from RIX/TLL/VNO for 2025. Analitičar still hopes they will cancel LJU and move to ZAG.
DeleteLol
DeleteIt will happen, eventually.
DeleteAnd SJJ as well, there's a big demand for both cheap travel destinations and good hubs for Scandinavia and airBaltic can provide both, given that there are still no Copenhagen flights from SJJ and Oslo is seasonal. airBaltic has connections to Bergen, Stavanger, Malmo and many more with ticket prices ranging from 30 to 50 euros per direction.
DeleteAdria come back, all is forgiven
ReplyDeleteAre you going to pay for its loses?
DeleteYou are paying much more now..
DeleteI am not. I pay less now than before.
DeleteI pay more in taxes now than before lol
DeleteThe fact that slovenian aviation numbers for Winter 2024 and Summer 2025 are declining while with literally EVERY other countries there is an upward trend is highly concerning
ReplyDeleteWe need national carrier, and we need it now
Granted, Belarus and Armenia also declined. But as opposed to them, there's no war or sanctions affecting Slovenia lolol
DeleteYou cannot have national carrier, you sold country to Germans erasing this will not make any change in that fact. You sold your previous company to bunch of german crooks.
DeleteSeems the booking numbers for that time weren't where they were supposed to be. I support smart decisions like that. Don't fly empty airplanes as you'll gain nothing as a company with doing that.
ReplyDeleteIs Air Baltic in a good financial shape? They issues commercial bonds with insane 14.5% rate with government being one of the largest investors. Does not sound good.
DeleteWell they're profitable. Something few airlines as small are
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