NEWS FLASH
Swiss International Air Lines will increase frequencies from its Zurich hub to both Sarajevo and Ljubljana next summer. The airline will maintain between six and nine weekly rotations to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital, up from between five and seven during the summer of this year. The carrier will operate six weekly flights in April, May, June, September and October, up from five, while nine weekly rotations will be operated during peak season travel in July and August, up from seven weekly. In Ljubljana, Swiss is increasing frequencies to twelve weekly. Last summer it operated eleven weekly rotations, with exception to July and August when they ran twelve times per week. Changes remain possible.
Great! How come Swiss has 14 fpw during winter and only 12 fpw during summer in Ljubljana?
ReplyDeleteThey don't have the capacity for more, this summer season Ljubljana will see:
Delete-E190 Helvetic
-E195 Helvetic
-E290 Helvetic
-E295 Helvetic
-A223 AirBaltic
-A221 Swiss
-A223 Swiss
-A320 Swiss
-A32N Swiss
-A321 Swiss
-A321Neo Swiss
So they are throwing practically anything that they can at LJU
In winter when they have less routes, they can easily just use the best aircraft for the route
Makes sense, thanks! Is that data easily accessible online? Where can I look it up?
DeleteSwiss is pretty good at using the same aircraft as is listed when booking tickets, so you can check it out on their website
Delete3 of the 12 will be A320 flights as of now. But this changing flight schedule and reducing from current 14 to down 12 or 11, is not really "user friendly".
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine just flew with OS and LX to CAI and back. On the way there OS actually gave them a sandwich and drinks, on the way back LX just handed them a glass of water (4 hour flight).
ReplyDeleteEven Lufthansa serves meals on flights longer than three hours. Seems like Swiss has the worst onboard product from the three. It's funny since LX is the second most profitable division within Lufthansa Group.
The buying power of Swiss citizens gives companies in Switzerland good opportunities for profit. However, it must also be said that the LH Group is reporting more profit at Swiss in order to benefit from the more favorable tax environment in Switzerland. Internal workloads from the parent company in Frankfurt are reduced or not charged to Swiss at all.
DeleteI flew FRACAI and there was a full meal service on Lufthansa. It was quite nice.
DeleteLjubljana keeps winning?
ReplyDeleteBravo Fraport!
DeleteWhat? One extra weekly flight so far?
DeleteYou've been living under a rock 11:38.
DeleteCorrect me if I'm missing any, but
DeleteIberia equipment increase from CRJ1000 to A320
TK adding 4 weekly flights in summer
BA adding 2 weekly flights in summer
LX adding 1 weekly flight during summer
EW adding 3 weekly flights to DUS year round
U2 going daily during summer
W6 adding 1 weekly to SKP
KLM adding 7 weekly flights year round
Only loss so far being 1 less weekly flight by Finnair
and LOT from 9pw to 11pw ...
DeleteSo around 20 more flights per week than last summer.
DeleteIberia equipment increase from CRJ1000 to A320
DeleteTK adding 4 weekly flights in summer
BA adding 2 weekly flights in summer
LX adding 1 weekly flight during summer
EW adding 3 weekly flights to DUS year round
U2 going daily during summer
W6 adding 1 weekly to SKP
KLM adding 7 weekly flights year round
LOT adding 2 weekly flights
Downgrades:
AirMontenegro 2x to TIV instead of 4x
AirMontenegro 2x to TGD instead of 3x
LH currently has 12 flights to MUC instead of 14
LH currently has CRJ900 booked for FRA flights instead of CRJ1000
AirFrance only has 1 month of 2 daily flights to CDG
ATH is booked on a A320 instead of A32N
Only loss so far being 1 less weekly flight by Finnair
Without the new KLM flights, the information about the LJU summer timetable would be quite depressing.
ReplyDeleteWell for now LOT will have more than last year, also swiss, wizz, turkish …
DeleteYes, BA too, and new Eurowing flights... On the other hand, Air Montenegro is reducing flights to Tivat. Let's wait and see what happens with the capacities of LH, Air Serbia, etc. Well, it's not depressing, but it's not very exciting either.
DeleteWizz will have more? Did they increase Skopje?
DeleteAirMontenegro is reducing both Tivat and Podgorica. From 6 weekly last year to 4 weekly this year
DeleteWeren’t they switching from podgorica to tivat in summer? Now they will have both.
DeleteYes skopje will be 4pw
No they operated both this year.
DeleteBosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
ReplyDeleteI know for a fact people were complaining about Adria's fare prices, which (at least towards the end) were quite reasonable. Are the same people actually flying with LH, LX, KL, BA, ... Every time I check, their fare prices are 300€+. I don't understand why people are so excited by the fact that LJU is being served by national carriers who are charging a premium for their services (for example, flying out of VCE is almost every time cheaper than LJU).
ReplyDeleteYou are free to come up with a free market solution on how to make flights out of LJU cheaper. The only solutions we read here is that Slovenian government should subsidize flights to holiday destination either in the form of a national carrier or in the form of giving special tax cuts to a certain private airline, which is just insane.
DeleteSo you basically agree that the current solution is the best one?
DeleteWhen you did your cost analysis of a national carrier, did you also take into account taxes paid by the company and employees? How about better connectivity? It still hasn't recovered to Adria levels. As a frequent flyer (luckily I have access to ID90 tickets), it's very inconvenient to have one or two LH flights to FRA/MUC.
And as far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong), the government is subsidizing (some) of the the carriers. Unfortunately, it doesn't to reflect positively on fare prices.
I do not know what the best solution is as there is no one single perfect solution. People have different travel habits and preferences, so your ideal solution might not be the best for someone else. We also live in capitalism and airlines will charge the highest possible price that they can in order to turn the highest possible profit. LJU is having a reality check and you cannot compare the situation today with the times that are long gone.
DeleteAbsolutely. However, I do believe national carriers are taking advantage of the situation in LJU in terms of high fares. They saw there was no real demand from LCC, so they decided to enter the market with aa high fares as possible. If it wouldn't pan out, they would just pull out, since Slovenia is a tiny market. We really have no leverage to set thr conditions.
DeleteThat is why I still think national carrier would have been a better choice. At least the money would have gone into our budget.
Anon 17.48.you are in different position with ID90. Privilage style can say after my experiance from Muc 10days ago.
DeleteThis is actually very bad news for LJU. It means that early morning departure to ZRH is gone.
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