Low cost carriers Ryanair, Pegasus Airlines and AJet, along with Croatia Airlines are adding the most seats on flights during the first quarter of the year in the former Yugoslav markets when compared to 2024. Air Serbia remains the largest carrier with over 1.1 million seats during the three-month period. Ryanair’s growth comes as a result of its expanded operations in Croatia, as well as services from Sarajevo, which did not operate during the first quarter of 2024. The airline has added an extra 157.714 seats on the market compared to Q1 of last year for a 36.9% increase. Pegasus Airlines is adding 89.688 seats and AJet 42.460.
Croatia Airlines will surpass its pre-Covid capacity levels during the first quarter of the year, with a total of 589.189 seats on the market, an improvement of 6.3% on last year, or an extra 35.000 seats. It has added the most capacity on its Frankfurt service during Q1, with over 7.000 additional seats compared to last year. The airline recently took delivery of its second Airbus A220-300 aircraft, with both jets of the same type to be deployed on flights as of tomorrow. The airline will gradually begin retiring A320-family aircraft as another six A220s are delivered this year.
Fastest growing airlines in EX-YU in Q1 2025
Air Serbia remains the largest carrier in the region, both by the number of available seats and the number of operated flights. Its capacity on the market stands at 1.153.612, representing an additional 17.436 seats on the same period last year. It is the only carrier, alongside Wizz Air, to have over a million seats in the former Yugoslavia during the first quarter. However, the low cost carrier has 6% fewer seats than it did the previous Q1, removing 72.261 of them from the market as it continues to deal with the fallout of engine inspections on its Airbus A320neo family aircraft.
Largest airlines in EX-YU in Q1 2025
Bravo Air Serbia!
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DeleteAir Serbia is one of only European Country that flys to Russia without the EU sanctions
DeleteGood to see OU finally recovering
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DeleteIt took just 5 years...
DeleteHopefully finances will recover too
DeleteAnd load factor
DeleteAnd of course the most capacity OU has added is to none other than FRA!
DeleteJasmin will make a beast of a Croatia Airlines!
DeleteLol
DeleteHasn't he been CEO for 6 years or so?
DeleteOU provides more in added value than it receives in subsidies. Elementary economics.
DeleteDoes that make subsidies legal?
DeleteYes, under the EU law they are. Nevertheless, my point is elementary economics, so please, comment that.
DeleteI must have access to some old EU laws where it still says it's illegal.
DeleteYou obviously do.
Delete@12.04
DeleteAnd how is the weather in Buzin today? Oh, sorry, I forgot you "connected" Christmas, New Year, school winter holidays....Such hard working people as you in Buzin deserve nothing less, my mistake to ask about the weather
"under the EU law they are"
DeleteToo bad no one told Adria, Malev and others.
1754, you need to educate yourself.
DeleteIf unlimited government subisidies are 100% legal in the EU why would goverment-owned EU airlines look for silly ways to raise capital such as issuing 14.5% bonds or looking for taking airline private by merging it with state-owned airports while retaining control of the entity?
Delete2056, who sair unlimited? What 14,5% bonds, what mergers?
DeleteLooks like you haven't head of Air Baltic (example1) or Croatia Airlines (example 2). Educate yourself.
DeleteWhen will Wizz Air's constant decline end?
ReplyDelete2026
DeleteThey are not declining in reality, aircraft's are getting delivered and still they have around 30 on the ground sitting. Once their entire fleet is in the air expect from W6 90 to 100 million pax per year.
DeleteWell their capacity growth last year was something like 3%. That's catastrophic for an LCC.
DeleteNeither aircraft's, nor aircrafts, but aircraft.
DeleteYes Aircraft is both plural and singular. Will be interesting to see growth of 40 million pax in single year.
DeleteWhy would that be interesting? In my opinion, interesting is used by the people who have no opinion but feel a need to have one.
DeleteTurkish carriers are killing it
ReplyDeleteAs usual
DeleteWith Pegasus and Ajet doing the same thing, market will get oversaturated.
DeleteTurkish market is huge. To the non EU ex-Yu states Turks don't need a visa. Also people from ex-Yu love travelling to Turkey so I don't think there is an issue of oversaturating the market.
DeleteOh and not to mention that both airlines offer transfer options.
DeleteLooks as if Ryanair will dominate this year too
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering when they will announce new routes from Sarajevo for which they will get subsidies?
DeleteProbably this month
DeleteI think the delay in the announcement may have something to do with change in management at SJJ.
DeleteI hope they don't reconsider.
DeleteThey won't. They have already signed the contract.
DeleteAs if signing something has ever stopped them.
DeleteThey better hurry up with the announcment
DeleteMy guess is the new routes will launch in June so they are not in a big hurry.
DeleteMaybe they will be gone from Bosnia by June considering the new-old nonsense tax.
DeleteI would not be surprised.
DeleteThe thing with the tax is that the airports will pay for it so Ryanair can keep flying. Complete nonsense
DeleteAirports will pay the tax, but airports will charge them to passengers.
DeleteNumber of seats being added in ex-Yu is actually really low. I mean if Sun d'or with its flights to BEG and TGD is near the top of the list
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DeleteAn airline flying from Tel Aviv is adding more seats than JU does to its entire network!
And China Southern with its 2 weekly flights to BEG.
Delete@9.13 sorry but you can't expect JU to add so many seats every single month or quarter. In last few years they probably added over half a million.
DeleteWho cares. JU is the busiest airline by capacity in Q1. You can twist and turn your comments as much as you want but that fact ain’t gonna change. Lol
DeleteThe biggest fish in a small pond!
DeleteWell ten years ago they weren't even the biggest fish in a small pond. So they have obviously made some progress
DeleteTrue
DeleteWhat equipment does Sun D'or use?
DeleteB737-800 and wet leased A320.
DeleteAnd they recently painted first B737-800 in beautiful new Sun d'or livery :)
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteGreat news for Croatia Airlines finally surpassing pre-Covid levels! The new A220s should help
ReplyDeleteThe new A220s are amazing. A great flying experience that OU fliers never had before.
DeleteHow is actually getting killed on LX better than what your incorrect assessment of almost getting killed?
DeleteLow cost carriers clearly winning the growth race. More competition is always welcome.
ReplyDeleteIt's the same situation all over Europe.
DeleteRyanair really took advantage of the whole Wizz situation. Well done to them
ReplyDeleteThey said 2 years ago they will overtake Wizz in the Balkans. And they have
DeleteWizz Air will fight back. This is a temporary decline which is out of their control.
DeleteWe will see. I think the main fight between these two will be over Ukraine when it opens.
Deleteand how did they take advantage?? by launching zero flights to BEG and SKP???
Deleteits the other way around
I've noticed that Pegasus and AJet are now competing on many routes. I wonder if it is sustainable to have to players on all those flights or if one of them will beat the other.
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DeleteIt would be great to get at least one of those two in LJU.
Delete^ +1
DeleteAfaik traffic is limited by the bilateral air agreement between Slovenia and Turkey, so until that's revised...
DeleteYes I believe so too. Unfortunately. Only TK and JP are designated airlines, eventhough JP is no longer among us.
DeleteI really hope Wizz Air's comeback will be drastic, if that day ever comes.
ReplyDeleteWhere is easyJet's growth coming from?
ReplyDeleteNew Pristina routes
DeleteAh that's right. Thank you.
DeleteAre those routes staying during the summer?
DeleteYes they are
DeleteExcellent.
DeleteThey are becoming very strong in PRN
DeleteI believe they were the busiest in PRN in 2023.
DeleteActually Wizz Air overtook them in 2023 but they were busiest up until then.
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2023/01/wizz-air-overtakes-easyjet-to-become.html
GP Aviation will be busiest this year.
DeleteIn 2024 I mean
DeleteBut W6 do it with less flight on bigger planes :) Saving good.
ReplyDeleteAnd mostly new planned too.
DeleteMeant to write **planes
DeleteI'm surprised Ryanair parks up to the terminal in ZAG. (looking at the photo)
ReplyDeleteThey park at the gate but they use the stairs to board/disembark passengers.
DeleteCan't believe Pegasus is ahead of Lufthansa!
ReplyDeleteAnd Austrian too
DeleteYes but it would be interesting to see how much the Lufthansa group has in total.
DeleteNice growth from LOT. How come they are adding so many seats?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/12/lot-to-grow-frequencies-across-most.html?m=1
DeleteRyanair dominates in summer but they are not huge in winter. Wizz Air has much more balanced year round network
ReplyDeleteIt's because of the seasonal Zadar base.
DeleteAlso Dubrovnik. Ryanair has 9 aircraft based in Croatia all summer.
DeleteI'm surprised that OU still doesn't fly from Ljubljana to Dubrovnik and Split or Brač during the summer months. There would probably be demand for twice a week at a reasonable price.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as Jasmin finishes drinking his coffee
DeleteOU don't know what reasonable pricing is. Just look at the LF
DeleteWhy should they fly. Adria flew to all three destinations and failed
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