Low cost carrier Eurowings has tentatively scheduled its first nonstop service to Slovenia, between Dusseldorf and Ljubljana. Dusseldorf Airport has confirmed that the flights will commence on January 15, 2018, with the service to run three times per week, each Monday, Friday and Sunday. All operations will be maintained with an Airbus A319 aircraft. The Lufthansa subsidiary is yet to put tickets on sale, although the airline has filed its schedule until March 23 and has begun entering fares into the system. At this point, changes to the schedule are possible. Earlier this year, Eurowings' Senior Manager for Network Development and Airport Relations, Ivan Oreč, noted, "We are in constant talks with airports in Slovenia and we anticipate for a greater presence there in the coming period".
Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport is yet to officially comment on the new service, however, the airport previously said it expects a low cost airline, based in northern Germany, to launch flights to the Slovenian capital soon. At the time, Ljubljana Airport said, "We have introduced an updated and flexible tariff system, as well as incentives available to airlines, which has improved competitiveness. The system will contribute to the introduction and expansion of new and existing flights, as well as to the engagement of new carriers". It added, "By working on marketing, we aim to encourage airlines to launch new routes and attract passengers, particularly those using airports in neighbouring countries, and thus reduce the outflow of local travellers. We will focus our marketing activities on raising our profile and strengthening the airport’s competitive position in the region".
Low cost airlines have recently increased their operations to the Slovenian capital. Late last year, easyJet launched flights from London Gatwick, while the Dutch-based Transavia commenced services from Amsterdam in April. Eurowings has expanded significantly throughout the former Yugoslavia this year and has already announced new services to Mostar, Pristina and across Croatia for next year. The carrier provides passengers with the opportunity to transfer onto Lufthansa flights from Germany on a single ticket and has codeshare agreements in place with a numbers of Star Alliance operators including Air Canada, United and All Nippon Airways. The carrier faces no direct competition on its planned new service between Dusseldorf and Ljubljana. Further flight details can be found here.
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Haplek
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Haplek
According to stats they are top unserved routes. That is probably the reason why the routes were launched in the first place. But it does not have to mean that the routes would be successful. It could be that LJU is connected to all destinations where there is sufficient demand.
Transavia to AMS. Diferance between KLM or CTN price from ZAG for sure is not that high that people will pay for 280 km + parking + highways costs.
Wizz Air to London Luton and easyJet to London Stansted and Gatwick same think as British and Croatia usually have low price on that route (till few days there was Monarch with very low prices).
Wizz Air to Charleroi is the only real route but still Croatia and Brussels flies to Brussels.
Eurowings to Dusseldorf already fly to Zagreb 3 time per week. So, why will someone use same route from Ljubljana and spent much more money and time for extra travel.
Zagreb has more LCC than LJU.
Ljubljana:
easyJet: London Luton, London Gatwick
Wizz Air: London Luton, Cherleroi
Transavia: Amsterdam
Eurowings: to start Dusseldorf
Zagreb:
Eurowings: Dusseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Cologne
Norwegian: Copenhagen, Stockholm
Vueling: Barcelona
Air Transat and Air Canada Rouge to Toronto they are leisure airline but still it is almost as LCC (on concept, price, service...)
So Ljubljana: 6 routes by 4 airlines
Zagreb: 9 routes by 5 airlines
flights only for the diaspora
In terms of LCC frequencies, both ZAG and LJU have 22 flights per week done by LCCs.
And for all those who say that Adria couldn't keep the Cologne and Berlin route, so that DUS wouldn't work either - yes, but Adria is different model and it was at different times. Also in Slovenia people just think by default that Adria is expensive and LCCs are cheap (which is not always the case). So every LCC route that we have out of LJU is doing great. For example CRL with no connections onwards, questionable tourism demand and those who travel to Brussels business wise are mostly using Adria to BRU with much better scheduling.
On the other side EW has more and more internal troubles with flight crews going to public via press infg them about bad employee culture and messy working environmenz
https://seenews.com/news/ec-revises-up-slovenias-2017-gdp-growth-to-47-590444
Give it a rest, just because he think a route or an airline "could" succeed, it doesn't mean it coincides with the reality.
Oh yeah, and I've also heard the arguments about the "potential."
A few weeks ago someone called Aegean's model unsustainable so I would like to share with the ex-YU community the airline's results for the first nine months of 2017.
Revenue: €896.300.000 (+9%)
Profit before tax: €101.900.000 (+40%)
Profit after tax: €71.700.000 (+40%)
Passengers: 10.221.000 (+4%)
LF: 82.9% (6.2%)
Passengers per flight:
9 months: 120 (11% from 108)
Q3: 126 (7% from 119)
Overall solid performance ahead of their major fleet renewal decision.
http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/275677/eurowings-outlines-leased-adria-a319-service-in-dec-2017/
im sure you are the famous "croatian" guy mentioned yesterday
Also, are you seriously comparing OU's prices with Wizz Air and Transavia?! LOL
ZAG-BRU is never under €200
while these results do seem very good, lets wait for the results of the last quarter and the final annual results, because that is what counts- and then we could continue the discussion about the sustainability of their model
If that's the case, it doesn't look like they'll consider SKP for a while.
Even more proof that there's no conspiracy, just market conditions that everyone should be able to see.
In Q2 2016 they lost some €2.2 million while this year they recorded a post-tax profit of €15.8 million.
It means they already started making money before the busy summer season started.
The airline said that they focused on sales from outside of Greece and on optimizing their network so as to offer more connections.
In my opinion, Aegean has managed to prove to us all that they know how to run an airline. Especially in a challenging market like the Greek one.
Not true about ZAG-BRU especially on Brussels flies.
I am not comparing British/Croatia/KLM prices, but for sure if the difference in price is 70-100 EUR passengers will not travel to Ljubljana (time, gas, highway, parking...).
You make this small progress like Ljubljana become Eurowings base.
That is really great result.
Hopefully Croatia also has good year, projected GDP growth for this year is around 3.7%, as low as 3% to high 3.7%.
Agrokor dented possible better result. However tourism has generated significant revenue, Croatia for the first time had more than 100 million nights in single year.
Exports also grew @11% yoy, we'll see how things turn out at the end of the year, but with economy recovering strongly this year, and tourism growing at 15%, things are looking up.