Adria Airways plans to further grow its operations out of Ljubljana next summer with a notable increase in frequencies across its network, following last week's announcement it would launch six new routes in 2018. The Slovenian carrier is set to add extra flights on seven destinations, including Copenhagen, Paris, Prague, Podgorica, Skopje, Tirana and Warsaw. Notably, the airline will introduce an additional four weekly services to Podgorica for a total of eleven per week, putting pressure on Montenegro Airlines which will operate just three weekly flights on the route. The two carriers had previously codeshared on each others' service but the agreement has been recently discontinued. In the region, Adria will also add a further three weekly flights to TIrana and one weekly service to Skopje, bringing its operations on both routes up to double daily.
The Slovenian carrier will also be adding two weekly flights to Paris, Copenhagen and Prague when compared to last summer season. As a result, the airline will maintain ten weekly services to the French capital, daily to Copenhagen, and five weekly operations to Prague. Furthermore, Adria will add one flight per week to Warsaw for a total of six. Next summer, the airline also plans to maintain operations between Ljubljana and Kiev, which were launched this winter season. A total of three weekly flights will be operated on this route. The increases in frequencies are in line with the carrier's strategy of developing Ljubljana into a transfer hub for travellers between Western Europe and the Balkans.
Last week, Adria announced plans to launch six new routes out of the Slovenian capital including Brač, Bucharest, Dubrovnik, Hamburg, Sofia and Geneva. "At Adria Airways we want to maintain our position as a reliable airline and good market player. I believe that by introducing these new connections we will also be opening up new opportunities for both business and tourism", the airline's CEO, Arno Schuster, said. Chief Commercial Officer, Christian Schneider, added, "The year 2018 will be key for Adria Airways and this is why we are happy to follow our growth strategy by announcing new destinations out of Ljubljana. This is good for the market, this is good for the customer, because it gives more variety, more choice. We have seen the demand already in 2017 and this is why we believe that 2018 with new destinations will be good for the market".
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I wonder if JP carries ZAG passengers to places like PRG or HAM.
Since yesterday it flew to:
LJU-VIE-LJU
LJU-KBP-LJU
Let's see if it goes anywhere else today.
JP CRJ might not be comfortable but at least it makes the flight is 01:20.
1234567 SKP-BEG JU 04.25-05.35
1234567 SKP-LJU JP 04.50-06.15
12345-7 SKP-ZAG OU 05.45-07.05
1234567 SKP-LJU JP 15.05-16.30
1234567 SKP-BEG JU 15.05-16.15
1---5-- SKP-ZAG OU 15.55-17.10
Funny how they all fly at more or less the same time.
Can LJU cope with all this growth? It's not like it's a big airport.
JP flies a lot of charters to Greece and Turkey as well.
If yes I agree that this was a major mistake.
JU should be playing Adria's role in the region.
Fast and reliable transfers to the rest of Europe.
Y - JP - Oth
'14 - 907k - 400k
'15 - 951k - 481k
'16 - 854k - 551 k
Let's not forget how expensive OU is to BRU!
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Now what?
Also, your original post was super constructive.
I'd say OMO as well.
so far, it looked to me as if they didn't have much idea what are they doing
Operators from EU / EEA member states
In accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of Council of 24 September 2004 on common rules for the operation of air services in the Community, the air carriers of the member states of the European Economic Area (European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein,) have the right to operate intra community air services without any authorization, but they have to submit written notification of the intended flight to the Agency.
The same traffic rights, except for the cabotage rights, apply to Swiss air carriers in accordance with the Agreement between European Union and Switzerland.
However, to start scheduled services in Croatia:
https://i.imgur.com/dZxjodG.jpg
and as far as I know Croatia and Slovenia do not have any bilateral agreement on open skies.
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@7h40: when did an authority prohibit in Exyu a route due to such unclear allegations, do you have some examples?
Yes, that's why Ryanair and easyJet have stayed away from Germany, France or Italy... oh wait...
Examples are Solinair, Lipican Aer, Swiftair and Swiftair Hellas who all wanted to have non-scheduled commercial cargo flights (on behalf of UPS and TNT) between LGG, CGN, LJU, ZAG, SJJ and BEG and were denied such flights on many occasions.
Difference was much more than 50 EUR. In my business 50 EUR is money that I spent every day just for drinks, that amount of money I don't find as amount at all. It is not even a pocket money.
Adria: in past from Croatia Adriatic ports to several destinations in Scandinavia
easyJet: more than 50 routes to 20 different countries out of Croatia
Ryanair: from Zadar, Pula and Rijeka to 15 different countries and Ireland is just one of those.
Wizz Air: 3 different countries from Split and Osijek
Don't write bullshits. EU airline can fly whenever inside EU they want. No, any restrictions, no any possible SAFA inspection which then determines that you are unworthy to fly. If CCAA even try to do such a think Croatia would have huge sanctions.
Same, if DL decides to fly from ZAG to LGW it can still do it.
You know when Easyjet sends a notification and when Solinair sends a notification, the level of "support" from the authorities is much different :) The EC rules are there, the reality isn't and it will take a while before we abolish these things as SAFA or "flight notifications" which at the moment only serve as a deterrant to unwanted operators. Ask yourself, if we really have completely open skies, why the ef do you need to notify CCAA in the first place.