Adria to end Geneva service

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Qantas resumes international flights

Emotions were high on Monday as excited passengers set off on the first flights between Australia and New Zealand as part of a quarantine-free Covid-19 “travel bubble”, allowing families long separated by the pandemic to reunite and enabling Australia’s Qantas to restore scheduled international flights after more than a year. “(I’ll) yell, scream cry, hug, kiss, (feel) happy - all of these emotions at once”, Denise O’Donoghue, 63, said at Sydney Airport as she prepared to board her flight. The arrangement means passengers can make the three-hour flight across the Tasman Sea without having to complete a mandatory Covid-19 quarantine when they arrive. Television footage showed emotional scenes at the airports with families reuniting and hundreds of passengers thronging the international departure terminals at Australian airports. “It is the first time in 400 days that people can travel quarantine-free and we are adding 16 return flights a day to New Zealand, and they are full”, Qantas Chief Executive, Alan Joyce, said. Qantas will increase flights between the countries to about 200 each week, while Air New Zealand said it had quadrupled its flights to 30 on Monday, with its airplanes flying into New Zealand at 97% capacity. “It is truly exciting to start quarantine-free travel with Australia. Be it returning family, friends or holiday-makers, New Zealand says: ‘Welcome and enjoy yourself’”, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said. Australia was New Zealand’s largest source of international tourists before the pandemic, accounting for about 1.5 million arrivals or 40% of total visitors in 2019. The border opening received saturation coverage from media in both countries, with live television reporting from airports providing regular updates on the progress of flights. On a grass embankment at the foot of Wellington Airport’s runway, the words “Welcome Whanau” (family) were spelled out in giant letters. More than half a million New Zealand-born people live in Australia, just more than 2% of Australia’s population of nearly 26 million.
Source: Al Jazeera

Adria to end Geneva service

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Adria Airways will discontinue flights between Ljubljana and Geneva this week, with the last service scheduled to operate tomorrow, Thursday, Sptember 13. The Slovenian carrier, which launched the route in March, maintained three weekly flights. It is unclear whether the airline will resume operations between the two cities next summer season. The route was initially envisaged as a year-round service.

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Anonymous14:31
What a pity... I'm sure they'll find a quick replacement.
Out of the new 6 destinations, two did not make it: BWK & GVA.
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Anonymous14:48
Geneva has mostly business passengers and for that you need at least 6pw rotation (mon-sat).
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Anonymous15:05
No suprise. That's what happens if you try to reinvent the weel. LJU is very limited market. That's why we apppreciate to have JP just as it is. Just don't overkill yourself.
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Anonymous18:02
Bwk is not on adria destination list...
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Avro RJ100 Fan13:24
And yet someone the other day described SKP-GVA as a 'low-hanging fruit' for low-cost airlines. The same route that LX failed to make it work with a <100 seat Avro RJ100 (granted LX is not low-cost, but still).

In addition to LJU, JP could rely on connecting passengers from at least SJJ, TGD, PRN, SKP, and TIA, but still could not make it work thrice weekly.

It's a shame, but also a reminder that talk is cheap.
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