Adria Airways is in the process of drafting its 2019 summer network out of Ljubljana with at least nine fewer routes to be operated compared to last year. After announcing the suspension of its Moscow and Dusseldorf service, which were maintained seven and four times per week respectively during the 2018 summer season, the carrier has no plans to resume operations to either Warsaw, Kiev, Brač, Bucharest, Dubrovnik, Geneva or Hamburg. Jointly, the nine routes were served 32 times per week last year. Furthermore, at this stage, the carrier is yet to schedule its two weekly seasonal flights to Tel Aviv, while services to both Copenhagen and Paris will be reduced by one weekly flight.
On the other hand, the Slovenian carrier has said it will increase frequencies between Ljubljana and Munich next summer from double daily to nineteen weekly, while services between Pristina and Frankfurt will see an additional weekly service for a total of eight per week. However, these changes are yet to be reflected in Global Distribution Systems. At this stage, the airline has scheduled an additional weekly flight between Ljubljana and Zurich. The Slovenian carrier is also set to maintain nonstop services from Tirana to Frankfurt and Munich.
In a statement, the airline said that changes to its network are taking place as a result of optimisation and available capacity. "We keep in mind our long-term goal, which remains growth, but we want to keep it sustainable and stable and our services reliable and safe", Adria told EX-YU Aviation News. According to local media reports, Adria will further grow its lucrative ACMI business with plans to wet-lease additional aircraft to Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Luxair and Lufthansa during the summer. Furthermore, reports suggest it will continue growing its operations outside of Ljubljana, due to the limited opportunities on the Slovenian market, although the carrier itself has never confirmed such statements.
Well, that's a shame!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I forgot Warsaw was cancelled :((
ReplyDelete"the airline said that changes to its network are taking place as a result of optimisation and available capacity. "
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Sukhois??? Wouldn't that increase available capacity?
They'll probably lease them out to some other airline.
DeleteWho would lease Sukhois in Europe?
DeleteWho said it will be in Europe?
DeleteI think JU is the perfect airline to lease them and expand out of INI.
DeleteOnly JU haters want to burden the airline with such a failed plane.
DeleteAdria's SSJs is a kids story.
DeleteWe will see this month. Apparently that is when the order should be firmed up.
DeleteThat will happen when 4K injects the promised 10 million EUR.
DeleteSukhois are coming. There is no doubt about it. You will see very soon.
DeleteIn February we still don't see firm order for start of operation in April. This is how profitable airlines operate.
DeleteSSJs will most likely operate only from Lju and all the others ACMI...
DeleteSuspension of OTP is great news for JU especially since they already do really well in LJU.
ReplyDeleteI guess JP's dream of a regional hub are slowly fading away and they are waking up from a dream.
However bad news for JU in SOF. JP intentionally has almost identical schedule.
Deleteintentionally?what are you talking about?
DeleteSofia is different because JU has more flights to SOF and a much superior network out of Belgrade. Not to mention JU flies Airbuses and not claustrophobic CRJs.
DeleteSofia sees a mix of CRJ-700 and CRJ-900 so I guess they must be doing well there. Shame JP doesn't operate daily night flights to improve connectivity.
DeleteSources indicate that JP has already borrowed transfer traffic from JU in SOF and people gradually chosing LJU because of shorter journey period and less stress in LJU.
DeleteХаха yes, I heard JU is shutting down its SOF flights because of mighty JP.
DeleteLJU airport will have negative growth this year. Again.. Back to 2017 numbers we go.
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DeleteIf Adria remains alive throughout the year, then the growth is expected to be -5%. If not, pick any number between -5% and -50%.
Negative growth doesn't exist. How can you grow down ? You can just diminish the traffic, reduce the traffic, lower the traffic, etc.....
Delete"Negative growth" is jargon used by economists, but you can always make things simple and just refer to a "decrease" or a "decline."
DeleteWhat a financial mess this company must be in!
ReplyDeleteOver 30 frequencies less. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteI guess LJU numbers should fall to some 1.6 million next year with the mess JP is in. Such a shame the airport keeps on stagnating like that especially since Slovenia is the richest country in ex-YU.
Delete^ So it's questionable if they will have ACMI with Lufthansa this summer? Or does this concern new ACMi deals?
DeleteLufthansa feeder airlines. Nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing bad about this; if they would just ensure to have more frequencies to the 5 LH hubs...
Deletebut it looks darker that just 4 months ago. Last autumn they were in talks to increase its acmi deals with LH; in December they did not even get invited to talks when LH was soliciting offers to run its LGW/OU dash operations....
They must be reducing their fleet out of Ljubljana. Will the Airbus fleet come back to LJU at the end of winter?
ReplyDeleteApparently according to Slovenian media, fleet in Ljubljana will be decreased to 8 aircraft.
DeleteThe airbuses are on ease till spring unless they have extended them. I guess it can be checked in their timetable. Which routes did they use to dispatch the airbuses too?
DeleteTwo Airbuses are already back. One is currently flying out of Ljubljana, one from Pristina. It has been like that for a few weeks.
DeleteAnon 14:50, correct. Only one A319 is flying for LH (MUC - OTP).
DeleteUnfortunate, from so much optimism this time last year with new routes to so many suspensions.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they will introduce some new routes so they cut some loss making ones.
ReplyDeleteEh it would be nice but I don't think so.
Delete?
DeleteWhat will they do with the other planes?
DeleteACMI obviously.
DeleteWhich media was that?
DeleteSiol is always very negative towards Adria.
Delete^^ But facts are facts.
DeleteNot holding my breath for TLV coming back.
ReplyDeleteWell 4K said that when they give recapitalization Adria will be restructured. So this is the restructuring.
ReplyDeleteThey have huge debts, they are clearly downsizing, they have no liquidity, their main currency is the good will of the contractors. There is no good news here.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine the 2017 financial report if so many routes are being cut. They need much fewer planes in LJU.
ReplyDeleteMedia wrote it will be the company's biggest loss ever.
DeleteWhat would that be then?
DeleteI think the record is over 50 mio EUR.
DeleteSo fewer flights from Ljubljana, big losses, focus on different markets. Smells like 2016.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is going on here??
ReplyDeleteNo liquidity.
DeleteAnon 09:33 We're witnessing an airline's bankruptcy, live coverage.
Delete@15:00
DeleteI think the theory now is that the Russians are behind it and they are cleaning the airline for the Russian takeover.
Untill now, we had: Iranians, who wanted the coveted JP's AOC, then we had Lufthansa, where JP was absolutely instrumental to the future of LH Group, we had 4K wanting the airline for itself, because they have a magic touch. Oh, of course, we also had the theory of 4K taking over all of the exyu airlines.
Still, if I turn the sarcasm off, they are still paying the salaries and the are not one day late. And they are also in debt to the ceiling.
The problem is that they would need to find somebody to from EU who wants to invest 51% of capital required to keep the sinking boat alive. Difficult task.
DeleteSalaries on time.. They are late couple of days every month. But people are used to this, the legacy carrier has always done business like that.
DeleteFrom what i heard the salaries are always on time. I think it happened only once that it was 1 day behind because 15th was on sunday. I heard that only extras to your basic salary are late a few days and there's nothing wrong with that because it's not your basic salary...
DeleteWhat is happening with those Saabs they purchased. Are half of them still grounded?
ReplyDeleteThey are stored. They can't find crew.
DeleteThere must be something else than just crew shortage
DeleteYou have to wonder who on earth cooked up the idea for them to get a plane that has so few operators and is not even in production any more.
DeleteAnon at 10:30
DeleteI bet it's the same genius who thought getting SSJs was a good idea...
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DeleteAFAIK, the Saab deal is part of draining Adria, since the whole thing goes through a couple of companies, which, of course, have nothing to do with 4K.
I think at this point it would be best for 4K to sell Adria to Lufthansa.
ReplyDeleteWhy would LH want them?
Delete+1
DeleteWell I hope 4K sells Adria to someone ASAP.
DeleteI think to sell it to BA would be better
DeleteNo ACMI business for Adria in Brussels...they choose Air Nostrum...
ReplyDeleteWhat aircraft type did they lease to Brussels last year?
DeleteI hope more foreign carriers see this as an opportunity to launch flights to LJU. It would nice to see TAROM launch Bucharest or easyjet from Geneva...
ReplyDeletewell, if as speculated that at some point Adria goes bust, somebody will certainly jump in and fill the gaps
DeleteSlowly, but inevitably, the end is coming. Is summer schedule is reduced so much, how is the winter 19/20 schedule gonna look like? Feeder to MUC/FRA/VIE/ZRH. Which is, as said, still better then nothing.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought Germans were known for their efficiency and sound business decisions.
ReplyDeletebut of course:
Deletethe sound business decision in this case was/is to earn as much as possible with the purchase of a struggling regional carrier.
When they acomplish that, they will make another sound business decision - and many here are guessing already what thats gonna be.
So how many routes in total do they have scheduled out of LJU for summer 2019 at the moment?
ReplyDelete16
DeleteThat's still not that bad actually
DeleteOut of those 5 are to LH hubs.
DeleteAdria is focusing more on Albania and Kosovo
ReplyDeleteBut they are just adding one extra weekly flight from Pristina. Nothing spectacular.
DeleteTheir passenger numbers from Kosovo have declined quite a bit last year.
DeleteThe fleet of Suhoi 100 Superjet aircraft is a real opportunity for Adria Airways profit increase.
ReplyDeleteTroll alert!
DeleteMore like "Adria sheds summer network"
ReplyDeleteI really do wish the best for Adria and I hope they recover but I'm not at all surprised that their hub business model failed. It's the same problem previous managements encountered and that's why they started opening bases in Pristina, Lodz and so on. They realized the Slovenian market is very limited and too competitive because of surrounding airports. Problem is basing planes elsewhere isn't cheap.A t the same time, the Balkan markets they hoped to link via Ljubljana already have developed air traffic compared to the 90s when this worked for Adria.
ReplyDeleteSKP will be 14x weekly-up from 7 last year.
ReplyDeleteIt was 12 per week last year not 7.
DeleteSame like PRN and TIA
Deleteit was 7 (after middle of April they cancelled the night flight)
DeleteThey will close PAD base...
ReplyDeleteI pray to God they don't, they need it to succeed!!!!!
DeleteIs this for real? Flights are in the system.
DeleteNope, flights are not on sale anymore
DeleteWell that didn't last long...
DeleteThey were leasing an ATR to maintain these flights so I'm not surprised.
DeleteThe writing was on the wall. They cancelled PAD- London just a few weeks after it started.
DeleteOperations from Paderborn are ceased.
Deletehttps://www.wp.de/staedte/warstein-und-umland/adria-airways-stellt-flugbetrieb-in-paderborn-lippstadt-ein-id216345151.html
Neka se spremi Ljubljana. Ljudi su klinicki mrtvi.
DeleteI've really lost patience with Adria. Every other year restructuring, route cancellations, near-bankruptcy...
ReplyDeleteSo ok guessing those announced routes to Spain and Italy are not happening?
ReplyDeleteExpansion will happen one Sukhois arrive.
DeletePaderborn will rise again! First we get state airline then we take it all.
DeleteI hope this will make Fraport realise they can't depend mostly on Adria and that they should bring new airlines.
ReplyDeleteCould not agree more. I don't know what strategy Fraport has, but If they want to make their investment profitable they should start attracting new airlines. Being dependent just on one customer in business is risky.
DeleteEverything points to LH using or influencing 4K/JP for their needs like feeder routes, aircraft leases, messing with regional markets etc. Whatever money is spent on 4K/JP is pennies for them, officially LH has nothing to do with them so they are free to play with the fate of Adria any way they want.
ReplyDeleteLh je pilo vodu do Suhoja.
Deletenisu ni potpisali obavezujuci ugovor za superjet a kao treba da stignu za mesec dva. nema nista od toga ali ovo za LH zvuci realno.
Deletešta se babi htilo to joj se i snilo
DeleteThe slovenian state should alternative develop MBX as low cost hub and forget about JP! It will bankrupt or they will do just ACMI. Maybe charter as it was in the really beginning! INEX ADRIA.... kids are playing pilots. Just forget it!
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