NEWS FLASH
Ljubljana Airport welcomed 102.392 passengers in June, representing a decrease of 45.7% on the same month during the pre-pandemic 2019. The number of aircraft movements stood at 2.118. During the first half of the year, Ljubljana Airport handled 383.634 travellers, down 55.4% on 2019. General Manager Babett Stapel, noted, “We expect dynamic traffic growth to continue through the summer with monthly numbers exceeding 100.000 passengers. This will allow us to meet, and hopefully even exceed, our year-end passenger numbers, when 880.000 travellers are estimated to be served. [Operator] Fraport Slovenija enters the high summer season operationally well prepared. We managed to strengthen our services to meet the needs of increased traffic".
With collapse of major hubs like Frankfurt London, it's gonna be hard to achieve 880k in traffic.
ReplyDeleteFor the past few days Lufthansa is sending empty A319 in Ljubljana for morning rotation as the capacity of the airport reaches maximum and they have to cancel the 22:00 cet flight to Ljubljana.
Wizzair will only have 2 flights and Easyjet only 4 instead of 6
Why are Amelia International and Lipican Aer, both with passenger plane fleets, not flying from LJU?
DeleteWho's going to cover their losses?
DeleteI knew it, here Ljubljana coming back in full strength, by new year will overtake Belgrade Pristina and Skopje for sure
ReplyDeleteSkopje will be affected most by the Wizzair cancellations. We will have to see how they perform in 2 months time.
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DeleteTrolls are never funny. Quite the opposite. Obnoxious, if anything.
DeleteI am pretty sure that ZAD will be ahead LJU this year.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Fraport figures show that Ljubljana has the very same YTD traffic similar to Burgas and a bit less than Mykonos. But those numbers are expected to increase more during the upcoming months because of the high season.
ReplyDeleteLima airport reached more than 8 million already and Antalya half the traffic of Frankurt with 10 million vs 20 million.
Are they serious? we are on 45% of pre-pandemic traffic while other airports in region are near or even higher than 100%.
ReplyDeleteNot to forget that in 2019 JP already had huge cancelations which means that gap is even bigger.
How dare you say its only 45%. Few months ago it wasn't even that. Thats very good improvement, you are anti-slovenian. LJU is leader in region. Bravo Fraport and fanboys!
DeleteNot 45% of 2019 levels but 45% less than 2019 levels.
DeleteYou are right! But actually it does not make much difference, is it? :)
DeleteIt's down 45% in June, but it's down 55% in January-June. So 45% of pre pandemic level is correct.
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DeleteConsidering how quick most Slovenes are at bashing their own country, your comment doesn’t make any sense.
Ah yes of course, for 55% I must say "Bravo Slovenija", and if I don't I'm bashing my own country.
DeleteIt is good that dear Babett is making a 880k projection but what would happen if them crazy Western European airports put further limitations during the upcoming months??? We are being dictated the whole time! 2 years of this stupid virus and now they are imposing a limitation on the number of flights similar to what happened the other day with Air Serbia in Amsterdam! What is this??? The new USSR???
ReplyDeleteThe virus "suddenly" disappeared and masks suddenly off and they expected that people will not start travelling. Ahh now that they saw the numbers are going back to norm they say they cannot handle it due to shortage of staff! Yes, they were very comfortable during the last 2 years of having less work. Look, I feel empathy to all who lost their work but hardly criticise the governments of being LAZY and not being able to prevent such a thing. They are more focused on "going green" or lets rescue migrants without giving priority to their citizens at first place!! The EU needs to really reform urgently as this situation is getting funnier and absurd as time goes by.
Now Heathrow will also put limitations similar to Amsterdam and Britain is not even part of EU anymore buy they have the same *hitty problems. Absolute disgrace!
-1- Get yourself a chamomile tea. -2- Doing the calculations for how many crew and ground staff and how many aircrafts an airline needs to handle X number of flights cannot be that complex. The managements screwed up big time but the summer will pass and all we can do is hope they have learned the lesson of being cheap while wearing money-coloured glasses so that next years will not be such a circus. Right now it’s too late to hire new staff (and even fired ones were away long enough to be required to do all/some/much of the training from the beginning, that takes time). If you are part of the circus just weather the storm in a way that will not hurt your health (physical and mental) and that all security and safety measures are observed as they should be during ‘normal’ times so no unnecessary stupid happens. Hiring problem is on the airlines and airports – they will have to adapt with better work conditions and fairer wages sooner or later or their revenue will be limited by the limitations of the hiring pool. -3- It seems to me that the green-ish governments just took the opportunity to limit the capacity of the airports – with these miscalculations it was handed over to the environmentalist on the plate. -4- This LJU “enters the high summer season operationally well prepared” is just a sheer luck that all the planned Russian flights got cancelled and is therefore just a bit understaffed. Would be much worse.
DeleteThanks for the tea advice. I see you are a progressive combatant and will respect your view. It is too late to hire staff but it is too quick to halt restrictions and allow anyone to fly following a strict restriction. You are talking about the future but I am talking about the present situation. Will you deny that the system has failed?
DeleteWill you also deny that not only Ljubljana but Belgrade were both affected with those bs policies? You make it sound as if the situation is "quite normal" when infact it is not.
Actually I agree with you, the system has failed (this could be at least partially prevented), stuffing people together and removing restrictions while pandemic is still going on is stupid (and costly, for example, flight cancellations due to covid sick crew, ground handling limitations due to staff on sick leaves). Big airports are the circus, smaller airports are collateral damage, it's all connected, of course it affects LJU, BEG and similar sized airports. Didn't want to imply the situation is quite normal, I agree it is not, but in this mess there is not much we can do - be it the system failure, removed covid restrictions, etc. because nobody cares what we think. If it were up to me pax would get tested before the flight and before getting in contact with the airport/airline personnel (it's not a 100% solution, it would make it safer though) and airports/airlines would hire enough people. But those who decide upon such things apparently don't care, so the best thing I can do is to take care of myself while do my best to try not to make things harder for other staff. And hope the decision makers get some sense.
DeleteThere were news that Ryanair is considering returning to Graz again. That wouls be perfect for us from Maribor. Driving do Graz is at least 3 times faster compared to LJU or ZAG.
ReplyDeleteBut if MBX is maybe going to get Ryanair, then, i think it would be 10 times faster for you and the people of Maribor than LJU, ZAG AND GRZ!
DeleteNot really. 20 min to MBX and 35-40 min to GRZ.
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