NEWS FLASH
Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport expects to handle over 150.000 passengers on charter flights this year. The number of travellers on leisure routes grew 38% during the first four months of the year compared to the pre-pandemic 2019. During the summer, a total of 39 destinations in 20 countries will be served through charters. Passengers will be able to fly to ten Greek destinations, including Crete, Karpathos, Kefallinia, Kos, Lefkas, Lemnos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini and Zakynthos. A more varied offer of flights to Spain is available this season, where vacationers can discover Barcelona, Vittoria, Seville, Girona, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife. Multiple charter flights per week will also be operated to Egypt (Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh) and Turkey (Antalya). Flights will also be maintained to Tunisia (Monastir and Djerba), Malta, Madeira, the Azores, the Cape Verde islands, Porto, Palermo, Morocco, Lourdes, Split, Tivat, Jordan, Manchester, Cologne, Rotterdam, Riga, Rovaniemi and Iceland.
Great news, the demand is there. On the other hand, high relative share of charters is an indication of underserved scheduled network. There are complaints from some travel agencies that they can not book enough seat blocks on scheduled flights so the cooperate and book a charter flight instead. And we will still see if it will be a record year - 156k from 2018 and 158k from 2019 is still a challenge.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty much at least 10 destinations out of those could be covered by Ryanair
ReplyDeleteYou will wait for some time to se Ryanair in LJU...
DeleteThere is sooo much potential untaped from LJU ... people have no idea how many Slovenes fly from ZAG, Venice, Trieste, Vienna. But slovenes need Ryanair.
DeleteThere is a strong interest of LH and Fraport not to create any competition at LJU. The have (credible) interest to protect their own profit, not to take care on Slovenian's travel needs.
Delete@11:00 you are right! These days there are many tourists from Slovenia in Skopje and all of them flew with CTN from Zagreb. They are on holiday here.
DeleteVis'ti kako Jasmin radi poso', razbija sva trzista, ma nema takog nadaleko, kazem ja a vi ne vjerujete. Eto sad....
DeleteI would add they are also Italians (from Friuli Venezia Giulia region) flying to sea destinations with charters departing from Ljubljana. That's valid especially in July and even more in August. They are not speaking Slovenian so no minorities involved.
DeleteCool and great to see that Croatian Trade Air is operating so many Charter flights for Slovenians
ReplyDeleteAvailable A320, all Slovenian carriers don't have this type
DeleteIdeal for Charter ;-)
DeleteRiga, Rovaniemi and Iceland, how many flights to these destinations?
ReplyDeleteDBV would be great!
ReplyDeleteSKP airport people can teach from Slovenia , we still have italian and german villages aiports , but maybe we just dont have money to travel like Slovenians ..who knows :D :D :D
ReplyDeleteAnd to which villages to Italy do we have flights from SKP? Only TSF and in winter they operate to Marco Polo. We have flights fo MXP and FCO, not to CIA and Bergamo...
DeleteWell their are charters from SKP. The network is this more limited than LJU with only charter flights to Turkey, Tunesia, Egypt,Croatia and Cyprus. Wizzair is also flying to Malta which is also a very nice destantion. Tomorrow their is 3x Antalya 1x Bodrum 1x Izmir 1x Monastir and 1x Malta(their are also 2 flights to Jeddah tomorrow for people going to Mekka). It's limited to this network because that is what the purchasing power is I guess. Slovenia is a rich country and they have 300 k more people than us. That's why they have Greek islands, Spain,Portugal,Morocco and Cape Verde. I hope that we get atleast Barcelona back.
DeleteCorrect! We dont have flights to Greece cuz we can go there by car even though in the past we had...Also our people like Turkey, Tunis and Egypt, the ones which want to go to Spain are less then those who want to go to Turkey. I know many peoole which go to Spain and they go via SOF, i am sure that ee will get charters to spain these years.
DeleteSo inspiring
DeleteThis Friday 24 pax flt dep ex LJU, where from 3 Greece charters. It's getting better 😉
ReplyDeleteAnd 35 from Skopje...
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteTodays evening and tomorrows morning flights to Belgrade will be both operated with A319, so ig things are movement forwards
ReplyDeleteYou can interpret it in different ways... like today's morning flight to BEG was canceled... and same two days ago... so it's getting worse. :-(
DeleteSo what happened to that Slovenia will be second Switzerland, what once Peterle "predicted", I guess he meant little hub of charter flights.
ReplyDeleteMoney issue for tourists this summer? There is no Santorini charter from Serbia this year, Trade Air has route Ljubljana-Santorini via Crete.
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