NEWS FLASH
The Slovenian Minister for Infrastructure, Alenka Bratušek, has approved the provision of subsidies to both Iberia and Norwegian for the introduction of their respective flights from Madrid and Copenhagen to Ljubljana. “The two carriers will now be notified that the funds have been approved, and the contracts will be harmonised in the next few days. Once this happens, the approximate financial resources that will be provided to each carrier will be made public”, the Ministry said. Iberia has already scheduled the launch of its seasonal Ljubljana service, with Norwegian yet to do so, although it is expected to commence year-round flights from April 29. The subsidies are designed to cover 50% of the airline’s airport costs in Slovenia over a three-year period.
Neither did schedule as the result of the tender, Iberia did so regardless of the results. So let's wait and see if they schedule more rotations
ReplyDeleteIberia is just two weekly with a CRJ aircraft for one month and a bit. Hopefully we get more rotations now, especially as Zagreb has daily flights from July to early September.
DeleteThey most certainly will increase the frequencies and most probably the aircraft capacity too
DeleteIn order to increase frequency and aircraft capacity demand is necessary.
DeleteZagreb is nine weekly flights in August.
DeleteŠpanski letalski prevoznik Iberia Airlines je upravičen do državne pomoči za začetek obratovanja nove letalske proge med Madridom in Ljubljano v obdobju od 29. julija do 5. septembra letos, norveški Norwegian Air pa za začetek obratovanja proge med Köbenhavnom in Ljubljano od 29. aprila letos do 31. oktobra 2025, so sporočili z ministrstva za infrastrukturo.
ReplyDeleteI guess Iberia really is just doing those 12 rotations....
I can't see the point of this flights then just two weekly on such a small plane...
DeleteInsane, especially with demand. At least gov is doing another tender, so maybe they'll go for winter schedule
DeleteI am pretty sure there will be no more tenders for now...this was the last out of the three that were published and the outcome of those three is pretty sad so I don't see the point of another tender...
DeleteI apologise for my mistake...I found out that there will be another tender published tomorrow if I understood correctly...
DeleteTo quote Bratusek "we'll be opening new ones until the allocated money runs out"
Deletelol thats gonna be endless tenders then to get rid of the 15m €
Deletemaybe they should change T&C.
DeleteI guess that if they changed the rules that only allow EU airlines to apply maybe we could have gotten Pegasus or Qatar or even a UK airline like Jet2...but I don't know if there is any barriers in doing that (subsiding non-EU airlines from EU member...)
DeleteI wonder why W6 ignors Tirana-Ljubljana. They have 55+ routes from Albania. Ljubljana would work for sure and as far as i know Tirana was among the busiest unserved from LJU?
DeleteW6 is ignoring Lju all together
DeleteThey even discontinued their Luton service and the Skopje one is heavily subsidised by the Macedonian government
DeleteYeah for Adria apparently Pristina and Tirana were among the most profitable
DeleteI wonder who expects Norwegian to launch year-round flights :)))
ReplyDelete"Norwegian Air pa za začetek obratovanja proge med Köbenhavnom in Ljubljano od 29. aprila letos do 31. oktobra 2025" Norwegian does
DeleteIt might be an oversight or incomplete info. Maybe 2025 is correct but with a winter break i.e. for two summer seasons.
DeleteAlenka Bratusek, gravedigger of slovenian aviation sector is now handing out peanuts for airliners to fly it-doesn't-matter-where-just-fly, without even caring if there are 12 or 15 rotations during subsidy period. And they were bitching when AA got some. I hope she finally understands what she has done, and that big decisions have big consequences. Like ruining whole sector (Aiports, Adria Tehnika, Adria just to name few).
ReplyDeleteWhat about the national airline? When can we expect news?
ReplyDeleteThere is *some* talk that Bratusek will replace Golob, if that happens we are 100% getting one, now...i would be surprised, especially with Amelia out
DeleteCyprus Airlines has the intention to make an airline in a box or something like that and base an airplane or two, it was reported on this channel about a month or two ago, but there is still no news if it will go through or no....
DeleteWhere have you read that she will replace Golob? Really surprised.
Deletehttps://reporter.si/clanek/slovenija/bratuskova-namesto-goloba-kdo-nagovarja-ministrico-za-infrastrukturo-da-prevzame-vlade-in-kaksen-je-njen-odgovor-1243445
DeleteI wonder how much discount Fraport is giving on the airport charges for a new route. If it's a generous discount, getting 50% off the remaining airport charges isn't much.
ReplyDeleteOnly if such contract that our Government held back for long and troubled Adria was given to Adria in 2019, we would have seen a different aviation landscape today in our country.
ReplyDeleteMuch too late, but at least they realized it was a big mistake.
Delete@anon 21:10 - the majority of the subsidies are in fact for the landing charges and handling, so they go directly to Fraport.
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