NEWS FLASH
Air France has reduced its planned frequencies between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Ljubljana throughout the remaining winter and upcoming summer season when compared to last year. The French carrier will maintain nine weekly flights between the two cities in March, down from eleven weekly last year, as well as daily services from April onwards for the remainder of the 2024 summer season compared to ten weekly rotations last year. Further changes remain possible.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is going on , every article is for cutting routes in the region , they said 2024 will be very succsesfully in the aviation but this situation is not saying that ....
ReplyDelete2024 will be very successful. Airlines are diverting capacity to lucrative markets and away from weaker ones.
DeleteThats not the point , so see potential only to where the money are , those who dont have money will use train or bus to reach some destination , they cut your opportunity to travel easily and faster.
DeleteAir France can charge hundreds of euros for a flight from Paris to New York or to Rome, so why should it fly to Pristina, Belgrade etc. when it has codeshare partners that can do it
DeleteI am waiting for the guy who will comment that people already spend the money they saved up during the covid and that now we wont travel as much as last year so 2023 records were once in a lifetime.
DeleteMy guess is they need capacity for Olympics on more high yielding routes.
ReplyDeleteLast year AF had meetings with Slovenian government and The Slovenian Tourist Board about promotion of the Olympics. Seems like nothing came out of that.
DeleteI other words, they asked for money, didn't get any and now they are moving away from LJU. Victory for LH group (and Fraport).
DeleteWeird...some people said they increase Zagreb because of Slovenians but on the same time AF cutting Ljubljana? What happend with slovenians? They stopped to travel?
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:41 AF got tricked by the low connectivity of Ljubljana and thought that it could be the smartass to discover this relatively untapped market and enjoy the profit. Same as Air Baltic's motivation to launch RIX-LJU route.
DeleteFrench national carrier noticed that it doesn't work like that and Slovenians passengers are leaking right and left, after few years of operations. Now they're giving more mature decisions. Air Baltic will follow that path too, in few years.
Very true indeed, even in 2019 when they had double daily flights together with Adria daily they saw that there is zero demand on LJU-CDG and most passengers were Croats. Soon they will leave LJU and we should be happy that we can fly LJU-FRA-CDG. Or if we are really lucky Transavia will have one weekly flight to ORY.
DeleteLJU keeps winning!
ReplyDeleteThey asked for subsidies and didn't get them
ReplyDeletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2023/10/air-france-discusses-incentives-with.html
Where is now folks screaming from the bottom of their lungs “market will sort everything out” in LJU?
ReplyDeleteWell, the market did sort it out. There is not enough demand so Air France will fly three flights less per week. The aircraft will be used on routes where there is more demand.
DeleteTrieste - Paris with Ryanair better option.
ReplyDeleteGood that we have a choice. I would never fly to Paris Beauvais even if you pay me. Transavia from Ljubljana to Orly would be my LCC option.
DeleteRyanair doesn't fly to Paris, they fly to Beauvais, which is deceptively marketed as a Parisian airport
DeleteShuttle bus from Beauvais to Paris is 16 euros one way plus the transport you need from Ljubljana to Trieste which is 20 euors with train both ways. So 20 plus 36 if 56 euros, add the ticket of Ryanair to Beauvais on top of that and i am sure that Transavia or Air France will become better option immediately. LCC make us forget the other costs we have such as airport transfer when we buy a 10 euro ticket to small airport 100km away from our original destination.
DeleteExactly. It is not just the cost it is also time, just train to TRS airport from Ljubljana takes more than the flight itself.
DeleteChecked train connections from Ljubljana to TRS airport. Fastest is 3.25 hours (once per day), all the other connections 5+ hours. So, probably just shuttle or a car, by car means also parking fee.
DeleteI used a train from Ljubljana to Venice, as far as i remember the train left Ljubljana around 5:30 in the morning and we were at Trieste main train station at 7:30-8AM, around 10 we were at VCE.
DeleteIn Yugoslavia you had direct flights to US.
DeleteAnd?
DeleteBtw Ryanair added more routes from Trieste, 18 in total now: Charleroi, Beauvais, Berlin, Budapest, Dublin, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Malta, Krakow, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and Stansted
ReplyDelete18 in total, not 18 new.
DeleteThats what i said.
DeleteDont forget that transavia increased from 2 to 4. So this summer will have same frequency and more capacity compared to last year
ReplyDeleteNot surprasing, there's Olympics this summer.
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