Neighbouring airports are attempting to attract as many passengers from Slovenia as they can as the country continues offering subsidies to airlines for the launch of new routes as a means of improving its connectivity. Graz Airport in Austria, located some seventy kilometres north of Maribor, said around 10% of its total number of passengers are from Slovenia. It saw an increase in Slovenian travellers last year after Eurowings opened its base in the city. Furthermore, the airport reported that a sizeable number of Slovenian travellers utilise its extensive summer charter programme each year.
Croatia’s entry into the Schengen Area last year has resulted in an increase in travellers from Slovenia using Zagreb Airport. Last year, an estimated 200.000 Slovenian travellers passed through the airport or around 5% of all passengers. “We do not keep data on the nationality of passengers. This estimate is based on statistics of parked cars at the airport and the origin of sold air tickets”, Zagreb Airport said. Approximately some 550 Slovenian passengers are currently passing through Zagreb Airport on a daily basis.
Austria’s Klagenfurt Airport handled a total of 153.536 passengers in 2023 with a notable number of travellers from Slovenia. Situated about seventy kilometres north of Ljubljana Airport, Klagenfurt Airport reported that 18% of its passengers last year originated from Slovenia, totalling over 27.300 travellers. Klagenfurt is served by Austrian Airlines, which maintains operations to Vienna and Hamburg, while Ryanair runs year-round flights to London Stansted and seasonal operations to Alicante and Palma de Mallorca.
Trieste Airport in Italy is also competing for Slovenian travellers. The airport’s General Manager, Marco Consalvo, said the upcoming opening of Ryanair’s base in the Italian city presented an opportunity to attract more passengers from Slovenia. “We certainly have traffic from regional neighbours, who are progressively no longer going to Venice with the increase in our flight offer. Ryanair’s growth will enable us to retain our catchment area, which today uses Venice in large volumes. We definitely see an opportunity in attracting more passengers from Slovenia”.
Is LJU doing sonething to attract passengers from neighbouring airports?
ReplyDeleteWe used to do that with Adria, those days are sadly long gone
Delete@09:01 lol
DeleteIf LJU was doing something to attract pax from neighbouring airports then LJU wouldnt loose all these pax who are currently traveling from TRS, TSF, VCE, ZAG, MUC, Graz and Klangenfurt but the oppsoite, they would steal their pax and make them fly from LJU. I cant understand how can u ask such a question when litteratly the article says the opposite of what you ask, anyway let me answer you to this unlogical question. How would they attract? As far as i know all od them have the same routes as LJU, maybe Klagenfurt and Graz are the only ones with less routes but there is nothing special in LJU which will make people come and fly from there. 13 of 15 direct routes, how exactly do LJU has? lol
DeleteReal question is: does LJU airport does anything to attract passengers from Lju / Slovenia? For now it is almost nothing...
DeleteIm sure 1mio pax uses other airports and they either start they journey in Slovenia or they travel to slovenia. Huge potential for Ljubljana airport. There are more than
ReplyDeleteShows that the 'market size' argument isn't really true when it comes to LJU
DeleteIts hilarious how neighboring airports are doing more to attract slovenians tha the Slovenian airports.
ReplyDeleteBravo Fraport!
DeleteBesides Zagreb, Graz, Klagenfurt and Trieste, a lot of people drives to Vienna, Venice and Munich for flights and when all those numbers add up there is surely more than 500k/600k passengers
ReplyDeleteYes there are more then 40 daily shuttles to venice and around 20 to vienna. Plus blablacar.
DeleteComment of the year. "Slovenes travel to Germany to fly" haha
DeleteMunich is around the same distance from Lju than Vienna and yes I personally know people who go there to fly especially transatlantic flights. Even Slovenian tourist agencies offer packages with flights from Munich. It's not a funny comment, it's a reality
DeleteMUC is NOT as far as VCE. Some people here have absolutely no brain. Check damn google before you write stupidites like this one. LJU - VCE is cca 2h20”, LJU-MUC is 4h30” (at least!).
DeleteGosh I can't believe someone can't tell a difference between Vienna and Venice. You are the one without brains.
DeleteAlthough not in large numbers, Slovenes do fly from Munich by car. Although almost exclusively when they fly to long haul destinations. Personally know people who've flown from Munich to Madeira, Egypt, Hawaii and Japan, as it's so Michael cheaper than LJU
DeleteI use MUC almost always for long flights and i know a lot of people do too. Specially in our region..
DeleteSlovenes don't even need planes, according to anon @12:16 they fly from Munich by car!
DeleteKidding, it was obviously a mistake hehe
5% of ZAG pax are from Slovenia, FIVE %, but I m sure we will again and again read myths about Slovenians who only fill ZAG flights.I am sure that there is more than 5% of LJU pax that are from Croatia, especially on charter flights. Cheers
ReplyDeleteSource, please.
DeleteAnalitičar said 50% of LJU traffic are Croats who love to travel. And he is never wrong.
DeleteLeave it to them to comment on the schizophrenic madness of the myth that Slovenians travel from Croatia and Croats from Slovenia. This is crazy, why do you keep lashing out at people with these nonsensical comments.
DeleteLol did u read how they got this number? Its funny they even say it out loud.
DeleteI think that in this case he is most correct: 10:16
DeleteCroatians and Slovenians use neighboring airports because it's close to their home, it's like that everywhere in the world..... For example, I often traveled from Vilnius when I worked in Minsk. I don't think the numbers are huge. Like the guy above said - about 5%.
DeleteAnd I would still like to see the source, since airports normally do not track the nationality of their passengers.
Delete@10.30 you realize the figure is written in the article? Have you even read the article?
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DeleteTo find the percentage of Slovenian passengers of the total, we divide the number of Slovenian passengers (200,000) by the total number of passengers (3.7 million), then multiply the result by 100 to express it as a percentage.
Percentage of Slovenian passengers = (200,000 / 3,700,000) * 100
Percentage of Slovenian passengers ≈ (0.05405405) * 100 ≈ 5.41%
Therefore, about 5.41% of the total number of passengers at Zagreb Airport in 2023 are Slovenians.
No one has written that on here for ages. It's just you whining about something you saw someone write a year ago or smth like that.
DeleteBesides, 5% is pathetic, given that it takes less time to drive from west Zagreb to Slovenia than it takes to drive to the other side of the city. That's how close we are. We should have at least about 10% of Slovenes like Graz.
Klagenfurt and Zagreb attract, but TRS steals. This is how business is done. Check car registrations at the airport.
ReplyDeleteTRS steals also from Venice and Treviso as the same offer brings closer to Slovenia.
DeleteTRS has been attracting people from Slovenia for years, for example along the coast of Slovenia people travel massively through TRS.
Delete....Trieste is as VIE/BTS.
Delete....small version
DeleteTrst je naš!
DeleteIt is time Slovenia to transport their own passangers and not to export them to neighbouring countries.
ReplyDeleteWhy? What difference does it make?
DeleteIt makes the difference that a portion of your fare will go back into the Slovenian economy and not Germany's or Austria's.
DeleteMany inbound visitors, who find more attractive tickets to destinations other than Slovenia, stay there. Slovenia is losing income due to bad connectivity.
DeleteThis is a major handicap from Ljubljana Airport
ReplyDeleteIsn't it great to have so many choices? Like having Lidl, Mercator, Hofer, Leclerc, Tuš, Eurospin, Spar ... in your neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteJust like Croatia. Croatia has Lidl, Konzum, Kaufland, Plodine, Eurospin, Spar, Tommy... in their neighbourhood... Just like airports Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Venice, Graz, Trieste, Belgrade...
DeleteBesides domestic airports, especially in warmer half of the year: Zagreb, Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Pula etc.
DeleteOnly on this forum is this considered a bad thing. In reality passengers from Slovenia have a fantastic offer.
Delete^ Ljubljana Airport's CEO Babett Stapel has said it is an issue and handicap for the airport. Obviously it is considered a bad thing beyond this forum.
Deletedefinitely of all ex yu countries Slovenians have the best offer. Of course this count if you travel as tourist, couple time per year
Delete11:16 +
DeleteAll neighbouring airports are just across the border. As a rational person I will use the optimal choice
Delete@11.16 Slovenia has the best offer? Lol
DeleteYes, Slovenia has the best offer. Slovenians have access to vastly cheaper flights than people in Belgrade do.
Delete^ you did a cross analysis of pricing on the 120 nonstop destinations served from Belgrade?
DeleteAnon 11:00 "Only on this forum is this considered a bad thing"
DeleteWhat published article on this site claimed that many choices Slovenians have is a bad thing? Not a single one that I know of. You may want to check facts.
Good is to see TRS-BER.
ReplyDeleteLjubljana has so many secondary apps ... LJU-Trieste, LJU-Zagreb, LJU-Klagenfurt, LJU-Ljubljana 😄
ReplyDeleteI always use TRS or VCE because cheaper and good connections.
ReplyDeleteAZ 01356 Roma FCO 06:40 06:40
DeleteAZ 01350 Milano LIN 07:30 07:30 New gate
AZ 01358 Roma FCO 11:20 11:20
AZ 01352 Milano LIN 12:00 12:00
EN 08819 Frankfurt 14:40 14:40
AZ 01360 Roma FCO 15:20 15:20
AZ 01364 Roma FCO 19:30 19:30
FR 01759 Palermo 19:30 19:30
Those are departures from TRS tomorrow 15FEB24....not sure what people here are talking about....
I really don’t understand how’s possible Montenegro with 0.6 mil people can have national carrier and Slovenia with more than 2 mil and much stronger economy can’t have??? Something’s wrong definitely
ReplyDeletebecause they dont want an airline that depends on state aid
DeleteBecause Montenegro is smart
DeleteThey say that Air Montenegro is profitable
DeleteAsk Aerodromi Crne Gore how much they support them ;)
DeleteEveryone in former Yugoslavia seems to be "smarter" than Slovenia. I guess that is why Slovenia's living standard is basically double that of Croatia and triple or quadruple that of the rest of the Balkans.
DeleteCompared to Slovenia we're all third world.
Good thing we're so much "smarter" than them, or else we'd really be in trouble, eh?
We're so smart and choose our governments so wisely that the main life goal of the younger generations (and not only them), is to escape this part of the world ASAP.
We're so brilliant that even if we found the world's largest oil reserves in the Adriatic, we'd probably still be broke.
But hey...at least our airports have somewhat good numbers, yippee!! They'll have even better numbers with the large and ever growing diaspora.
Better living standards does not mean the country is perfect or that it has a well developed aviation policy. This is an aviation website, so discussing aviation makes sense. Slovenia has high living standards but it also has one of the highest suicide rates in Europe. So tying up aviation development and policy with living standards is pretty stupid to say the least. The government wasted millions upon millions into Adria Airways, only to let it go bankrupt. I guess that is smart to you.
Delete09:45 +1
DeleteSlovenia is few km in lenght,..so no sress
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