Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines plan to increase operations to Belgrade, Ljubljana, and Zagreb this coming winter season, which begins on October 27 and runs until March 30, 2025. In Belgrade, Swiss will add an extra weekly rotation over the winter for a total of seventeen weekly flights, up from last winter’s sixteen weekly services. The Swiss carrier will maintain double daily flights between the two cities Mondays through to Thursdays, with a triple daily service on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. A range of aircraft have been scheduled to operate the route throughout the winter, including Airbus A220-100s, A220-300s, A321s, the Embraer E190 E2s and the Embraer E195 E2s, the latter two being operated by Helvetic Airways.
As previously reported, Swiss is increasing frequencies between Zurich and Ljubljana to fourteen weekly. The majority of the flights will be operated by Helvetic Airways on Swiss’ behalf with its 110-seat E190 E2 jets. On the other hand, Lufthansa will add an additional three weekly flights to the Slovenian capital for a total of 24 weekly services. The additional three weekly rotations will come on the Munich – Ljubljana route, which will be maintained ten times per week, instead of last winter’s daily service. It will complement Lufthansa’s double daily flights between Frankfurt and the Slovenian capital. As a result, the German carrier will maintain two daily flights between Munich and Ljubljana on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Lufthansa will also ramp up operations to Zagreb. This coming winter, the airline is adding an extra five weekly flights to the Croatian capital for a total of 28 weekly services. The airline’s Munich - Zagreb route will see an additional four weekly flights for a total of fourteen weekly services, while the Frankfurt flights will be increased from thirteen to fourteen weekly as well. As a result, Lufthansa will fly from both Frankfurt and Munich to Zagreb twice per day throughout the winter. A range of equipment will be used on the two routes, with the CRJ900s scheduled on 80% of all flights, followed by the A319s on 11% and the A320s on the remaining 9% of services during the 2024/25 winter season.
Lufthansa just announced considerable long-haul network cuts for this winter. They are reducing capacity on many routes (ORD 7/14 from B748 to A346 for example).
ReplyDeleteGood news!
ReplyDeleteLol, in winter FRA and MUC haven't enough people for maintenance planes like deicing and cleaning runways. Temperatures around zero and main flights are canceled. Special afternoon and evenings time. Seen last 2 winter seasons.
DeleteWell Lilufthansa always schedules growth and then 3 weeks before the season cancels it all
ReplyDeleteLet's look on the bright side, at least they are thinking about bringing back free coffee and tea.
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DeleteIf you want to have a coffee or tea go to a pub or make it in your kitchen.. Eating and drinking has nothing to do with traveling. By the way, nobody cares about it, otherwise nobody would fly Ryan .
Great news!
ReplyDeleteLH group is the most reliable travel option from our region to the rest of the world.
I wish Brussels airlines was more active here.
In Belgrade they are the third most reliable option after JU and W6. Many suffered in BEG from LH deciding to reduce FRA and MUC flights this summer.
DeleteYou obviously do not live in Beograd Anon 09.17
DeleteYou obviously do not travel Anon 09:29
DeleteI do and that is why I am saying that an airline like JU that handles half the traffic in BEG is far more useful than Lufthansa which has 5% of the traffic. i am surprised you even dare say otherwise
DeleteWith LH you can travel everywhere, with JU to a limited number of destinations and with very sparse frequencies.
DeleteI would not say 87 destinations is limited.
DeleteAsk Croatia.
DeleteLol no one comes close to Turkish in terms of connections and professionalism, not to mention that you get actual meals for the same price
DeleteTK customer service is aweful. If you call their call center guys treat you like garbage and make you feel stupid for even calling them . I stopped flying TK 4 years ago.
DeleteI'll give you the connections. Most of the cabin crew doesn't give a s*** tho.
DeleteTKs safety record says it all. I personally don't care about a nice in-flight economy product when one's safety is in jeopardy, especially when compared with all other carriers of developed countries.
DeleteBravo 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭
ReplyDeleteI hope those three aditional Lju-Munich flights are finnally early morning departures
ReplyDeleteWhy? They can always canalise you via FRA
DeleteThey are evening flights
DeleteMunich - Ljubljana
18.45 - 19.35
Ljubljana - Munich
20.15 - 21.15
Or now via Zurich. People here are always complaining about morning and evening departures from LJU. When there are new morning they are not satisfied since there are no new evening and when evening are added they are complaining since there are no new morning departures. Agree with Anon 10:37. One should look at LH group as whole not a single airline or just one hub. So, there are daily 2 early morning departures (FRA, ZRH), 1 mid morning (FRA), 1 early afternoon (MUC), 1 mid afternoon (ZRH), and 3 weekly evening departures (MUC). So, what is missing is more daily evening than early morning departures.
DeleteAnon 11:22 There is also BRU. Let’s see if they will stick with 4 weekly like last winter. They actually don’t have proper aircraft for regional network. With smaller aircraft LJU would be easily daily but with a current one it is hard to do it.
DeleteGreat news for LJU where these small frequency increases actually have a big impact. It will be a busy winter.
ReplyDeleteTrue
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteLess and less need to use LH from BEG, especially for Europe transfers considering that so many destinations are now served nonstop. But I'm happy to see Swiss expanding.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is something that should be kept in mind for airlines that fly to BEG and rely on a lot of transfer passengers. There is simply a lot of routes now served nonstop from BEG. Two years ago you had to fly one of the Lufthansa Group airlines to reach Portugal for example. Now you have nonstop flights to Lisbon (by two airlines) and Porto.
DeleteNot really. Following that logic no transfer heavy airline would fly to other non-partner/code-share hubs.
DeleteActually, every other major carrier flying to BEG is a massive win for people flying to or from BEG as it means competition and brings the fares down. Also, non stop flights are usually more expensive compared to those with a stop over.
Good to see growth, but like someone wrote, be cautious with LH. They always announce growth, be it for winter or summer and then a month before the actual season starts cancels everything and says they have crew or engine issue.
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DeletePity Lufthansa has no plans to grow to 14 weekly in Skopje.
ReplyDeletePossible next summer.
DeleteThey are actually decreasing flights to Skopje by 1-2 flights per week (depending on the month) this winter.
DeleteAnd still no flights to Podgorica or Pristina
ReplyDeleteThey could shift Tivat to Podgorica over winter.
DeleteAir Montenegro cancelled planned Munich service. It is possible that there is simply not enough demand.
DeleteDoes Lufthansa fly nonstop European flights from any other city other than Munich and Frankfurt?
ReplyDeleteNo. Their hubs are FRA and MUC. They use Eurowings from other airports in Germany.
DeleteExcellent. There will be more options for passengers to fly to Europe and beyond.
ReplyDeleteReliable company, especially Swiss airlines. Zurich it's my favourite airport for transfer. It's simple and not crowded.
ReplyDeleteIndeed
DeleteYes, I think ZRH is the best from the LH Group hubs. Vienna is pretty simple for transferring but ZRH looks better in my opinion.
DeleteZRH is by far the most expensive for a transfer from a passenger's pov.! At least if you want to buy anything. Water, sandwich, newspaper - completely ridiculous prices for absolutely everything!
DeleteIts astonishing that these both and KLM are the only airlines from the EU/UK that offer decent service to Belgrade airport.
ReplyDeleteAnd that Iberia/British Airways and Air France are completely absent.
You okay? For starters, Swiss is not in the EU. Wizz offers decent service once you pay for extra legroom and other add-ons. Other EU/UK airlines also offer decent service to Belgrade - LOT, Air Baltic, Eurowings, Austrian, Aegean etc.
DeleteWith decent he probably means a lot of frequencies,good connection times..then it would fit.
DeleteGreat news! Loving the increased presence of LH on the Western Balkans. Would love to see them connecting MUC with SKP, I think business travelers would be happy to avoid flying W6 to Memmingen.
ReplyDeleteThat would be perfect. Hope it happens.
ReplyDeleteWatch Lufthansa cancel all of these increases, as they regularly do.
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