NEWS FLASH
Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport welcomed 89.868 passengers in November, marking a 2.1% decrease compared to the same period last year. It is the first month since March 2021 the airport has registered a year-on-year decline in passenger numbers. During the January - November period, Ljubljana handled 1.352.7413 travellers, up 14.3%, although the figure is still down 17.3% on the pre-pandemic 2019. The slump in traffic is likely to persist into December, with an estimated 9.8% decrease in available seat capacity on scheduled flights.
Ljubljana's largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, November 2024
Bravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteCatastrophe, are you even a real airport, if you can't maintain a 44 month growth streak?
Delete@Anonymous10:35 = You're just trolling now....
DeleteIf we look at Slovenian GDP per capita, they should have 5x more passengers from Ljubljana. On the flip side, Slovenia is beautiful tourism destination.
DeleteWhy not 6x times more? How did you settle for 5x?
DeleteWhat's the biggest reason for the shrinking? BA?
ReplyDeleteNo flights to Manchester / Liverpool. Ergo ipso facto.
DeleteBA and WIZZ are one of the biggest reason. Nov. 24 they had moire then 6000 avalible seats, this winter both canceled flights.
DeleteWell people were estimating 1.25 mil passengers this year but it will be more than 1.4 mil which is at least something
ReplyDelete1.25 mio was forecast for 2023. this year forecast was 1.4 mio. No (official) forecast published for 2025 yet.
DeleteEven Trieste has more passengers in NOV and in 2025 TRS will overtake LJU an annual basis. It's time to change LJU airport operator if they are interested in everything else than attracting the traffic. Slovenia has to defend its strategic interests and air connectivity is one of them.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just operator, it's owner.
DeleteWe've just seen KLM add 60k seats to the LJU market next year and Eurowings around 30k, plus increases by TK and IB. Fraport is far from good, but we're staying above Trieste for now
DeleteProbably wizz will also add seats next year. At least to skopje
DeleteEveryone knows that the most important thing is to have more passengers than Trieste. We do not care about connectivity anymore.
DeleteYes, yes, here it seems the only relevant data is about who's bigger.
DeleteYou can see ACI methodology about connectivity. LJU is doing bad in all categories and benchmarking except indirect connectivity (via hubs). And even here it's not brilliant because the market is dominated by one single group and fares are extremely high. Direct connectivity is a disaster (this would bring leisure guests, who are spending the money). Schedules are bad as well, as most of departures are concentrated midday. There is no competition at any single route out of LJU. So, putting all together, the situation is bad and it's not improving (in particular in winter).
DeleteAnd in Trieste, as we can conclude from the above, it is absolutely fantastic.
DeleteWell ACI only looks at the largest hubs or countries as a whole so of course Ljubljana will be one of the worst if not the worst with such methodology.
DeleteSad that easyjet which was once one of he biggest airlines at LJU now isn't even in the top 10 by capacity levels.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to change LJU operator. Fraport own airport, and this means that Slovenia must buy the airport back.
ReplyDeleteWhy not? It has been done in KLU and BUD recently. They know why.
DeleteThe question is how interested our government is in buying the airport back.
Delete@Anonymous11:12
DeleteNo it does not, Slovenia owns the airport as is. Fraport is only managing the airport through a lease arrangements.
Look on wikipedia who is LJU airpoort owner after 2014. and here you can see LJU airport history .
Deletehttps://www.fraport-slovenija.si/content/fraport-company-slovenija/sl/o-nas/zgodovina.html
There are two rhings. One is airport (company) the other one is airport (land). Company is owned by fraport, land is owned by SLO and leased for 99 years to fraport.
Delete@11:08 Yes and KLU especially has been flourishing since then, right?
DeleteWe will see if there will be any improvement. The case is still not fully closed (court dispute). But Austrian is already increasing frequency again.
DeleteHow much smaller was realised capacity in NOV24 compared to NOV23?
ReplyDeleteWow this looks really bad :(
ReplyDeleteYes, I heard the airport is closing by the end of the year because of it. Sad times.
DeleteThis Summer Timetable schedule would satisfy me for LJU
Deletedaily flights:
3 X LH FRA
2 X LH MUC
3 X LX ZRH
1 X AZ FCO
1 X SK CPH
2 X AF CDG
1 X KL AMS
1 X BA LHR
1 X U2 LGW
1 X OS VIE
3 X JU BEG
3 X TK IST
1 X FZ DXB
1 X SN BRU
1 X SU SVO (once relations are established again West/Russia)
2 X LO WAW
weekly flights:
4 WEEKLY W6 SKP
2 WEEKLY IB MAD
2 WEEKLY VY BCN
2 WEEKLY VY VLC
2 WEEKLY VY AGP
4 WEEKLY A3 ATH
4 WEEKLY LY TLV
2 WEEKLY KM MLA
4 WEEKLY HV AMS
3 WEEKLY HV ORY
4 WEEKLY 4O TIV
3 WEEKLY 4O TGD
3 WEEKLY W6 PRN
3 WEEKLY W6 TIA
2 WEEKLY BT RIX
2 WEEKLY BT LUX
2 WEEKLY DH ARN
2 WEEKLY DH OSL
2 WEEKLY EW DUS
3 WEEKLY EW HAM
2 WEEKLY EW BER
2 WEEKLY RO BUH
2 WEEKLY U2 MAN
2 WEEKLY EI DUB
5 WEEKLY AY HEL
2 WEEKLY U2 LIS
And then the groundhog wraps the chocolate.
DeleteExactly, this guy thinks routes are like a Panini sticker album.
DeleteGiven the reduction in the number of flights, I expected a larger drop in passengers. It seems that the load factor on the existing ones is better than last year.
ReplyDeleteLoad factor in November was 83,3% (107 900 sheduled seats)
DeleteAnyone know if swiss will keep the morning departure from lju in summer?
ReplyDeleteNo, they loaded similar summer schedule as in S24. Maybe they change it later, morning departure looks like a complete success, almost always full.
DeleteOn the other hand more frequently capacity increase from E190 to E195 for a mid-day flight, so I would say the real winner is a midd-day flight :) Last year Swiss finalised summer schedule around Dec 20.
DeleteLJU needs both, but morning departure is very useful for outbound passengers. I hope they bring it back.
DeleteAs a lawyer who knows the situation about LJU concession I must correct everyone above that Fraport is NOT the owner of the aiport, this is non sense. It is not the owner of the aviation infrastructure that is entered in the land register. This would not be possible under Slovenian law at all. The state is the owner of the real estate. It is possible that Fraport was given a right to build and own a building for up to a max of 99 years (e.g. maybe the new terminal) - this I would need to check. But the majority of the real estate with all the buildings belong to the Republic of Slovenia.
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