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Lufthansa reclaims top spot as Slovenia’s busiest airline in 2024

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Lufthansa has reclaimed its position as Ljubljana’s and Slovenia’s busiest carrier in 2024, overtaking Turkish Airlines after losing the title to its Turkish counterpart the previous year. Turkish Airlines maintained its lead until June, but Lufthansa saw a 28.7% increase in passenger numbers, driven by the introduction of a second daily service from Munich. The German carrier also recorded the highest passenger growth in the market, adding 47.828 travellers. Lufthansa’s average cabin load factor across its two Ljubljana routes for the year stood at 80%. Despite losing the top spot, Turkish Airlines continued to perform well, increasing its passenger numbers by nearly 10%.

Ljubljana passenger performance on scheduled flights by market, 2024


Swiss and Transavia saw notable growth, adding 22.211 and 17.291 passengers, respectively, on their routes. Swiss expanded its operations to Ljubljana by 20% year-over-year, increasing capacity by 21%. In contrast, Transavia’s growth primarily stemmed from the absence of flights in early 2023, as the airline suspended its Amsterdam - Ljubljana service from February until late March of that year. Passenger numbers on Ljubljana - London flights, operated by three different carriers, remained largely stable. Growth was initially driven by British Airways, which served the Slovenian capital during the first quarter for the first time. However, numbers declined in the fourth quarter when the airline opted not to renew its winter flights. Meanwhile, Wizz Air discontinued its London Luton route in February.

Among the airlines that recently launched flights to Ljubljana, Luxair reported an average cabin load factor of 73%. Wizz Air continues to perform strongly on its Skopje–Ljubljana route, which began in September 2023, achieving a high average load factor of 95.4%. Norwegian, which entered the Slovenian market in late April last year, carried 15.623 passengers on its Copenhagen flights, with an average load factor of 78.7%. Similarly, airBaltic, which also inaugurated services to Ljubljana in April, recorded an average cabin occupancy of 83.5%. Meanwhile, Aegean Airlines' seasonal Athens service saw an average load factor of 74.4%, while Iberia's limited operations between Madrid and Ljubljana achieved a strong 86.6% occupancy.


February 16, 2025
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  1. Anonymous09:02

    Bravo Fraport!

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    1. Anonymous17:18

      Busiest airline in the graveyard.

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    2. Anonymous19:56

      Bravo Fraport 👏🏻

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    3. Anonymous18:03

      Hilarious

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  2. Anonymous09:03

    Air Baltic has surpsingly good loads

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    1. Anonymous10:06

      All of the new flights operated really well except for Copenhagen, but destinations like those need time to develop

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    2. Anonymous00:33

      Would love to see Norwegian expand to other Nordic destinations like Stockholm or Oslo

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  3. Anonymous09:03

    I don't get why Ibearia didn't extend its flights this year.

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    1. Anonymous12:44

      they are increasing capacity

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    2. Anonymous21:42

      with such limited operations, it’s hard to tell if there’s real demand for Madrid flights or just pent-up demand from the summer

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    3. Anonymous09:12

      Iberia flights are there only with some agreement with tour operators, selling a few remaining seats via webpage. It's more regular charter around "ferragosto"

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  4. Anonymous09:06

    Anyone know where the JU growth came from? They didn't increase flights so loads must be much better? Did they send anything other than ATR to LJU? Maybe INI-LJU is doing better?

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    1. Anonymous09:11

      They had just a few flights with Embraer. The rest was with ATR

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    2. Anonymous09:13

      So that leaves us with better loads. Let's pray JU adds more flights or capacity to LJU, there is definitely room for extra growth.

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    3. Anonymous09:44

      JU decreased the number of available seats in ZAG but increased them in LJU.
      I beleive it is the effect of Ryanair's growth in ZAG.

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    4. EX-YU Aviation09:48

      In 2024, Air Serbia did not increase capacity in Ljubljana. In Zagreb, it increased its capacity by 12%.

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    5. Anonymous09:51

      LOL. Loving the experts like the anonymous @9.44.

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  5. Anonymous09:10

    Let the seething begin.

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    1. Anonymous09:49

      +1000

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  6. Anonymous09:15

    Bravo Lufthansa group!

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    1. Anonymous09:42

      LHG airlines have consistently provided the most service in our region for 30 years.

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    2. Anonymous15:33

      That's also why LJU is one of the most expensive airports to fly out of in Europe. Danke Mutti!

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    3. Anonymous22:00

      Fake news.

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  7. Anonymous09:25

    Seems like a good mixture of carriers- and good connectivity

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    1. Anonymous09:41

      +1

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    2. Anonymous14:02

      Lol

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  8. Anonymous09:28

    Nice one.
    Also seems that TK is really hurting by late deliveries of narrow body aircraft AND Pratt issues with their NEOs.

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  9. Anonymous10:19

    In another news, easyjet is currently operating daily flights between LJU and LGW in February. Presumably only for the duration of the winter holiday, but nevertheless a good development

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  10. Anonymous10:19

    Now we see big "success" of stagnation of Flydubai in LJU

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    1. Anonymous10:21

      I think their numbers held up because they decreased flights to LJU this winter. Flydubai has a big issue with its fleet. It was reported here.

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    2. Anonymous10:21

      https://www.exyuaviation.com/2024/07/flydubai-warns-of-frequency-cuts-and.html

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    3. Anonymous10:49

      Yep. Last winter they had 11 weekly flights during some peak winter holiday weeks, right now it's still only 7 weekly.

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    4. Anonymous11:04

      They should quickly discontinue DXB-LJU and launch DXB-SKP instead. It'll be bigger success. LOL!

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    5. Anonymous11:18

      @11.04 trolling hight totally unnecessarily

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  11. Anonymous10:23

    I'm a bit surprised by Aegean's loads. Would have expected better numbers considering they only flew during high season.

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  12. Anonymous12:42

    Impressive loads for air baltic.

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  13. Anonymous12:45

    Swiss is the true winner in terms of additional passengers considering it is organic growth.

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  14. Anonymous12:45

    TK with one route while LH with 2 routes

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  15. Anonymous12:46

    UK numbers are really the most disappointing. From number 1 destination a few years ago.

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  16. Anonymous12:55

    After BEG , SKP is second Ex yu airport with most passengers in Slovenia. Impressive 95.4 LF on the route with 55k passengers👏Is this W6 route slowly becoming the one with most high LF from SKP ?

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    1. Anonymous12:57

      I wonder if that is the reason why OU is reducing SKP. I am sure Wizz took a lot of passengers from them.

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    2. Anonymous13:14

      How come wizz has 4 weekly in april from skopje to ljubljana and than again 3 weekly?

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    3. Anonymous13:42

      12:57 OU passengers to ZAG are mostly transfers and point to point, I will not say there is another reason other then fleet issues.
      LJU is different story , SKP passengers there mostly are people who live there , because Macedonia have big diaspora in Slovenia, and alot of students , all our students choose going to study there because of the better education system,affordable costs,small distance to home and after graduating the country giwes them secure work by European standards , instead of losing their time here in Macedonia.And that numbers of students are also huge.

      13.14 its because of their fleet issues , rotating planes and etc ....
      ..this route will be succesfull even 4-5 weekly flights but as we know they still have alot of planes grounded , so they must send the planes to other routes ...

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    4. Anonymous11:57

      13.14. its holiday times both catholic and orthodox

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    5. Anonymous13:56

      We in Slovenia welcome any Macedonians with open hands. You will feel at home here, brothers and sisters.

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  17. Anonymous13:34

    The words busy and Ljubljana are somewhat contradictory.

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    1. Anonymous21:32

      +1

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  18. Anonymous21:32

    Turkish Airlines still growing despite losing the top spot just shows how strong their network is. Their connections via Istanbul are unbeatable for long-haul flights.

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  19. Anonymous21:32

    It would be interesting to compare to 2018 or 2019 to see which markets have completely recovered compared to the Adria era.

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    1. Anonymous22:16

      Connections in Istanbul, Frankfurt, Zurich, Brussels, Warsaw, Belgrade, and Skopje have already surpassed pre-pandemic traffic levels, while routes to Paris and Munich are also close to recovery.

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    2. Anonymous14:42

      No Manchester, or anywhere north of Luton.

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  20. Anonymous21:40

    Wizz Air's high load factor on the Skopje route is impressive. They should consider adding more frequencies or maybe even new routes to the Balkans."

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    1. Anonymous22:04

      If SKP-LJU is amazing and high LF doesnt mean any other route would work the same. The demand for this route is huge and thats why it is very sucesfull.

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    2. Anonymous11:50

      OHD perhaps

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  21. Anonymous21:41

    Luxair at 73% load factor is a decent start, but I wonder if they’ll manage to sustain the route long-term. Luxembourg isn’t exactly a major travel destination from Slovenia.

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    1. Anonymous09:16

      With some subsidy support they will maintain the route for the time being.

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    2. Anonymous13:53

      It is disappointing that they only offer point to point flight and no connections in LUX.

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  22. Anonymous00:39

    It’s disappointing that British Airways didn’t continue their winter flights.

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