NEWS FLASH
Lufthansa will reduce frequencies on flights from Munich and Frankfurt to Ljubljana during part of the upcoming 2025/26 winter season. From December 2025, until late February 2026, the airline will maintain daily flights between Munich and the Slovenian capital, down from ten weekly last year. The reduction on the Frankfurt - Ljubljana service will be limited to January only, during which the German flag carrier will run twelve weekly flights, down from fourteen weekly. Further changes at this early stage remain possible.
First SKP, now LJU... who is next?
ReplyDeleteAll markets with weak passenger demand.
DeleteSame as SKP - they are clearly seeing weak numbers those months.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the same because SKP will have 0 rights while LJU will have 21 weekly.
Delete*flights
DeleteMacedonia traveling public has voted with their wallets. They would rather pay for a great service with TK than an overpriced LCC service with LH.
Deleteseznajko @10.57
DeleteBravo Fraport!
ReplyDeleteI thought Fraport and LH were the same and were only interested in helping LH get a bigger share of LJU traffic?
DeleteThey will do everything not to reach 2 mio pax. Getting to 2mio would mean opening the ground handling service to other providers. Not happening.
DeleteHopefully the LX will maintain two daily flights.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Ljubljana can't maintain proper frequencies to major hubs is so disappointing
ReplyDeleteSeveral factors:
DeleteSlovenes travel less during that period or can not afford 3-4 travels a year or they go ski
Not much ethnic traffic
Foreign tourists prefer SLO from March till October often in combi with the Adriatic coast. European travellers during that period prefer Egypt, DXB, BKK, Caribbean, Canary Islands etc
SLO foreign major trade is within car distance as main trade partners after Switzerland are South Germany, Italy, Croatia and Austria.
Don’t forget to mention that many of them rather fly from ZAG with LH… that’s why they put a320 there and have lower prices but in LJU we have crj900 with less seats which means higher prices and “less” demand in LJU
DeleteLufthansa is actually boosting ZAG this winter
Delete^ it isn't.
DeleteAnon, 12:25, he/she didn't forget that many fly LH from ZAG (because of lower prices), but it didn't quite fit the narrative that Slovenes travel to the Caribbean in winter
DeleteTo be fair, most of the Munich flights are scheduled on AirDolomiti E195, so in total the capacity is the same
ReplyDeleteWhat were they using this year?
DeleteMostly A319
DeleteIt was CRJs apart from in March
DeleteI was flying on an evening flight LJU-MUC in late january, it was with CRJ and there was only 11 passangers.
DeleteYou were lucky!
DeleteLX is reducing its early morning departure mid Jan until early February too.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought they performed wonderfully in LJU?!
DeleteLX already reduced flights in Jan 2025. They do this also for other destinations. In general, people travel less by air mid January until early March. Ski season and people spend big money as ski vacations are def not cheap
DeleteI think Lufthansa does not care since most passengers switched to LX.
ReplyDeleteIs KLM hurting them?
ReplyDeleteI hope so.
DeleteClassic Ex-Yu mentality from 12:05.
DeleteWinter is coming for many but it seems like it has arrived for Lufthansa. Major cuts all around, this is definitely cause for concern. FRA will be butchered this winter.
ReplyDeletewow "butchered"
DeleteAnd they will continue to lose passengers and frequencies, and not only within ex-yu. Flew AMM to FRA (and on to ZAG) with LH. One way economy ticket +700 euro. Plane was A321. Delayed so I almost missed my connection and missed nerves running through FRA to catch it. Never sat on such hard and uncomfortable seat, like wooden, with so small pitch. On 4 hours flight were oferred drink ONCE. Sandwich was also served- completely FROZEN, so the option was not to have it or to have your tooth broken. Cabin crew was so "posh", "elite", "noble" and "on level " that it was more than pathetic and actually hilarious. Therefore, never again with them!
DeleteWow that is worse than FR!
DeleteThey might know something we don’t. Fraport speculating some other airlines will come.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell? Because of weak season reductions that have already been in place since ever?
DeleteWhat are all the people here on? These are exactly the same weak season (JAN-FEB) reductions that have happened every winter season and people are being dramatic over 3 lost CRJ-900 frequencies to Munich over the course of nothing but 8 weeks.
ReplyDeleteThey were not this big, the reductions that is
DeleteYou lot here are crazy, it's getting more and more obvious that OU is taking over FRA nad ZRH route, so the schdule is being adjusted to a minimal viable one. Once OU enteres with those flights, everyone will be rebooked to those OU flights, and if OU bails out, they'll have options to add flights/capacity.
ReplyDeleteMUC on the other hand is getting an increase of capacity, as they were already filling A319 in late winter months this year.
How realisitc is OU actually starting any flights to Ljubljana?
DeleteThis winter? Totally unrealistic.
DeleteOU is either coming this winter or not coming at all
DeleteDoes OU use full altea dcs for pax ckin?
DeleteOU is a done deal especially since more A220 are taking over in ZAG
DeleteOU could only do this with a leased aircraft and crew. OU is having enormous problems with the transition to the new A220 aircraft and the appropriate retraining of pilots. Given the plan to gradually retire old aircraft as new ones arrive, it will not have any spare aircraft at its disposal.
DeleteLufthansa cancelled agreement with city jet..so it might be cause they dont have enough aircrafts
ReplyDeleteFrom when?
DeleteFrom the end of this year. And it is nit a cancellation. "It's important to note that Lufthansa did not "cancel" the agreement. The agreement was simply ending, as part of a strategic decision by Lufthansa."
DeleteSo thats why they are not able to send any smaller plane to SKP and decide to not fly for 2 months in winter...
DeleteGood. No one should fly from Slovenia to Germany. Take the train, think of the environment.
ReplyDeleteOh lord
Delete12:53 I hope you have plugged your @hole because that methane is bad for the environment too!
DeleteWill do so after SLO did its homework and have trains running at 160 km/h throughout the country. Everything else will remain a dream, until maybe in 2060 high speed trains from Venice to Vienna or Budapest run through the country at speed of 280 km/h.
DeleteLJU-MUC I hardly doubt there will be high speed links still within this century