Austrian Airlines will increase flights between Vienna and markets in the former Yugoslavia during the upcoming winter season, which runs from October 26 to March 28. The carrier will extend its summer service to Dubrovnik into November and December, maintaining two weekly flights with its 120-seat Embraer E195 aircraft. Operations will conclude on December 27, before resuming on February 26, 2026.
The Star Alliance member is also boosting its operations to Podgorica. In November and December, the carrier will run nine weekly flights to the Montenegrin capital, up from seven during the same period last winter. From January until the end of the season, services will return to seven weekly, in line with last year’s schedule. Austrian Airlines is also increasing capacity on the Vienna - Sarajevo route, maintaining double daily flights throughout the winter, up from thirteen weekly a year ago.
Elsewhere, Austrian will maintain the same number of flights on its Belgrade service, with the exception of February, when an additional weekly frequency will be introduced for a total of seventeen. As a result, the carrier will operate eighteen weekly flights to the Serbian capital in November and December, sixteen in January, seventeen in February and eighteen again in March.
Austrian’s Zagreb service will operate daily this winter, except for a short period in late January and early February when frequencies will be reduced to six weekly. The carrier’s Pristina operations remain unchanged, with twelve weekly flights in November, December, and March and ten weekly rotations in January and February. Similarly, services to Skopje will stay mostly steady, with eleven weekly flights in November, December and March, and nine weekly rotations in January and February. The February schedule represents a slight decrease compared to last winter’s ten weekly services.
Austrian Airlines two-way capacity during winter 2025/26
And still no Austrian to Ljubljana
ReplyDeleteNo need, we have premium route FRA-LJU 😃
DeleteNo need, because Slovenians would rather drive a car to VIE than fly. Also foreign tourists are using the train connections with transfers in Gradec, the trains on the new connections are fairly full.
DeleteSome tend to forget that people in central Europe have largely ditched flying for train for travel within most of their countries.
DeleteNo they have not- there are flight connections even between vienna and graz , which are much closer to each other than vienna and ljubljana.
DeleteYes, and the prices on the VIE-GRZ are so uncompetitive that most people still prefer to take the train or drive to VIE than fly on the route. The line will be shut down the moment the Semmeringbasistunnel is open for traffic.
DeleteMaybe for p2p, but there are many transfers for which it makes 0 sense to land at vienna and take a train to graz or vice versa.
DeleteApolitical person, but people switching from planes to train is just a green disillusion. If there are flight connections, people would take it
Well, au contraire, it makes much sense, because long distance trains depart from Vienna airport and it can easily be more convenient than flying, if the train is fast enough, as it is now to Linz.
DeleteBut that has nothing to do with Vienna to Ljubljana flights.
LJU - VIE had 62k passenger in 2019. Surely not all of them are using trains all of a sudden. If Austrian would catch half of this traffic it would be good enough.
DeleteMy guess is that most of those moved to LX or LH. After all, we saw how well LX is doing in LJU.
DeleteAlso some who connected via VIE to the Balkans have probably switched to JU.
VIE also used to be a great hub to connect to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Those markets just don't exist for AUA at the moment.
DeleteI agree that ZRH is one of the most important hubs now for LJU. I assume it is a decision in the LH Group. I am sure that VIE would also work well for transfers, but for OS to be competitive with JU for Balkan transfers, it would have to have two daily flights. JU has really good connections to the Balkans, perhaps worst of all to SJJ, where OS is very strong.
DeleteWell, SN has always been treated as an unwanted child by LH, and now OS is increasingly being treated the same way. I don't see them in LJU in a near future.
DeleteAre they still using wet leased ATRs?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteI think OS made a 2.5 or 3 year contract with BRA for the 3 Atr76.
DeleteWhat I find very interesting is that since by the end of October they will end all services from LNZ where one of the planes was permanently based, they will have one more ATR available at VIE. It is possible they start a new route with them, my guess would be NUE or LJU, plus two or three more short sectors per say on existing routes.
They won't start any new routes, they just announced even more routes that switched from E95 to ATR. A lot of flights to Germany and Poland will be switched to the ATR same as all flights to BUD (21x).
DeleteGood to know and good for them, bad for Ljubljana though.
DeleteDo you have a source about the OS Atr Usage in the WTT?
Bravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteMuch smaller cities in poorer ex-yu and non EU countries, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, have 2 or 3 times more OS flights and capacity than Croatia and he is hailing Bravo Hrvatska. Hilarious!!! Svaka budala ima svoje veselje.
DeleteSkopje even with less flights from Zagreb and Prishtina still have more passengers ....so this means their LF is also not so well ....
ReplyDeleteDifferent aircraft.
DeleteHow does it have less flights than Zagreb when it has a daily flight to Zagreb and 11 weekly to Skopje?
DeleteWhat do you mean?
DeleteIt's not passenger numbers in the table it's capacity. Do some of you people even read?? How can someone know passenger numbers for the next winter...
DeleteIt is planned scheduled capacity for the upcoming winter
DeleteSKP is basically an A321 destination for OS.
DeleteYou forget that besides OS, there are daily flights to Vienna by OU from Zagreb
DeleteAdmin do you have info what type of aircraft they schedule for the Skopje route ? thank you
ReplyDeleteI think a daily W6 A321neo from BEG to VIE would shake up that market significantly.
ReplyDeleteNeither OS or JU could compete with their flight costs.
Fingers crossed.
DeleteI miss the Fokkers on this route, now we are stuck with ATRs.
What do you mean you are stuck with ATRs? OS operates 1 out of 3 daily on the ATR. It's mostly a combination of A320 and E95 on the other two.
DeleteVIE announced a reduction in fees so who knows. Maybe Wizz Air introduces BEG-VIE.
OS is two ATRs and one E jet a day now.
DeleteNo it’s not. Only 18:30 departure from BEG is on ATR, other two daily are on E195.
DeleteThe 07.00 departure from BEG sees a mix of E95 and A320.
DeleteThe 11.10 departure is exclusively operated by E95.
BEG - BTS sounds more likely, because W6 just opened base at BTS
DeleteNice to see Austrian extending Dubrovnik flights into December.
ReplyDeleteWish they would the same for SPU with a few weekly E95 or even ATR departures.
DeletePodgorica at 9x weekly in Nov and Dec is a nice boost. But cutting back to daily from January is a shame. Would have been good to keep the extra flights.
ReplyDeleteVienna is such a convenient hub.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteOverall, Austrian clearly sees value in ex-YU markets. Between diaspora, tourism and connections via Vienna, it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteThey used to be much bigger in the region. They used to fly to places like Banja Luka, Mostar... That was back in the day when they were considered an Eastern Europe specialist and they really used the collapse of Yugoslavia to get transfers via VIE.
DeleteThey used to fly to Mostar? I assume that must've been around year 2000 then
DeleteExactly, but on the other hand this strategy brought them to the bring of bankruptsy.
DeleteWell their high costs don't go well with east's low yields.
DeleteI can't belive that Austrian let WizzAir get into VIEPRN.. Wizz started from 2019 with 2 weekly flights to 2025 with 2 daily flights.. Austrian had a monopoly on this destination and it become from the most profitable to the worst destination..
ReplyDeleteHow do you know how profitable that one certain routes for a certain airlines is? It can't be bad (let alone the worst as you claim) since OS still has quite a bit of capacity there, to say the least.
DeleteAustrian has a completely different set of passengers. They carry connecting passengers and business travellers.
DeleteWizz carries masses. And FY, monopoly was broken by Eurowings. Who later gave up to Wizzair.
In a year or you there will be 3 daily flights VIE-PRN, making it a highly profitable Wizz route.
LOL! Everyone knows OS doesn't only carry P2P pax, but you claim it's Austrian's worst route - probably meaning worst performing route. And you obviously don't know a thing how profitable, good or bad or whatever else that route is.
DeleteFurthermore, you criticized OS for "letting" Wizz to start this route. OS is just an airline. You know very well they cannot control their competitors.