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Slovenia and Japan have taken steps to strengthen bilateral ties with a focus on aviation connectivity. During an official visit to Tokyo yesterday, Slovenia’s Economy Minister Matjaž Han met with Isato Kunisada, Parliamentary Vice-Minister at Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The two sides discussed the possibility of enhancing direct air links between the countries, with the Slovenian government aiming to restore long-haul services and meet Japan’s growing interest in boosting tourism and business travel to Central Europe.
Ljubljana Airport previously handled charter flights from Japan, most recently in 2019, when Japanese carrier ANA operated two flights from Tokyo to the Slovenian capital with its Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
I think once weekly flight with cooperation of agencies offering Slovenia and Croatia packages would work...but let's get back those charters back first. I remember ANA and JAL landing a few years ago
ReplyDeleteNo one, want to fly from Japan just to visit Croatia and Slovenia. Maybe Venice, Vienna etc
DeleteI remember charters with Jal b777 on th route Tokyo-Sofia-Dubrovnik 2012.
DeleteAnon 10:58 There are many. Before COVID there were groups traveling from Ljubljana to Dubrovnik and other groups in opposite direction. Charters were organized from Japan to LJU and DBV to drop/pick up those groups.
Delete0,5 weekly would work with the current japan hype in Slovenia and the inbound demand but this would be more or less useless for bussines travel
DeleteSuch a small market for long haul to Japan have no sense at all
Deleteisn't there an article like this every year?
ReplyDeleteEvery other year. One year Japan, other year China. And leap year Qatar.
DeleteThat's a tourist travel at the Expo and some main attractions. This meeting is out of courtesy to make it look like "job" with taxpayers money used. So many official delegations from Slovenia to Japan this year, mostly tourism but tagged as business.
DeleteAye, two flights six years ago can definitely lead to direct flights 😂😂
ReplyDeleteBefore covid, ANA and JAL operated between 8 and 12 rotations per year.
DeleteFor what it's worth, they had 15+ charter rotations per year between Tokyo and Ljubljana in 2016, so that's probs step 1
Deleteomg please..
ReplyDeleteIsn't it more necessary to get better connectivity to the Europe and Mediteranian regions than dreaming about far East?
ReplyDelete>connectivity
Delete>Mediterranean
Yes, 2x weekly Ryanair flights to Bari or Alicante will greatly improve connectivity.
If Bari and Alicante is all about Mediterranian region(s) for you then you missed many things during geography lessons.
DeleteDoesn't matter, does it? It can also be Tripoli or Benghazi as far as I'm concerned but this idea of "connectivity" does not go well together with leisure destinations.
DeleteI think that these talks never materialise, not just in Slovenia, but anywhere.
ReplyDeleteIf someone had told me a year ago Podgorica would have direct flights to Tashkent and negotiations existing between Ljubljana and Tokyo, I would've laughed
ReplyDeleteThey dont have direct flights to Tashkent.
DeleteYou probably mean direct flights to Astana.
They do
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/06/uzbekistans-flykhiva-to-enter-ex-yu.html