New Romania flights planned from Ljubljana


Ljubljana Airport is expected to be linked with Brașov in central Romania, based on a preliminary service filing. Charter operator Luxwing Airlines has tentatively scheduled flights between the two cities from June 23 until the end of the coming winter, although the launch could be pushed back as the service has yet to enter public retail distribution. According to the initial schedule, flights will operate once per week, each Tuesday, with the 78-seat Dash 8 Q400 aircraft. The timings suggest the service is primarily targeting Slovenian tourists travelling to Brașov, located in Transylvania and serving as a gateway for a range of regional tours. Flight BN1500 is scheduled to depart Ljubljana at 11:00 and arrive in Romania at 13:45 local time.

Brașov Airport has previously identified Ljubljana as a target destination, noting that “discussions were underway” regarding the launch of flights between the two cities. Slovenian tour operators offer packages to Transylvania, although these are currently limited to coach tours and overland holiday packages. Luxwing is a Malta-based charter and ACMI operator primarily focused on private and contracted flying, although it also operates charter programmes on behalf of tour operators. In addition, the carrier sells tickets on a number of routes through its website. Its fleet includes three Dash 8 Q400 turboprops, alongside smaller Cessna, Embraer and Beechcraft aircraft.

There are currently no scheduled or regular charter flights between Ljubljana and Romania. The two countries were last directly linked in 2019, when Adria Airways operated services between Ljubljana and Bucharest. As the service has yet to enter public retail distribution and no formal announcement has been made by either the airline or the airports involved, the planned operation should be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Adjustments to the launch date, flight schedule, or the service itself remain possible at this stage.


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  1. Anonymous09:01

    For the love of everything. MAKE SOME TICKETS FOR SALE.

    We desperately need direct connections to Romania. Although Bucharest would be nice

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    1. Anonymous09:03

      Desperate? Rather over the top don't you think.

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    2. Anonymous09:05

      I fly LJU-BEG-OTP route at least twice monthly

      Each flight there's about 20 of us from Slovenia on those flights. The demand is there and I hope Animawings steps up

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    3. Anonymous09:07

      There is a small demand of course. But desperate is hyperbolic language

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    4. Anonymous09:08

      I remember that a few years ago it was published that Bucharest was one of the top unserved destinations from LJU.

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    5. Anonymous09:18

      ^ Me too. And that it is one of Air Serbia's busiest transfer routes from/to LJU.

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    6. Anonymous09:19

      OTP was actually the busiest unserved route after Adria went bust. Don't know if it still the case
      https://www.exyuaviation.com/p/ljubljana-airports-top-unserved-routes.html

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    7. Anonymous09:24

      Romania is a surprisingly underserved market from Ljubljana.

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    8. Anonymous09:25

      Its not served at all

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    9. Anonymous09:47

      Animawings has 10 A220 on order, and they are probably going to be the flag carrier soon. I see them entering the market with 2x weekly flights

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    10. Anonymous12:08

      20 of you flying 2x a month is 50% LF of one single ATR flight.

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  2. Anonymous09:01

    Sounds unrealistic

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  3. Anonymous09:02

    This would certainly be a niche route

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    1. Anonymous09:31

      This is exactly the sort of quirky route Adria would have probably tried at some point :D

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  4. Anonymous09:02

    This will 100% be cancelled before launch.

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  5. Anonymous09:03

    Wow, this is HUGE!

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    1. Anonymous09:04

      Or perhaps its not..

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    2. Anonymous09:15

      What is huge??

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    3. Anonymous09:16

      Nothing about this is huge lol

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    4. Anonymous09:33

      That was sarcastic

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    5. Anonymous09:34

      Hahahah, hard to tell sometimes. Good one.

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    6. Anonymous09:39

      I would take anything I could get if I was LJU.

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    7. Anonymous09:42

      Thats rather sad

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  6. Anonymous09:09

    Would make sense for tourists since bus transport is quite long.

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  7. Anonymous09:09

    This could very well mean a greater Luxwings presence in LJU... are we sure it's just Brasov?

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    1. Anonymous09:14

      Are you confusing it with Luxair?

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    2. Anonymous09:18

      No Luxair base is in Malta, or during the summer in Innsbruck. Doesn't make sense for them to fly empty from Malta to Ljubljana. So if this goes ahead I would expect Malta to be operated as scheduled flight too. Similar to what Universal Air did with Pecs - Munich flights, where they sold the Malta leg too

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    3. Anonymous09:21

      This isnt gonna turn into anything.

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  8. Anonymous09:11

    Hey admin the search isn't working

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  9. Anonymous09:23

    This would be kind of cool

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  10. Anonymous09:24

    Brașov is actually a clever choice. Transylvania has strong tourism appeal and Ljubljana doesn’t really have many unusual leisure charter options anymore.

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    1. Anonymous10:17

      Brasov is easily the most beautiful town there along with Sibiu and Sighisoara.

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    2. crveni_orao11:48

      To be honest, Brašov is as close to Slovenia as it can be. I don't see anything you can see there that you can't in Slovenia.

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    3. Anonymous13:05

      I was going to say. It looks remarkably similar.

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  11. Anonymous09:25

    Transylvania is beautiful, but will Slovenians really fly there instead of just driving?

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    1. Anonymous09:26

      Its a tall order. And this isnt a scheduled airline. Its all gonna come to nothing

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    2. Anonymous09:49

      It is, they operate many PSO flights in Italy

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    3. Anonymous09:58

      The drive is like 12-14 hours, longer than to Tivat or Brussels

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  12. Anonymous09:25

    Ljubljana needs any new flights it can get, even if charter. Passenger growth has been painfully slow.

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  13. Anonymous09:25

    If this actually launches, Adria’s old Ljubljana-Bucharest route being the last Romania link shows just how much connectivity LJU lost over the years.

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  14. Anonymous09:26

    Could also work the other way around. Bled/Ljubljana could be attractive for Romanian tourists.

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    1. Anonymous09:29

      It could. But I don't think there is a market for it from Brasov of all places.

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    2. Anonymous09:31

      Romanians often stop in Bled and LJ by car. I dont see this anything serious. Hardly worth any attention

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  15. Anonymous09:30

    Dash 8 is the right aircraft for something like this.

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  16. Anonymous09:32

    Does anyone even fly to Brasov?

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    1. Anonymous09:33

      Yes. Wizz Air has several routes and there are a lot of charters. The airport opened just 2 years ago.

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    2. Anonymous09:33

      Yes from
      Italy and western europe. Not with a dash 8 from Slovenia. Just bizarre and nonsense

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    3. Anonymous09:40

      ^ calm down.

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    4. Anonymous10:38

      There are a lot of tourists from Germany, Italy, Poland, Moldova, Israel n these parts of Romania, ski resorts, Dracula, cities with history and a lot of villages with guest houses. Wizz flies and from polish airports to Bucharest and Brasov with tourists traveling to this region.

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    5. Anonymous13:06

      Yep. But lets face it Warsaw is larger than Slovenia. Different markets totally.

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  17. Anonymous09:40

    Wildest route announcement in Slovenia since Skyalps announced Maribor-Bolzano flights

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  18. Anonymous09:41

    This news would be nonsense, but this changes things "Brașov Airport has previously identified Ljubljana as a target destination, noting that “discussions were underway” regarding the launch of flights between the two cities."

    I could see them try, but I'm not sure about the success of it at the end

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  19. Anonymous09:45

    Who knows, maybe they applied for Slovenian subsidies. Maybe they launch something in addition to Brasov.

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    1. Anonymous09:48

      They don't have operating bases anywhere near Ljubljana or Brasov, so I would expect, if this does go ahead (I don't think it will) they will introduce at least one new destination, and as someone above said Malta as their base makes sense

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  20. Anonymous09:59

    Yet another very "attractive" line to connect LJ. 😂🤦‍♂️

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    1. Anonymous10:12

      can it stop off on Bolzano on route?

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    2. Anonymous10:26

      And Rijeka

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  21. Anonymous10:23

    Bizarre.

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  22. Anonymous11:01

    To fill a Q400 on this route is quite "unbelievable", that there is demand from LJU to various Romanian cities that's for sure. JU and BEG are the more logical solution to aggregate and distrubute the traffic from Slovenia and Croatia toward Romania.

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    1. Anonymous11:04

      There are no flights from BEG to "various Romanian cities".

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    2. Anonymous11:12

      I don't know much of Romania, but people here are saying there's more than Bucharest for couple of years now. DBV got Cluj link, LJU is looking at Brasov, it looks like it's about time for JU to step in...

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    3. Anonymous11:15

      Article is not about JU but about flights between Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Brasov.

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    4. Anonymous11:16

      Yes, and we are wondering here on the regional portal if there is some cake in Brasov for other regional airlines and airports, namely BEG and JU.

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    5. Anonymous11:22

      But you wonder that on every single JU article. On each one there is a discussion about JU in Romania. Leave this one be.

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    6. Anonymous11:26

      OK, no problem, why not

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    7. Anonymous13:06

      @11:22 +1

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  23. Anonymous11:04

    Would love to see this happen

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  24. Anonymous11:24

    Was not on my bingo card but who knows, maybe there is some demand

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    1. Anonymous13:08

      There is not demand for Brașov. Bucharest with Wizzair twice weekly would be a solid route. But not this rather opaque airline

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