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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ReplyDeleteWe desperately need direct connections to Romania. Although Bucharest would be nice
Desperate? Rather over the top don't you think.
DeleteI fly LJU-BEG-OTP route at least twice monthly
DeleteEach flight there's about 20 of us from Slovenia on those flights. The demand is there and I hope Animawings steps up
There is a small demand of course. But desperate is hyperbolic language
DeleteI remember that a few years ago it was published that Bucharest was one of the top unserved destinations from LJU.
Delete^ Me too. And that it is one of Air Serbia's busiest transfer routes from/to LJU.
DeleteOTP was actually the busiest unserved route after Adria went bust. Don't know if it still the case
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/p/ljubljana-airports-top-unserved-routes.html
Romania is a surprisingly underserved market from Ljubljana.
DeleteIts not served at all
DeleteAnimawings 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
Delete20 of you flying 2x a month is 50% LF of one single ATR flight.
DeleteYou do realise that there are people flying with other combinations to OTP, that a nonstop service generates new demand that did not exist before etc. Anyway someone linked that OTP was actually Ljubljana's busiest unserved route a few years ago.
Deleteanon@17:28 he knows it and he understands it but he is paid for sharing the opposite narrative.
DeletePaid by whom?
DeleteSounds unrealistic
ReplyDeleteThis would certainly be a niche route
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the sort of quirky route Adria would have probably tried at some point :D
DeleteThis will 100% be cancelled before launch.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is HUGE!
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps its not..
DeleteWhat is huge??
DeleteNothing about this is huge lol
DeleteThat was sarcastic
DeleteHahahah, hard to tell sometimes. Good one.
DeleteI would take anything I could get if I was LJU.
DeleteThats rather sad
DeleteWould make sense for tourists since bus transport is quite long.
ReplyDeleteThis could very well mean a greater Luxwings presence in LJU... are we sure it's just Brasov?
ReplyDeleteAre you confusing it with Luxair?
DeleteNo 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
DeleteThis isnt gonna turn into anything.
DeleteHey admin the search isn't working
ReplyDeleteIssue should be fixed now
DeleteThis would be kind of cool
ReplyDeleteBrașov is actually a clever choice. Transylvania has strong tourism appeal and Ljubljana doesn’t really have many unusual leisure charter options anymore.
ReplyDeleteBrasov is easily the most beautiful town there along with Sibiu and Sighisoara.
DeleteTo 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.
DeleteI was going to say. It looks remarkably similar.
DeleteFirst of all, it's a vacation in a foreign land that's cheaper than Slovenia, you can rest. Then you can see more castles than in Slovenia, eat different food. Yes the altitude and nature are very similar, but does that prevent people from traveling to other places with Austro-Hungarian architecture? Not really, it's just one reason why people travel.
DeleteWell obviously. But do the economics of a flight work? Highly highly unlikely unless it was a charter for organised tours.
DeleteTransylvania is beautiful, but will Slovenians really fly there instead of just driving?
ReplyDeleteIts a tall order. And this isnt a scheduled airline. Its all gonna come to nothing
DeleteIt is, they operate many PSO flights in Italy
DeleteThe drive is like 12-14 hours, longer than to Tivat or Brussels
DeleteLjubljana needs any new flights it can get, even if charter. Passenger growth has been painfully slow.
ReplyDeleteCould not agree more
DeleteIf this actually launches, Adria’s old Ljubljana-Bucharest route being the last Romania link shows just how much connectivity LJU lost over the years.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteCould also work the other way around. Bled/Ljubljana could be attractive for Romanian tourists.
ReplyDeleteIt could. But I don't think there is a market for it from Brasov of all places.
DeleteRomanians often stop in Bled and LJ by car. I dont see this anything serious. Hardly worth any attention
DeleteDash 8 is the right aircraft for something like this.
ReplyDeleteMore like a cessna.
DeleteDoes anyone even fly to Brasov?
ReplyDeleteYes. Wizz Air has several routes and there are a lot of charters. The airport opened just 2 years ago.
DeleteYes from
DeleteItaly and western europe. Not with a dash 8 from Slovenia. Just bizarre and nonsense
^ calm down.
DeleteThere 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.
DeleteYep. But lets face it Warsaw is larger than Slovenia. Different markets totally.
DeleteWildest route announcement in Slovenia since Skyalps announced Maribor-Bolzano flights
ReplyDelete:D
DeleteThis 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."
ReplyDeleteI could see them try, but I'm not sure about the success of it at the end
+1
DeleteWho knows, maybe they applied for Slovenian subsidies. Maybe they launch something in addition to Brasov.
ReplyDeleteThey 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
DeleteThey are opening a base in Italy next month
DeleteYet another very "attractive" line to connect LJ. 😂🤦♂️
ReplyDeletecan it stop off on Bolzano on route?
DeleteAnd Rijeka
DeleteBizarre.
ReplyDeleteTo 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.
ReplyDeleteThere are no flights from BEG to "various Romanian cities".
DeleteI 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...
DeleteArticle is not about JU but about flights between Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Brasov.
DeleteYes, 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.
DeleteBut you wonder that on every single JU article. On each one there is a discussion about JU in Romania. Leave this one be.
DeleteOK, no problem, why not
Delete@11:22 +1
DeleteWould love to see this happen
ReplyDeleteWas not on my bingo card but who knows, maybe there is some demand
ReplyDeleteThere is not demand for Brașov. Bucharest with Wizzair twice weekly would be a solid route. But not this rather opaque airline
DeleteIt's a weekly charter for tour groups to visit Transylvania. So there probably is enough demand to fill more than half of the Dash once per week.
DeleteLjubljana needs more links to southeast and eastern europe.
ReplyDeleteCould not agree more. And there is surprsingly lots of demand.
DeleteWell if there is demand that airlines can turn into profit routes will develop. Thats how the market works
DeleteNot always necesserily true. Many airlines overlook certain markets even if they can make money. It took KLM how many decades to start flying to Ljubljana? You can't possibly tell me that conditions for a profitable operation were only met last year.
DeleteLuxwings is launching a lot of flights from Italy next month, so this could somehow be tied with it.
ReplyDeleteAre they operating it for some tour opeartor or it's their own flights.
DeleteHard to believe there are zero Romania flights right now.
DeleteThere are 0 flights from Ljubljana to many major European markets.
DeleteLuxwing? Had to Google them. Not exactly a household name. Hopefully more reliable than some of the obscure operators we’ve seen before.
ReplyDeleteWhich other 'obscure' operators have flown to Ljublana in the past?
DeleteHonestly a much more interesting destination than a generic German regional airport.
ReplyDeleteInteresting does not = passengers willing to pay for it
DeleteIf it's a charter service it means passengers are willing to pay for it. That's why it is being set up.
DeleteWhen this fails, Fraport will rush to explain us how there is no demand from LJU. Brasov as a bullet proof argument.
ReplyDeleteAnd as welcome gift their flight attendants hand you over garlic garlands..
ReplyDeleteHuh?
DeleteTo stop the Vampires. I guess they meant that as a joke
DeleteI doubt this will materilize
ReplyDeleteOf course it wont
DeleteOnce a week like Priština.
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