I think this is starting to happen yeah. I fly around 4-6 times each year and in previous years, I used foreign airports 95 % of the time. This year I went on six travels and all of those were from LJU. Similar is happening to my friends who travel.

This will be the first year for me since 2019 that I didn't fly from any other airport other than Ljubljana as well

Definitely, not on large scale, but still.

LJU was extremely underserved in the past. We see what happens when you get good management.

I flew 7 times this year. Starting point was always LJU ☺️

Me also. I skip all Venice flights. Now I do most flights from LJU, ZAG is only alternative. For maybe 20% of my flights.

I live in Manchester and was previously flying Ryanair to ZAG. Now I've got EasyJet to LJU, so I choose it every time.

I only use Zagreb for LH flights, because I find that ZAG-AMS-USA flights are about 200€ cheaper compared to LJU-AMS-USA flgiths, with a note that ZAG-AMS is usually done on OU and not on KLM

Ann 12:31 how full are those LJU-MAN flights? I find it a bit odd that EDI wasn't extended in winter season as well

Always full

LJU–MAN:
Nov 25: 69.0%
Dec 25: 83.1%
Jan 26: 69.7%
Feb 26: 79.1%
Mar 26: 84.0%
Apr 26: 86.3%
May 26: 87.8%
Jun 26: 81.5%
Jul 26: 81.0%

LJU–EDI:
Apr 26: 83.0%
May 26: 80.4%
Jun 26: 81.1%
Jul 26: 79.4%

January cuts this year makes sense, EDI is borderline but consistent, will be interesting to see full summer numbers

Meanwhile those load factors are not stellar for a LCC, you should note that easyJet is prioritizing higher spending customers here. Especially during the summer, tickets were often selling for > 250 euro one way. This means the airline is probably still making good profit with the routes, even if loads aren't too high.

@12:32 KLM flights from LJU are so expensive because the flights are always full. This is the LF:

Jan 26: 74.3%
Feb 26: 90.7%
Mar 26: 93.6%
Apr 26: 91.3%
May 26: 94.5%
Jun 26: 92.8%
Jul 26: 88.0%

Wouldn't be surprised if there is some additional increases in the summer next year.

KLM is doing GREAT... Woah

yeah, I am almost certain that easyJet with 2x weekly to AMS would be so very successful, I hope it happens.

They have one-off flight in January. I hope in summer they test the waters and add a few flights. Same goes for Paris

One off flight is aimed at people from the Netherlands coming to watch the football game, so this is completely separate from them actually planning a scheduled service. It does show that they are at least open to serving LJU from AMS tho.

However, I have noticed that their strategy is to open one new route at the start of each new season. First was MAN for the winter 2025/26, then EDI, now LTN and for summer 2027 is Berlin. Maybe we could see another year-round route being launched in the winter 2027/28.

I think once Adria Tehnika is fully taken over we'll see some big moves. Maybe even a stationed jet or two...

well those EDi flights are so so

@12.37 so much for "always full"

To be fair 85% feels full to a normal pax

85 % is 28 empty seats, which is not that visible if you just have one or two quick looks around the cabin and don’t actually count the empty seats.

its only two months when MAN has 85% or more. dont think that a season peak July LF of 81% is really impressive

1.75 is more likely

1.8 mil is pretty much granted, it is also possible that LJU will achieve new all time record this year (1,812,411 in 2018).

In 2025 LJU had 150k pax in Oct, 105k pax in Nov and 101k pax in Dec. If we presume stagnation of pax numbers in the last three months of 2026, that amounts to 1,782 mio pax. However, a growth between 10 and 15 % is pretty much granted with all the increases, which means the final total could be somewhere between 1,817 mio and 1,835 mio pax in 2026. It is gonna be very close to the new record guys! Who would have thought.

Are there any winter increases tho? No Munich, no Riga, less of Dubai... Not sure

Yes but Lh increased capacity on Fankfurt route a lot, also Easyjet is launching 3/4 weekly flights to Luton and AirBaltic to Tenerife so it will be close.

Wizz air 3x weekly to TGD, airBaltic one weekly to TFS, 60 % capacity increase to FRA, Pegasus 3x weekly to SAW, easyJet new 4x weekly to LTN and easyJet increasing frequencies to LGW.

Even more, 2 mio is totally reachable next year with all the planned new services.

Let's wait and see, it will be close in any case. I hope Wizzair soon gets their act together and adds a route or two to Ljubljana

Some time ago there were rumours about Tirana being launched, so it will probably happen.

Certanly won't happen this winter, like Pegasus did the last :D

@10:59 there is a frequent Tirana-lobbyist for such a routing.

I hope JU starts sending the E90 to LJU like they planned before.

@10:59 there is a frequent anti Tirana-lobbyist for such a routing.

TUI schedule is confirmed (BRU 2X weekly 28th March E1/295, DUS 3X weekly 4th May B737). No words about the tender results as of now

They are going strong on the DUS route, good. Any news on when the tickets are gonna go on sale?

DUS is too optimistic

well Eurowings had around 60 % LF on their DUS flights, so I think coupled with holiday offerings the flights could fill up. If not, they can always reduce it to 2x weekly.

Eurowings had terrible departure times too, TUI DUS flights take off at 7 on two days and at 16:45 on one, which is clearly aimed for check in times in Ljubljana

Nice! Where do you get that info? Could you provide us with exact departure/arrival times for each day?

Tuesday & Thursday DUS-LJU: 7:00-8:30 X32754 LJU-DUS: 9:20-11:00 X32755
Friday DUS-LJU: 16:45-18:15 X32754 LJU-DUS: 19:05-20:45 X32755

Thanks!

When was the last time 4 destinations to Germany were served from Ljubljana?

Summer 2018: Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin

Thank you; all on adria?

Berlin was with easyJet, others with Adria.

none of the Eurowings pax will use these services, these are for TUI packages

Rubbish, seat only is being sold too

Where's that guy who was saying that they shortened the flight schedule a week ago? :D

That guy will be happy (or sad) haha.

We now need Stockholm and Helsinki to be year round and that region will be covered greatly

yeah, also CPH should be done with SAS so we have good connections to Oslo and other Scandinavian cities.

Agree. What's really needed is SAS on CPH with good departing times, so you can easily connect to most of scandinavia and vice versa. Norwegian is good, but some of their departures back to LJU are not aimed at connections, with early morning flight, meaning if you wanna go to LJU from OSL, ARN, ... you have to fly in to CPH in the evening for the morning flight to LJU.

Because Slovenia can't market itself as year round destination, while we realistically could to some extent. Postojna, Ljubljana and Bled are all destinations that with some adjustments would work year round

seriously who is going to Bled in February? writing this from Bavaria which has tens of Bled's

well noone is going as of now, but with good marketing it could happen, and even more the Postojna cave & winter resorts.

Kanin is getting 150million € overhoul, ofc you don't market Bled to germans, you market them to Chinese, Americans etc. The golden gem surely is Postojna and Škocjan caves, and winter resorts. Bohinj as well, with premium hotels being built in Kanin, Bohinj and Ljubljana, I think we are slowly swithcing from mass turism to a butique one

Bled is turning into a a Hallstatt overtourisim hell if you are promoting this to Chinese and Americans
"switching from mass toruism" PMSL

You can see the switch in the recent years especially in Ljubljana and Postojna, both leaning towards 5 star hotels, Ljubljana is getting 2 in the next 2 years, while they opened two in the past 5, and Postojna is renovating their 3 star hotel to be upgraded too. It's a switch that Bled will have to wait for a bit more, at least until Grand Hotel Toplice is renovated

Slovenia was never a mass tourism destination. It was always pointed towards botique tourism.

Not forget other parts of Slovenia, for instance Štajerska and Prekmurje, who have great potential for all year tourism (baths) also.

Štajerska and Prekmurje? Really? Apart from baths, which are already doing well, what would you market their to first time visitors? That would surpass the views from Bled, Kranjska Gora or Bovec?

Also to 10:51 - you DON’T have 10s of Bleds in Bavaria. If you think so, you’ve never been to Bled. Or to Bavaria’s ‘Bleds’.

And Bled isn’t turning into ‘overtourism’ hell - it’s empty most of the year!

@16.24 lol. then Bled is the only alpine lake that you have seen

It also shows how much stronger summer numbers can be. There is still a lot of work to be done.

I agree.

I’d say Bravo Slovenia’s tourism sector and economy.

lol economy, look at other exyu airport results

Shocking, 5x times bigger city has 5x times more traffic.

18:56 Can you share (economical) results of other exyu airports? Total revenue and profitability would be enough.

he didnt talk about LJU airport financial report but the country economy. Passengers and country economy in ExYu dont go hand in hand

Še vsaj 10 let ne.