Adria shakes up summer network
Adria Airways is in the process of drafting its 2019 summer network out of Ljubljana with at least nine fewer routes to be operated compared to last year. After announcing the suspension of its Moscow and Dusseldorf service, which were maintained seven and four times per week respectively during the 2018 summer season, the carrier has no plans to resume operations to either Warsaw, Kiev, Brač, Bucharest, Dubrovnik, Geneva or Hamburg. Jointly, the nine routes were served 32 times per week last year. Furthermore, at this stage, the carrier is yet to schedule its two weekly seasonal flights to Tel Aviv, while services to both Copenhagen and Paris will be reduced by one weekly flight.
On the other hand, the Slovenian carrier has said it will increase frequencies between Ljubljana and Munich next summer from double daily to nineteen weekly, while services between Pristina and Frankfurt will see an additional weekly service for a total of eight per week. However, these changes are yet to be reflected in Global Distribution Systems. At this stage, the airline has scheduled an additional weekly flight between Ljubljana and Zurich, and is set to maintain its operations from Paderborn in Germany to both Vienna and Zurich, with four and eleven weekly flights respectively. The Slovenian carrier is also set to maintain nonstop services from Tirana to Frankfurt and Munich.
In a statement, the airline said that changes to its network are taking place as a result of optimisation and available capacity. "We keep in mind our long-term goal, which remains growth, but we want to keep it sustainable and stable and our services reliable and safe", Adria told EX-YU Aviation News. According to local media reports, Adria will further grow its lucrative ACMI business with plans to wet-lease additional aircraft to Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Luxair and Lufthansa during the summer. Furthermore, reports suggest it will continue growing its operations outside of Ljubljana, due to the limited opportunities on the Slovenian market, although the carrier itself has never confirmed such statements.
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