Windrose to launch flights to Zagreb and Ljubljana
Ukraine's Windrose Airlines will commence scheduled services from Kiev to both Ljubljana and Zagreb this summer season. The flights will mark the resumption of operations between the Ukrainian and Slovenian capitals following an almost two-year hiatus and the first nonstop service between Kiev and Zagreb since the 1980s. Services to Ljubljana will launch on April 30 and run twice per week, each Tuesday and Sunday, while operations to the Croatian capital will be maintained three times per week, each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, starting June 2. Both are currently set to run on a seasonal summer basis, until the end October, but may be extended depending on performance. The fifty-seat Embraer E145 jet, operated by Dniproavia, which was absorbed by Windrose in 2017, will be used on both routes.
Previously, Croatia Airlines considered introducing services from Zagreb to Ukraine in 2009, however, ultimately decided against the move. In 2018, Ukraine International Airlines announced its intention to inaugurate flights from Kiev to the Croatian capital in 2020, but the airline has not scheduled the route. Based on traffic flow, unserved European destinations which have been identified by Zagreb Airport as having the potential to sustain direct flights include Kiev, Basel, Geneva, Riga and Sofia. Ukrainian carriers have so far maintained seasonal summer flights from Kiev to the Croatian coast. Aeroflot last flew nonstop between the two cities prior to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. Further flight details for the new Zagreb service can be found here.
Windrose Airlines had plans to serve Ljubljana in the past. Last winter it intended on introducing three weekly services to the Slovenian capital, but the flights never materialised. This was preceded by plans to inaugurate flights between the two cities in mid-December 2017, which also never came to fruition. The Ukrainian carrier had operated summer charters to Maribor in the past. Ljubljana and Kiev were last linked with a nonstop air service in October 2018 when Adria Airways discontinued the route after less than a year of operations, along with several others. Further flight details for Windrose’s new Ljubljana service can be found here.
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