Ljubljana Airport expects to keep most routes
Ljubljana Airport’s operator Fraport is hopeful that most airlines will resume their services to the Slovenian capital once the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic eases. However, it warns that the impact on the aviation industry as a whole will be “enormous”. “Fraport anticipates for all of the destinations announced in the summer timetable to be kept, but it is unknown to what extent and when carriers will actually start flying", the operator said. It added that the majority of airlines have cancelled their flights to Ljubljana for the whole of April, while Finnair, which maintains seasonal services from Helsinki to Slovenia, has suspended the route up to and including most of June.
Ljubljana Airport is currently closed for commercial traffic. Services from European Union-member states are cancelled until April 27, although this restriction may be extended for a further two weeks, depending on the health situation. Commercial flights from outside the block are banned until further notice. "We expect for a gradual recovery in traffic and hope that after the restrictions are lifted, a timetable will be compiled as soon as possible, both in terms of the number of destinations and frequencies", Fraport explained. The Slovenian government has outlined plans to begin easing certain kerbs as of next week, as the epidemic is believed to be under control in the country, thus allowing public life to gradually resume.
Several airlines have initially planned to introduce new routes to Ljubljana this summer. These include easyJet from London Luton, Israir from Tel Aviv, Windrose Airlines from Kiev and Iberia from Madrid. At this point, all are planned to go ahead although this is likely to change. Furthermore, the majority of airlines serving the Slovenian capital were to boost their frequencies over the summer. Despite the new arrivals, and under the premise that all services planned for the remainder of the summer materialise, Ljubljana Airport’s capacity will still be nearly 45% lower than before the collapse of Adria Airways last year.
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