More carriers suspend Ljubljana operations
Airlines have continued to reduce their flights to Ljubljana as a result of the coronavirus pandemic with the Slovenian capital to be served by just six carriers as of next week, which will maintain six scheduled routes. As a result, Ljubljana will offer the fewest scheduled destinations among capital cities in the former Yugoslavia, behind Sarajevo. Currently, only Air France, Air Serbia, easyJet, Lufthansa, Montenegro Airlines and Turkish Airlines fly to the Slovenian capital. Out of the six countries served, only travellers from two are listed on Slovenia’s green list, deemed epidemiologically safe for entry - Germany and the United Kingdom - two are from the yellow list -France and Serbia - and the remainder are on the red list- Montenegro and Turkey. Each list carries with it a different set of entry requirements. Prior to the pandemic, seventeen carriers had planned to run flights to 22 scheduled destinations from Ljubljana this summer.
Wizz Air, which turned its Charleroi - Ljubljana route into a seasonal summer service and was to run the flights until late October, has terminated its operations over a month earlier than planned. Wizz Air now intends on returning to the Slovenian capital on March 30, 2021. Furthermore, after just a few weeks of operations, easyJet is suspending its flights between Berlin and Ljubljana, with the last flight of the year planned for this Sunday. As a result, easyJet will only fly from London to Ljubljana, while its Berlin service will be restored on March 26, 2021. Finally, low cost carrier Transavia, which temporarily suspended operations between Amsterdam and the Slovenian capital on September 13 with plans to resume the service on October 29, has now completely shelved flights between the two cities for the rest of the year. The Air France - KLM subsidiary now intends on restoring operations to the Slovenian capital on January 14, 2021. On the other hand, following a temporary suspension, LOT Polish Airlines and Brussels Airlines are expected to resume flights to Ljubljana from late October, although both carriers are yet to finalise their schedules and changes remain possible.
Commenting on its existing operations, Ljubljana Airport said, "There will be no significant improvement in the situation in the near future due to the Covid-19 pandemic - neither in our country nor elsewhere in Europe. Today, it is already evident that operations will increase more significantly only when the epidemiological situation calms down everywhere and when there are no more daily changes in entry conditions imposed by individual countries (for example quarantine). When this will happen remains unpredictable. We all hope that things will start to normalise in the spring and that new (additional) flights will follow”.
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