Windrose to launch Ljubljana service
Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines will go ahead with the launch of its Kiev – Ljubljana service this winter season following several cancellations. During the week, the carrier announced that flights would commence on October 24 and run twice per week, each Tuesday and Saturday, with a mix of ATR72-600 and Embraer E145 aircraft, which have the capacity to seat 78 and 49 passengers respectively. “From October 1, Ukrainians can enter Slovenia without going into ten days of self-isolation with a negative PCR test no older than 48 hours. Windrose will offer convenient transfer to Ljubljana from Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odessa with a short connection in [Kiev] Boryspil”, the carrier said.
Windrose had initially planned to launch flights to Ljubljana in April but they were delayed on several occasions due to the coronavirus pandemic before being completely shelved. Services were rescheduled for late October and put on sale this Thursday. The development comes just a week after Windrose commenced flights to Zagreb. The new Ljubljana service will mark the resumption of operations between the Ukrainian and Slovenian capitals following a two-year hiatus. Windrose will become the first carrier to launch a new service to Ljubljana since Lufthansa in October of last year.
Windrose Airlines had plans to serve Ljubljana in the past. In the winter of 2018/19, it intended on introducing a three weekly service 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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