Windrose Airlines to launch Ljubljana service in 2022
Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines plans to commence operations between Kiev and Ljubljana at the start of 2022 summer season. The service will initially operate once per week, each Saturday starting April 2, before increasing to two weekly rotations from April 26. Tickets are yet to be put on sale. The Ukrainian carrier also had plans to launch operations between the two cities last year, but cancelled them as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Windrose has grown throughout the former Yugoslavia during the global health emergency, introducing new flights to Belgrade, Podgorica, Skopje and Zagreb, all of which are maintained on a year-round basis. The airline is primarily utilising the 49-seat Embraer 145 jet on its operations to the former Yugoslav republics but does deploy the 78-seat ATR72 turboprop on occasion. These aircraft, with limited capacity, are believed to be ideal for such new routes.
Based on OAG data, in the pre-pandemic 2019, a total of 10.068 passengers flew indirectly between Kiev and Ljubljana, making it the fourth busiest unserved route from the Slovenian capital that year. However, during last year, with the majority of Ukrainian citizens banned from entering the European Union, just 444 passengers travelled on a single itinerary between Kiev and Ljubljana. In 2019, Turkish Airlines accounted for the majority of transfers between the two capitals, holding a market share of 32%. It was followed by LOT Polish Airlines and Adria Airways, the latter shuttling passengers to Lufthansa group hubs such as Frankfurt, Vienna and Munich who then continued onwards to Kiev.
Top transfer airlines for Kiev - Ljubljana - Kiev service in 2019
Top transfer airports for Kiev - Ljubljana - Kiev service in 2019
Windrose Airlines had plans to serve Ljubljana on several occasions. 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. It is believed Windrose would be successful on the Ljubljana service due to the high volume of travellers flying between the two cities under normal circumstances, as well as the carrier’s ability to transfer passengers with short connecting times via Kiev onto its domestic network, which includes cities such as Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odessa.
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