easyJet decimates EX-YU network
Low cost carrier easyJet is significantly reducing its operations to cities in the former Yugoslavia over the coming months with some routes to be either discontinued or temporarily suspended. Within the region, the airline maintains winter operations to Pristina, Belgrade, Skopje and Ljubljana, with its flights to Kosovo the only ones to be unaffected. The airline will implement the most cuts out of Belgrade, from which it will be temporarily suspending all of its operations from mid-January until early February. Flights from Basel and Geneva will be put on hiatus for just over two weeks, while services from Berlin will be terminated based on the airline’s existing plans. The last service is scheduled for January 10. The route will continue to be maintained by Air Serbia.
easyJet’s recently launched service between Geneva and Skopje will be temporarily suspended between January 17 and February 4. However, at this point, the budget carrier has not scheduled any flights between the two cities over the 2022 summer season, with the last service set to operate on March 25. Flights are due to return from the 2022/2023 winter season in late October of next year. Further changes remain highly likely. Elsewhere, easyJet will reduce its operations between London Gatwick and Ljubljana to just one flight per week between January 9 and February 11, after which services will grow back to between four and five per week.
easyJet recently announced it was terminating its seasonal summer flights from London Luton, Milan Malpensa and Toulouse to Dubrovnik, while services from Belfast to Split have also been cut. This is on top of the routes that were discontinued earlier this year, which included services from Venice and London Stansted to both Dubrovnik and Split, as well as from Southend to Dubrovnik and Newcastle to Split. easyJet has also cancelled plans to introduce flights from London Luton to Ljubljana. Services were initially scheduled to commence last year but have been constantly delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, easyJet’s sole remaining service to Ljubljana is London Gatwick. This represents a significant retreat for the airline from the Slovenian market, which, prior to the pandemic and following the collapse of Adria Airways in September 2019, was the country’s largest carrier. Last year, easyJet terminated its flights from both London Stansted and Berlin to Ljubljana.
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