Slovenia's enduring appeal with Italian tourists has driven demand for a raft of new Adria Airways-operated charter services, linking Bari, Naples and Palermo with Ljubljana's Brnik hub. The roster of flights is slated to continue until the end of 2015 with the promise of additional services earmarked for next year during lucrative bank holiday periods.Operated…
Ljubljana Airport: strong 2015 numbers underpinned by increased winter schedule
A 20% increase in services operating within Ljubljana Airport's 2015/16 winter timetable translates to a roster in excess of 180 weekly scheduled flights, an itinerary overseen by eight airlines including flag carrier Adria Airways.Adria's commitment to its raft of scheduled and charter services will though surely be contingent on receiving the reported €8 million of…
Adria Airways: will the need for recapitalisation deter would-be suitors?
Recapitalization seen by Adria Airways as vital for its continued presence in the skies throws into considerable doubt the viability of the ongoing bidding process for 91.58% of the Slovenian flag carrier. Having identified a figure of €8 million to maintain services through the traditionally fallow winter season the state restructuring company Slovenian Sovereign Holding(SSH)…
Ljubljana Airport: Brnik experiencing continued passenger growth
Like for like figures highlighting a 10.1% spike in passenger footfall during September through Ljubljana's Brnik Aerodrome translated into over 157,000 travellers using 3,183 flights, itself a 14.6% climb in services exiting and entering Slovenia through its primary, Fraport-owned airport.Over the nine month period to the end of September Brnik welcomed in excess of 1.13…
Adria Airways 2015/16 winter schedule
The numerous problems surrounding Adria Airways haven't prevented it honouring a winter schedule that sees few changes to its 2014/15 timetable, other than to increase the frequency of services between Ljubljana and Paris and a ninth weekly flight between Slovenia and Tirana, the Albanian capital.Adria also operate flights from the Kosovan capital Pristina where its…
Adria Airways: Intro Aviation joins race to acquire the Slovenian flag carrier
An invitation to bid for 91.58% of the state-owned Adria Airways has attracted several parties interested in the Slovenian flag carrier who hope to have new owners in a matter of months. The airline has though been here before three years ago when an ultimately aborted sale process failed to secure a purchaser, resulting in…
Adria Airways: Southend route ends as timetabled; CRJ200 jet to be removed from service
The reinstatement of services operated by Adria Airways from Maribor's Edvard Rusjan Airport after a fifteen year hiatus have in the last few days come to a scheduled halt, its four month service connecting Slovenia's east with the Essex-based London Southend ended on September 29th. Thrice weekly flights linking Maribor with a southeastern airport chosen for…
Adria Airways: and then there were eleven?
With a fleet of twelve aircraft at its disposal this summer, Adria Airways has maintained a commitment to its existing route schedule and furthermore added services from Lodz and the eastern Slovenian city of Maribor. At first sight the evidence therefore points to a relatively healthy airline, indeed, passenger uptake has increased, heavily contributing to…
Ljubljana Airport hits the one million passenger mark
In all sectors and areas of life statistics have the ability to spin whatever message those who commission their publication wish. Whilst the numerical size of passenger numbers in the aviational field merely serve as window-dressing for vital positive exposure in a notoriously volatile sector, a modest year on year increase should be taken in…
Maribor Airport: negotiations ongoing with Wizz Air
Whilst Slovenia, the aviation world and the shareholders of Maribor Airport continue to wait for a formal announcement from flag-carrier Adria Airways regarding its future plans, if any, to develop services from Edvard Rusjan aerodrome or curtail them altogether, news of a possible deal between the Delavska hranilnica-majority owned facility and Hungarian budget operator Wizz…
Adria Airways set to announce future Maribor Airport plans
Adria Airways' long awaited decision regarding its operations from Maribor's Edvard Rusjan Airport has yet to be revealed, the overdue announcement seemingly allied to the future plans for its existing Maribor to London Southend route. A statement has for a while been expected as to whether Slovenia's flag carrier intends to extend the operational period…
Ljubljana Airport passenger numbers once more overtake Skopje
A resurgent Ljubljana Airport has regained its traditional hold over Skopje's Alexander the Great aerodrome, overtaking the Macedonian capital's facility after lagging behind during the first six months of 2015. Whilst all the indicators of passenger uptake in relation to aircraft capacity, overall footfall and net profit point to an ongoing upward trend, data for…
Adria Airways set to enhance passenger in-flight experience
In an unexpected move Slovenian flag-carrier Adria Airways are set to unveil some form of in-flight entertainment to enhance its on board passenger experience. Since the airline adopted a business model predicated on slashing costs and removing the complimentary element of its on board catering Adria has in many ways taken on the persona of…
Adria Airways: bids for airline expected during the next month
Slovenian flag-carrier Adria Airways continues to hoist 'business as usual' banners amid a backdrop of ongoing uncertainty regarding its future ownership. Recent data supplied by the airline suggests a 15% year on year increase in passenger numbers compared to figures for the first six months of 2014, equating to nearly 550,000 travellers being handled primarily…
Ljubljana Airport: Star Alliance members heavily contribute to Brnik’s passenger growth
Star Alliance member airlines are fueling the current resurgence in traffic at Ljubljana's Brnik Aerodrome, the route operated by Turkish Airlines between Istanbul and the Slovenia capital somewhat improbably accounting for a year on year increase of 15% to the end of June, compared to like for like data for the same period during 2014.…
Adria Airways: encouraging data shows 15% year on year increase in passenger growth
Amid heightened speculation regarding its immediate and long-term future, Slovenian flag-carrier Adria Airways has posted encouraging data for the first six months of 2015, seemingly vindicating a pursued business model predicated on operating leased aircraft and increasing the number of sites from where its planes are based.Despite claims to the contrary Adria have sought to…
Adria Airways: process to privatise the flag-carrier set to intensify
The phony war seems to be over, the gloves finally coming off in a saga so protracted that it threatens the very premise Slovenia's denationalisation programme was founded on, namely, the swift privatisation of fifteen of the country's foremost publically-held companies aimed at reducing the national deficit and shrinking the state, a concept almost unthinkable…
Adria Airways pitches Maribor flights to Graz region
The reintroduction of scheduled flights from Maribor's Edvard Rusjan Airport has begun with a service Adria Airways hope will be the catalyst of one of more of its aircraft being based in the east of Slovenia, their route into London Southend seen as a precursor to future operations that majority owners Delavska hranilnica insist will…
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