On Sunday, October 27, the winter flight schedule will take effect in air traffic, which will be valid until March 29, 2025. During this period, at Ljubljana Airport 14 regular airlines will be offering flights on 16 scheduled routes. Compared to last winter season, flights to the hubs in Munich and Zurich will be more frequent. The winter flight network will also be complemented by charter flights to 15 destinations. Compared to last year, a 17% increase in passenger numbers has been recorded, and by the end of the year, Fraport Slovenija expects to surpass 1.4 million passengers.

At the beginning of September, Ljubljana Airport welcomed its millionth passenger of 2024. Thanks to a significantly expanded flight network during the summer schedule—at the peak of the season, 22 airlines flew to 25 destinations—this milestone was achieved a full month earlier than in the previous year.

Today, the airline Iberia established direct flights from Ljubljana Airport to the Spanish capital. The route will connect Ljubljana and Madrid twice a week between July 29th and September 5th 2024.

As a result of a wider global information systems outage, we are also experiencing issues with carriers' information systems for flight check-in at our airport, at the moment causing minor delays in flight departures.

With today’s charter flight to Santorini and Crete Ljubljana Airport has entered the main charter season. Organized by travel agencies, the most popular destinations in the Mediterranean and beyond will be available. Altogether, passengers are able to choose from 57 destinations with charter flights this summer season.  

The airline Norwegian today established new flights from Ljubljana Airport. Slovenia will be connected twice a week to Copenhagen, and through the hub Norwegian will offer convenient onward flights to other Nordic countries.

The Latvian airline airBaltic launched flights from Ljubljana Airport to its home base in Riga, Latvia. The airline will connect Slovenia and Latvia twice weekly, and through its hub at Riga Airport offer a number of onward flights throughout Europe, to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus region.

It has been 60 years since passenger traffic began at Ljubljana Airport. At a celebratory event marking the airport's venerable jubilee, the airport operator provided insights into its rich history, successful traffic recovery, and outlined future projects for the development of airport infrastructure and services. The honorary speaker at the event was the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Nataša Pirc Musar, and the managing director of Fraport Slovenija, Dr. Babett Stapel, also addressed the guests.

Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU) has become the latest airport to deploy Assaia’s turnaround technology to optimize the airport’s turnaround performance. This is an important cornerstone for the remaining airports across the Fraport portfolio. Early results are showing the substantial difference in average ground delays for flights where alerts were acknowledged versus those flights where alerts were not acknowledged. The reduction in average ground delays is almost six minutes in the time period from January to February this year.

A network of flights from Ljubljana Airport will be provided by as many as 22 regular airlines this summer season, the most so far. They will offer 25 connections throughout Europe and beyond, with convenient connecting flights through major airports enabling travel to all corners of the world. Passengers can look forward to three new additions: airBaltic flights to Riga, Norwegian flights to Copenhagen, and Iberia flights to Madrid. The charter flight offering will also be rich – flights will be available to 57 holiday destinations. With the boom in tourist travel, Ljubljana Airport is experiencing strong traffic growth – in January and February, there was a 31 percent increase in passengers compared to the same period last year, and a similar growth is expected in March.

Due to an announced strike of ground handling staff at some German airports, certain Lufthansa flights from Ljubljana Airport will be cancelled in the coming days.

At the end of April, a new airline, Norwegian, will start flying to Ljubljana Airport. It will establish a connection with the Danish capital and enhance Slovenia’s connectivity with Nordic countries. The airline will also offer good options for onward travel through the extensive network of Copenhagen Airport, the largest northern European aviation hub. According to the carriers' announcements for the summer schedule, the flight network from Ljubljana Airport will offer at least 26 regular connections. Passengers can look forward to three new destinations - besides Copenhagen, flights to Madrid and Riga will also be introduced.

It has been 60 years since passenger traffic commenced at Ljubljana Airport. The first regular connections to Belgrade, Dubrovnik, and London were provided by the former Yugoslav airline JAT, while Adria-aviopromet flew to Belgrade and Algiers. The beginnings were modest, with just 78,000 passengers handled in 1964. Today, Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport stands as a modern and efficient regional gateway—a hub of opportunities for individuals, society, and the broader global community. The venerable jubilee is marked by a strong growth in passenger traffic and successful recovery after a challenging period, during which the bankruptcy of Adria Airways left the airport without its largest business partner and faced an unimaginable loss of traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, Ljubljana Airport concluded the year with a 30% annual increase in passenger numbers, with more than 1,270,000 passengers. In the summer schedule, 22 carriers will be flying from Ljubljana Airport offering at least 26 routes.

On Sunday, October 29, 2023 the winter schedule will come into effect in air traffic. Until end of March, 2024 it will be possible to travel to 18 destinations with 15 regular airlines from Ljubljana Airport. Compared to the last winter schedule, connections to Luxembourg, Skopje and Priština are added, and for the first time in winter season flights of British Airways to London Heathrow will be available. The frequencies of flights to Istanbul, Dubai, Zurich and Belgrade will be strengthened. In early October the millionth passenger landed at Ljubljana Airport, and until end of the year, we expect to serve more than 1.2 million passengers, over 20 percent more than last year.

The Petrol Group and Fraport Slovenija have opened an electric vehicle charging station at Ljubljana Airport. It is located in vicinity of the Terminal A, on parking P1. It features four charging points, which for now are capable of providing energy for eight electric vehicles. The charging points were installed as part of the European MULTI-E project, the main objective of which is to develop mobility services and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. This project is proof of Petrol and Fraport Slovenija’s commitment to fulfilling their vision and mission of working towards a zero-carbon society and a green future.

Today Ljubljana Airport welcomed its millionth passenger. He arrived from Istanbul with the morning flight of Turkish Airlines. A strengthened flight network in the summer schedule – 19 regular airlines offering 23 destinations, and rising demand resulted that one million passengers travelled through the airport a bit sooner than expected. The winter season, which is set to start end of October, will be richer in flight offer than last year's, thus now more than 1.2 million passengers are expected to be handled until the end of the year. Recently new flights to Luxembourg and Skopje were introduced, and in the next summer season, in May 2024, for the first time a connection to Riga will be established.

Wizz Air, the fastest growing airline in Europe and the most environmentally sustainable airline globally*, is expanding the flight offer from Ljubljana Airport. Yesterday, on September 27, the airline introduced a new connection to Skopje, that will be operated twice weekly, every Wednesday and Sunday. Skopje is already the 23rd regular flight connection available in the summer schedule from Ljubljana Airport. In the middle of September, the 900,000th passenger took off from Ljubljana Airport. Until the end of the year we expect to handle more than 1.2 million passengers to travel to/from Ljubljana Airport.

The flight network of Ljubljana Airport is strengthened with a new connection of Luxair. The carrier established new flights to Luxembourg on September 14, it will operate them twice weekly. Altogether 23 direct connections with 19 airlines are offered from Ljubljana Airport in the summer schedule.

Due to flooded sections on the road access from the airport to the motorway A2-E61, 10 Brnik in the direction of Ljubljana is temporarily closed. We advise passengers to use access through 9 Kranj - vzhod. 

The flight network of Ljubljana Airport will be strengthened with a new connection of Luxair still in the summer schedule. The carrier will establish twice weekly flights to Luxembourg on September 14. Altogether 23 direct connections with 19 airlines will be available from Ljubljana Airport.