Adria Shrinks Winter Network to Cut Costs

Slovenian national carrier Adria Airways is to significantly reduce its schedule during the Northern Winter, removing some of its loss-making routes. The network rationalisation follows just weeks after the airline’s shareholders approved a €50 million cash injection and a €19.7 million debt-to-equity conversion to offset the carrier’s current debts.

The airline has confirmed that it will offer 163 flights per week from its Lubljana base to just 15 destinations from October 30. This will comprise four times daily services to Frankfurt; three times daily to Munich, Vienna and Zurich; 13 flights per week to Brussels; eleven to Skopje; nine to Moscow; eight to Belgrade; daily links to Istanbul, Priština and Tirana; six flights per week to Sarajevo; five to Amsterdam; three to Pogorica and two to Copenhagen.

This will mean notable frequency cuts on some of these routes and the suspension of existing flights from the Slovenian capital to Banja Luka, London Gatwick, Paris CDG and Warsaw, although operations will continue on some of these routes through Adria’s Star Alliance partners.

In December 2010, Adria Airways also started international flights from Priština and has confirmed it will continue to offer seven flights per week to Munich and four a week to Frankfurt this winter, although its route to Dusseldorf will be closed.