Adria Airways Continues To Suspend Flights, Future Looks Bleak

Adria also operates (operated?) the SWISS route Zurich to Lugano (and maybe more?) so the LH group is definitely involved and impacted for sure. Hope Adria get on their feet but every 12-18 months there seems to be this wave of airlines going out of business all at once in Europe.

Maybe they can call Melania Trump and get a US firm to bankroll them at least until 2020

Well between Thomas Cook, XL Airways, and Adria, it's not a good week for European airlines. And Norwegian are on a lifeline until early November...

If they go out of business, Slovenia won't have anymore airlines operating, will they?

"as Frankfurt is their most important connecting hub (as that feeds into the Lufthansa network)."

They also feed traffic to Frankfurt and Munich from their bases in Tirana and Pritina too...

Pristina, I mean.

Slovenia is at the heart of excellent rail and modern road connections to much of the rest of Europe.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Adria will become the latest addition to the Eurowings family...or, perhaps, could become a subsidiary carrier to Austrian, along the lines of Edelweiss at Swiss, or Eurowings at Lufthansa.

As much as I hate to say it, I am not surprised. Adria’s prices are not competitive at all (it’s rare to find sub-200€ fares on these hour long flights). At least from MUC, I really don’t see that business travel demand (neither O&D nor connecting traffic) that could potentially make flights viable.

You can get 60€ Rt train tickets (and upgrade to first for another 15-20 each way). As @Frederik already mentioned, road connections are very good too, so you could save even more going by bus, or just renting a car/using your own and driving there.

Unless LH steps in (doubt they’ll rescue something that’s already dead), I wouldn’t count on seeing Adria operating beyond 2019.

I am supposed to be taking an Adria Airways flight next week. I fly into Vienna on Austrian with a connection to Prague on Adria. I guess worst case I rent a car or hop on a train to get to prague though I wonder if I should start to look at other options since I booked this on points with United. Maybe look at Lufthansa or Swiss Air or something.

Wow. With this and Thomas cook going bust, there must be an abundance of repossessed aircraft on the market at the moment

@Jamie

Yes and no.

Keep in mind that it's only the British part of Thomas Cook that is gone. Condor never stopped flying, the Scandinavian part of Thomas Cook had a stop of 1 day and is now back in the air.

Together those 2 companies has close to half the Thomas Cook group air fleet.

The UK part of the fleet was only 34 aircraft's. It's important to remember that Thomas Cook was an group rather than just one company.

Most of Adria's fleet was regional jets and a good number of them was on wet lease to other airlines that are now scrambling to find replacements.

And finally the aircraft market was bone dry before this due to airlines scrambling to find replacements for the B737MAX and the B787 with RR engines.

So to say that there will be an abundance of aircraft, repossessed or for sale in other ways is an overstatement.

I booked on Austrian from VIE to BLQ for next week. That particular flight is operated by Adria. I called Austrian and they said it is operated by them but still shows Adria on their booking site. Should I rebook with another airline? Any suggestions?

Last time I checked, Tirana was well served by OS (LHGroup). In any event, OS can quickly ramp up and do transfer traffic.

Yes, it is served by Austrian as well as Lufthansa, though Lufthansa only offered flights to Frankfurt. And Edelweiss Air also offered flights to Zurich.

Still, losing a couple of routes that provided direct feeder passengers for LHGroup isn't a positive thing, even if the other airlines can add some transfer flights.

Must be a lot of stupid people with money that keep funding these money losing airlines. Or a lot of money laundering going on.

I stumbled across https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/jobs/Adria_Airways
On 9/21:
"Increasing operational difficulties due to lack of staff, unpaid invoices and late maintenance releases. Aircraft on verge of being impounded by leasing company "

If you book *A from anywhere to LJU you will connect through FRA, MUC, ZRH or VIE and the sector to LJU will be on Adria. The fares from European departure points are astronomical and book into the top booking classes in C & Y so how Adria have not made money is a mystery.

There is little low cost competition to LJU for some reason.

I for one will be pleased to see the back of Adria, they are unreliable, expensive, offer a poor standard of service and their planes are worn out and certainly on the inside, leave a lot to be desired.

The sooner they are gone and replaced by LH group mainline services the better or maybe there's room for OU to step in, they struggle but at least offer decent and mostly reliable service. .

@Ray - While on that call they could ask her husband for some advice about what to do when your airline goes bankrupt.

Damn I'm flying fra to Pristina Oct 2 - 7. I booked it with chase and have already called in once to change the flight as they had canceled the Ljubljana to Pristina flight (now am flying direct fra to prn). Will give it to the weekend to cancel flights.

Estonia's Nordica is also canceling all scheduled flights and moving into wetleasing it's planes, so we'll see what happens there too...

Well, there you have it. One appalling review by lucky and this happens a few months later. XD

Julia says:
September 26, 2019 at 1:26 am

@Julia, all these services are moving to LOT mainline.