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Adria Airways is the largest airline in Slovenia with more than 50 years of experience in charter and scheduled services.

Adria Airways connects Slovenia to numerous European cities and as a Star Alliance member provides access to a global network of flights to 193 countries.

Adria Airways has 170 scheduled flights from Ljubljana a week flying to destinations such as Manchester, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Munich, Malmo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Lodz, Moscow, Istanbul, Tirane, Skopje, Pristina, Sarajevo, Maribor and Vienna.

Adria Airways has codeshare agreements with Aeroflot, Air India, Air Serbia, Austrian Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines and Turkish Airlines.

Adria Airways has been a Star Alliance since 2004 and a Lufthansa partner since 1996. Adria Airways' fleet consists of Airbus A319 and Bombardier CRJ900LR. In March 2016, 4K Invest, a Luxembourg based investment fund completed the majority takeover of Adria Airways.

Baggage

For checked baggage, Adria Airways allows 1 piece of baggage, not exceeding 23 kgs, for Economy class and 2 pieces of baggage for customers travelling in Business Class.

Hand baggage must not exceed the dimensions 55 x 40 x 23cm and the maximum permitted weight of hand baggage of 8kg.

Frequent Flyer Program

Adria Airways offers two loyalty programmes for frequent flyers: Miles & More for individual travallers and the Adria Corporate Card for business travellers.

Miles & More allows passengers to earn reward miles on all Adria Airways scheduled flights and flights with Star Alliance members and other partner airlines.

News

21st September 2017

Slovenia-based Adria Airways announces regular flights to Kiev

The Slovenia-based Adria Airways has announced it will offer flights from Ljubljana to Kiev since October, making the direct link from Ljubljana airport to Boryspil International available three times a week.

The route will open on October 29, with night flights to Kiev scheduled each Thursday, Friday and Sunday and flights in the opposite direction on Monday, Friday and Saturday, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reported on Monday quoting Adria Airways.

Adria Airways CEO Arno Schuster believes that the route will also provide a better connection for Ukraine via Ljubljana to other European destinations and it will boost economic cooperation.

14th September 2017

Adria Airways sells brand in €8million deal

Adria Airways (JP, Ljubljana) has disclosed in its annual report that it sold its brand in December of last year in a deal worth EUR8 million (USD9.6 million). However, the airline has not revealed who the buyer was. News site Siol speculates that the brand may have been sold to a company connected to Adria's owner 4K Invest in a bid to improve its financial figures on paper.

According to Adria's annual report, the airline will lease back the trademark. "A branding fee is paid by the new trademark owner (i) with a royalty deducting from the purchase price, and (ii) after 9 years, i.e. in 2025, the remainder of the purchase price of the brand in cash. The license fee for the calendar year is EUR400,000 + 0.15% of annual revenues."

As a result of the sale, Adria posted an annual net profit of EUR3.2 million, a dramatic improvement on 2015's loss of EUR9.2 million. This was despite an 11% decrease in passengers carried and a corresponding 6.72% decrease in passenger revenue. Operating expenses were down 6% to EUR150 million.

4K Invest subsidiary AA International Aviation Holding assumed full ownership of Adria Airways in July 2016 after winning an international tender to purchase the airline, as part of a government-backed privatisation drive. The airline operates to twenty countries using a fleet of three A319-100s, three CRJ-700s, and seven CRJ-900s.

11th September 2017

Austrian Airlines Signs Wet Lease Agreement With Adria Airways

Austrian Airlines will start a wet lease agreement with its Star partner Adria Airways.

The aim of the agreement is to have reserve aircraft available to enable greater flexibility in flight planning. Austrian Airlines will lease the aircraft along with cockpit and cabin crew – one as of September 16, 2017 and the other as of October 1st, 2017. The CRJ 900 jets offer room for 86 passengers and thus have a larger seating capacity than the Bombardier Q400.

The aircraft will be operated in the Austrian Airlines route network. Planned destinations amongst others include Warsaw, Venice and Bucharest. Passengers on board will enjoy the customer service provided by DO&CO.

The hub of Adria Airways is at Ljubljana Airport, near the capital of Slovenia. The Slovenian home carrier is a member of Star Alliance, and has thus been a reliable partner of Austrian Airlines for many years. Adria Airways links Slovenia with numerous European cities and offers very good flight connections to South East Europe. The airline’s headquarters are located at Jože Pučnik Ljubljana Airport.

29th August 2017

Adria Airways announces regular flights to Kiev

Adria Airways, has announced it will offer flights to Kiev starting at the end of October. The direct link from Ljubljana airport to Boryspil International, Kiev's main airport, will be available three times a week.

The route will open on 29 October, with night flights to Kiev scheduled each Thursday, Friday and Sunday and flights in the opposite direction on Monday, Friday and Saturday, Adria Airways said on Monday.

Adria Airways CEO Arno Schuster believes that the route will also provide a better connection for Ukraine via Ljubljana to other European destinations and that it will boost economic cooperation.

Formerly Slovenia's state-owned flag carrier, Adria was acquired by 4k Invest, a turnaround fund, in early 2016.

24th July 2017

Slovenia's Adria Airways boosts H1 passenger numbers by 10% y/y

The number of passengers carried by Slovenian flag carrier Adria Airways rose by 10% year-on-year in the first half of 2017, a spokesperson for the company said.

"A total of 541,092 passengers travelled on charter and regular Adria flights from January to June 2017," Andreja Jernejcic, a spokesperson for the company, told SeeNews in an e-mailed statement on Thursday.

In the first half of last year the number of passengers who travelled with Adria was 492,081, according to the statement.

The 2016 figure excludes passengers whom Adria Airways aircraft carried on flights the company operated on behalf of Estonia's Nordica last year.

The cooperation agreement between Nordica and Adria Airways expired in November 2016.

20th July 2017

Adria Airways has assumed control of Darwin Airline after Etihad exited its 33.3% stake. According to an airline statement, Adria Airways, through its Swiss subsidiary, has acquired a 99.1% in Darwin Airline SA. The remaining interest will be acquired in the short term. Darwin Airline currently operates four ATR72-500s and six Saab 2000s on scheduled passenger flights throughout Switzerland, as well as to Italy, Spain, and France. It also undertakes ACMI contracts for other carriers which, at present, include Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) and Air Berlin (AB, Berlin Tegel).

In May 2017, it was announced that Adria Airways was to close its Lodz base after the contract was cancelled. Adria Airways currently runs a service from Lodz to Munich using CRJ-700 equipment. The Slovenian airline had already terminated flights from Lodz to Amsterdam on March 31, and its Paris CDG service on January 28. With the closure of its Lodz base, Adria will now maintain two bases – one in Ljubljana and the other in Pristina.

In April 2017, Adria Airways announced it was to expect a successful 2017 after it made headway last year both in terms of revenue and expenditure.

12th May 2017

Slovenia's Adria Airways plans to operate charter flights connecting Kosovo's Pristina to Germany's Stuttgart during the summer season. The company will operate a series of charter flights between Pristina and Stuttgart in the period between July 31 and September 4, Adria Airways said in a statement e-mailed to SeeNews. The company also said it discontinued the Pristina-London Luton service last year and has no plans of operating it in 2017. Adria Airways operates regular flights from Pristina to Frankfurt, Ljubljana and Munich as well as a seasonal service to Sweden's Malmo.

31st March 2017

Adria Airways awarded Best Buy Award
Adria Airways has been awarded 1st place in the Airline Company category for 2017/2018, in the best buy Awards research which was conducted in the Slovenian Market ICERTIAS International Certification Association.

27th March 2017
Ljubljana airport is introducing additional regular routes as it switches to summer schedule on Sunday, including low-budget flights to Amsterdam in April. National flag carrier Adria Airways will offer additional flights to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Moscow, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Skopje and Warsaw.

6th February 2017

Adria Airways is considering launching flights to Tehran Imam Khomeini, Iran, on 1st June 2017.
The service will provide 3 times weekly route with A319-100 equipment.

In April 2016, Adria Airways cancelled flights to Stockholm (cancellation effective April 10th) and flights to Cologne (cancellation effective April 26th). Adria Airways summer timetable featured two direct flights a week between Ljubljana and Stockholm and three direct flights a week between Ljubljana and Cologne. All passengers on our aircraft now have access to the Adria OnAir Entertainment portal – a new service we have introduced in order to improve our passengers' travel experience. The portal contains a wealth of useful and entertaining content arranged into individual categories for readers to select from.

In November 2016, Adria Airways announced that it had enjoyed a 18% rise in passenger numbers year-on-year. The number of passengers carried by Slovenia's Adria Airways increased 18% on the year in September, reaching 156,000, The planes of Slovenia's flag carrier travelled 159 million passenger-kilometres in September, up 17% year-on-year. In September 2016, Adria Airways announced its growth strategy whereby it is focusing on three key aspects aimed at turning the Slovenian carrier into one of Europe's main regional operators. The first aspect will see Adria expand its operational reach by increasing its ACMI and ad-hoc charter business while at the same time increasing its scheduled coverage of underserved secondary markets. Adria currently operates three A319-100s, one CRJ-200 (currently undergoing repairs), three CRJ-700s, and nine CRJ-900s on regular flights to thirty-eight destinations in twenty-four countries around Western Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, and Israel.

In March 2017, Adria Airways announced the number of passengers carried by Slovenia's Adria Airways in January dropped 13% on the year to 72,800. The planes of Slovenia's flag carrier travelled 69 million passenger-kilometres in January, down 15% year-on-year, the agency said in a monthly transport sector report. Passenger traffic at Ljubljana airport jumped 22% on the year in January to 89,400. In terms of passenger traffic at Slovenia's seaports, only 78 passengers were recorded at the port of Koper in January, up 50% on the year. The port processed 1.8 million tonnes of goods, down 8.1% compared to January last year.

In April 2017, Adria Airways announced it had reached an agreement with the airline's pilots to avert a strike.

Airbus A319

Bombardier CRJ200LR

Bombardier CRJ900LR

Bombardier CRJ700ER

Ljubljana Joze Pucnik Airport 

HUB Airport

Ljubljana Joze Pucnik Airport is the international airport of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia and serves as the Homebase for Adria Airways, the Slovenian flag carrier. Other airlines which use Ljubljana Airport are Air France, Adria Airways, Air Serbia, easyJet, LOT Polish Airliens, Montenegro Airlines and Swiss International Airlines. The airport has one runaway and handle almost 1.5 million passengers every year.