Ljubljana Airport launches winter schedule with three new destinations

On Sunday, 26 October, the winter flight schedule will take effect, running until 28 March 2026. During this period, passengers at Ljubljana Airport, which has been experiencing significant traffic growth, will be able to fly with 18 scheduled airlines to 21 destinations, including three new additions: Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), Manchester, and Barcelona.

The expanded winter schedule at Ljubljana Airport provides travelers with even more travel options. Compared to last winter, connectivity has been strengthened, as many airlines are maintaining the higher frequencies from the summer season, and three attractive new destinations are being added. AirBaltic, which already operates flights from Ljubljana to Riga, will launch a connection to Gran Canaria just before the autumn school holidays. Low-cost carrier easyJet will, in addition to flights to London, offer flights to Manchester starting in November. From mid-November, passengers will also be able to fly directly to Barcelona with Vueling.  Air Dolomiti will operate some flights to Munich  instead of Lufthansa.

Overall, the winter schedule will offer passengers  21 scheduled connections with 18 airlines, with the following flight frequencies.  Please note that the frequencies are provisional and could change.

• Aegean Airlines:  up to twice weekly to  Athens
• airBaltic:  twice weekly to  Riga  and once weekly to  Las Palmas  (Gran Canaria)
• Air Montenegro:  three times weekly to  Podgorica
• Air France:  six times weekly to  Paris
• Air Serbia:  twice daily to  Belgrade  and twice weekly to  Niš
• Brussels Airlines:  four times weekly to  Brussels
• easyJet:  up to seven times weekly to  London Gatwick  and twice weekly to  Manchester
• flydubai:  up to seven weekly to  Dubai
• GP Aviation:  once weekly to  Pristina
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines:  daily to  Amsterdam
• LOT Polish Airlines:  six times weekly to  Warsaw
• Lufthansa:  twice daily to  Frankfurt and four times weekly to Munich
• Air Dolomiti: six times weekly to  Munich
• Luxair:  up to twice weekly to  Luxembourg
• SWISS Airlines:  twice daily to  Zürich
• Turkish Airlines:  fourteen times weekly to  Istanbul
• Vueling:  up to three times weekly to  Barcelona
• Wizz Air:  four times weekly to  Skopje

A detailed informational schedule is available  here.

Wide charter flight offerings

The colder months also bring a wide range of charter destinations. From Ljubljana, passengers can fly directly to visit Santa Claus in Rovaniemi, while trips organized by Slovenian travel agencies will include destinations such as Italy (Apulia), Portugal (Porto, Azores, Madeira), Spain (Mallorca, Gran Canaria), Iceland, Turkey, the Netherlands, Malta, Egypt (Hurghada), and Jordan.

"The winter flight schedule at Ljubljana Airport will feature exciting new destinations that we and our passengers are eagerly anticipating – bringing Barcelona, the Canary Islands, and Manchester closer to us. Connectivity will also improve with more frequent flights compared to last year. The increasingly rich flight offering supports significant traffic growth. We are also pleased that early signals from airlines for the summer season 2026 are positive,"  said  Fraport Slovenija’s Managing Director Dr. Babett Stapel.

Significant traffic growth and positive outlook for 2026

In September, Ljubljana Airport handled over 176,000 passengers, marking a  13% increase  compared to September 2024. In the first nine months of this year, traffic grew by 8.6% compared to the same period last year, with over 1,230,000 passengers recorded. Fraport Slovenija expects to handle  more than 1.5 million passengers by the end of the year.

Early indications from airlines planning the 2026 summer schedule point to a promising season. Vueling will continue flights to Barcelona and easyJet will start flying to  Edinburgh. Connectivity will be further supported by KLM, which will offer an additional (morning) daily flight to Amsterdam. Other carriers, such as Iberia, Aegean Airlines, airBaltic, Finnair, and easyJet, are also expected to increase flight frequencies.

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