Luton Airport and Adria

Adria Airways was in the UK last week promoting its new four times per week Luton to Ljubljana service first announced back in January.  The airline pulled out of Gatwick at the beginning of the winter season without giving a reason but at a press conference in the private area of the Luton airside lounge the logic of the move became apparent.  According to Adria the 50-seat Bombardier CRJ was not viable.  At Luton a 135-seat Airbus A319 will be used and the airline will be selling onward connections to Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje and Tirana.  The airline competes with a three times per week easyJet Stansted service.

Created in the former Yugoslavia in 1961 today Adria is the Slovenian national carrier and for the most part state-owned.  When the daily flights begin on 28 March it will become the first Star Alliance member airline to operate into Luton.  Adria makes it clear that is not a low cost airline in the accepted sense offering both a “Priority Lane” and “Executive Lounge” facility to all passengers. www.adria.si

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