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Ljubljana-Brnik (LJU)
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| Time zone: |
GMT 1 |
| Country: |
Slovenia (SI) |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
46°13'25"N / 14°27'27"E |
| Alternative spelling: |
Ljubljana, Ljubljana-Brnik |
| Service telephone: |
+386 4 20 61 981 |
Access to public transport: |
A2 to the exit "Brnik“, from there follow the signs to the airport. |
| Address: |
Aerodrom Ljubljana, d.d., Zg. Brnik 130a, 4210 Brnik-aerodrom, Republika Slovenija |
Passengers: |
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| Operating Company: |
Aerodrom Ljubljana, d.d. |
Take-off and landing: |
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Stations: |
From the central coach station in Ljubljana there is a shuttle bus with daily services to the airport. |
| Altitude of runway: |
388 m |
Length of runway: |
3300 m |
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Nearby cities:
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Ljubljana (19 km), Trieste (83 km), Rijeka (98 km)
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Operating airlines:
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Adria Airways, Deutsche Lufthansa, LOT Polish Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Finnair, CSA Czech Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines
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Alternative airports:
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Klagenfurt (KLU) 48 km, Trieste (TRS) 88 km, Maribor (MBX) 99 km, Rijeka (RJK) 112 km, Graz (GRZ) 115 km, Zagreb-Pleso (ZAG) 136 km |
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Description:
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The former Brink airport was inaugurated on 24th December 1963 in ex-Yugoslavia with the scheduled route from Ljubljana to Belgrade. Only 2 weeks later scheduled services from Ljubljana to Zadar and London-Heathrow were taken up and provided by the former Yugoslavian airline JAT. The airport was able to record great success right from the beginning and as early as in 1965 counted more than 130,000 passengers. During the same period more than 15 companies worked or landed on a daily basis at the airport. Due to the continually fast growing package tourism even at that time, daily traffic for tourists from the Mediterranean region was diverted to the nearby city of Pula in order to be better able to coordinate scheduled services in Ljubljana.
With this step and the ensuing increase in scheduled flight routes, the runway was extended in 1971 to a total length of 2,200 m (7,217 ft). At the same time planning and building work of a new terminal as well as several new aeroplane hangars was begun. Shortly after completion in 1973 the former Yugoslav Committee for Federal Aviation inspected the airport and transferred Zagreb’s transport rights to Ljubljana airport, as Zagreb airport also had to be modernised. Response from the population was enormous and within 2 months of this decision, passenger and freight volume doubled. In the following year the structure and planning changed in favour of national airports and the volume of traffic at the airport sunk by 30% within a short period. On 30th June 1978, Ljubljana airport was completely closed to air traffic after 3 years of preparation in order for complete reconstruction to take place. The runway was extended to 3,300 m (10,800 ft) in length and the control tower reconstructed to comply with newest standards. During this period of modernisation and reconstruction the entire traffic from Brink was diverted to the nearby airports of Maribor, Pula and Zaghreb. After only 3 years of building work and the accompanying inconvenience for passengers, the airport was reopened and the inauguration celebrated on 20th December 1978 and the first flight took off from Ljubljana to New York. In the following decade, the 1980s, passenger numbers in Ljubljana increased from 581,000 to about 753,000 up until the disintegration of the Yugoslavian state.
Air traffic ceased entirely from the outbreak of war and could only be resumed in February 1992 after independence. Due to the lack of passengers from present Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, passenger numbers decreased dramatically in that year to 248,851. Until 1995, the new airport management in Ljubljana could revive past success and count a total of 750.000 passengers a year. Due to growing passenger numbers the terminal building in Ljubljana could be extended from 4.000 square km to 6.000 square km. In 1998 British Airways, as a political statement, took up the route between London Gatwick and Ljubljana, were however forced to give the route up again only two years on due to lack of demand,. In 2000 the parking facilities were extended as a result of high demand and in 2001 the Czech airline CSA included the route from Prague to Ljubljana in its seasonal flight plan.
Only one year on, the Yugoslav airline JAT resumed flights from Belgrade to Ljubljana and in the same year the Israeli charter flight company Israir began to transport beach tourists from Tel Aviv to the Slovenian and Croatian Mediterranean coast. In 2004 the so called low-cost airlines „arrived“ in the Slovenian capital, when the English company easyjet was given rights to land and operate flights from Ljubljana. For the first time the magical one million mark was passed for passenger numbers. In the meantime (2007) more than 1.3 million passengers a year fly from Ljubljana airport to Europe, to the former Yugoslav constituent republics and to the Middle East. Since 2006 inconveniences can be expected at the airport as a new terminal is in planning along with 8 passenger bridges, a hotel, a shopping centre and a new car park as well as a completely reorganised road system.
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Location:
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The international airport Ljubljana - Jože Pucnik is located 26 km (16 miles) south of the city centre of the Slovenian capital, near the community of Brink.
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Destinations:
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Currently (Summer 2007) 11 airlines in total possess rights to operate flights to and from Ljubljana airport. In its Summer timetable 2007, the national airline Adria Airways flies to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Manchester, Rome, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow several times a week for example as well as to the hubs in the former constituent republics: Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo and Skopje. JAT airlines flies to Belgrade. The English low-cost carrier Easyjet also has landing and departing rights in Ljubljana, flying to London-Stansted. Other airlines include Malev to Budapest, Czech to Prague, Finnair to Helsinki, Montenegro Airlines to Podgorica, Air France to Paris, Wizzair with flights to Brussels and LOT to Warsaw.
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