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Mar 20, 2015 (newstodate): After years in troubles with finding airlines willing to set up scheduled flights, Slovenia's Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport may finally see light again in 2015.
The Slovenian carrier Adria Airways is to reveal news of flights from Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport from this summer, with three destinations to be announced by the end of this week.
For some years, the airport has only been served with seasonal charter flights by various airlines including Ryanair and other LCCs.
After an aborted tender in 2010, another efforts was made in 2012, but both failed in attracting bids.
In 2014, the Slovenian union-owned bank, Delavska hranilica, acquired a 57 percent stake in the airport that is now seeking traffic.
Close to the country's second-largest city, Maribor in the north-east of Slovenia, Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport is the country's second-largest airport with a new passenger terminal opened in 2012 with the capacity to handle 600,000 passengers annually.
Plans are also to expand the existing 2,500 m runway over the next two years.
The Slovenian carrier Adria Airways is to reveal news of flights from Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport from this summer, with three destinations to be announced by the end of this week.
For some years, the airport has only been served with seasonal charter flights by various airlines including Ryanair and other LCCs.
After an aborted tender in 2010, another efforts was made in 2012, but both failed in attracting bids.
In 2014, the Slovenian union-owned bank, Delavska hranilica, acquired a 57 percent stake in the airport that is now seeking traffic.
Close to the country's second-largest city, Maribor in the north-east of Slovenia, Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport is the country's second-largest airport with a new passenger terminal opened in 2012 with the capacity to handle 600,000 passengers annually.
Plans are also to expand the existing 2,500 m runway over the next two years.