Adria Airways (JP, Ljubljana) has formally confirmed it will open a base at Paderborn/Lippstadt in western Germany with the onset of the Winter 2018/19 season on October 29, 2018.
The Slovenian carrier will connect Paderborn with Zurich (11x weekly), Vienna (4x weekly), and London Southend (3x weekly). Adria will base one Saab 2000 out of Paderborn. The carrier has recently finalised the addition of six turboprops of the type, all ex-Darwin Airline stock acquired through Jetstream Aviation Capital.
The base opening was earlier unofficially planned for March 2018 but was delayed due to bureaucratic hurdles with adding the Saab turboprops.
According to the ch-aviation capacity module, Paderborn currently sees mostly domestic and leisure traffic and lacks services to foreign hub airports. In terms of hub connections, Lufthansa currently flies to Paderborn out of each of Munich and Frankfurt Int'l. Other airlines, including Eurowings, LaudaMotion, SunExpress, Corendon Airlines, and Corendon Airlines Europe operate leisure routes to Palma Son Sant...
