Leipzig Airport strokes Tirana flights: Travelers excited!

Leipzig Airport strokes Tirana flights: Travelers excited!

In the holiday season, the Leipzig Airport is very busy. But not all flight connections remain. From November 1, 2025, the direct connection to Tirana, the charming capital of Albania, will be deleted. This connection was operated by the Airline Wizzair, who had started flight operations to Tirana on September 30, 2024. Unfortunately, the reason for deleting the connection in the winter flight schedule 2025/2026 is not officially known, but it is speculated that the low capacity utilization has contributed to this. As early as January 2025, the utilization fell to modest 62.2 % after it was almost 90 % in October 2024.

Tirana is known for her impressive mix of Ottoman, Italian and communist architecture. The city is attracting more and more travelers, but the flight to Albania is now being paused in order to be flew from Leipzig again in the 2026 summer flight plan. A ray of hope is the fact that the connection to Bucharest in Romania continues to exist in winter. Other travel destinations remain available for passengers, and new flight destinations have been announced.

new flight destinations and collaborations

Leipzig/Halle Airport is strengthened by new cooperation. Sunexpress has been flying to Varna and Burgas in Bulgaria in collaboration with Electra Airways since May, and these connections remain upright in winter. Despite the deletion to Tirana, there are still interesting travel destinations for passengers on offer.

In order to look at the overall traffic, the EU recorded an increase of 8.7 % compared to the previous year with almost 1.1 billion passengers in 2024. Air traffic will also show positive tendencies in the coming months when it comes to recovery of the sector after the Covid 19 pandemic has great challenges. Especially the increase in countries such as Hungary, which recorded an increase of 19.2 % compared to 2023, gives hope for a positive development. The international extra-EU transport made up 49.3 % of all passengers, while intra-EU traffic was 36.3 % and national traffic 14.3 %.

It is clear that developments at Leipzig/Halle Airport are another step in which the constantly changing aviation landscape, and travelers can hope for new possibilities after some connections have been temporarily deleted.

For more information on the current developments at Leipzig Airport, read the detailed reports on and Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . Further statistics and insights offers Eurostat .