Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport guide

Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport opened for commercial traffic on 29 May 1976 at Hoče–Slivnica, south of Maribor. It was renamed in 2008 after Edvard Rusjan, a Slovene aviation pioneer. It is one of two airports in the country with ILS-equipped international commercial capability, alongside Ljubljana.

The state owns the airport. DRI upravljanje investicij, d.o.o. has run it under temporary management since July 2019. A new terminal opened in November 2012 at a cost of about EUR 15 million, with capacity for at least 600,000 passengers a year, and the older terminal was renovated in 2013. The main runway, 14/32, is 2,500 metres of asphalt, with a 1,200-metre grass strip alongside it.

Scheduled service has been brief and intermittent. Ryanair flew to London Stansted from June 2007 to March 2008, Adria Airways ran London Southend flights in summer 2015, and VLM Airlines Slovenia served Split and Dubrovnik in August 2017. Traffic peaked at 25,000 passengers in 2007 and fell to 2,435 in 2018, the latest published figure. Flight schools now make most use of the airfield.