Lufthansa Group airlines are poised to begin services from its hubs in Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich to the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The move will help fill a gap left by the collapse of Slovenia's Adria Airways, which filed for bankruptcy on September 30. SWISS will be the first to land with five weekly services from Zurich to Ljubljana from October 16, extending this to daily services from October 27. Twice daily services from the airline’s Frankfurt hub will start with the winter Schedule on October 27 while Munich will follow with daily connections on November 1. READ: Qantas plans to keep A380s flying for another decade. Austrian Airlines will also offer its passengers up to three daily connections from Vienna to Klagenfurt as an alternative to the termination of Adria Airways flight operations to Ljubljana. “With these new flights, the Lufthansa Group will connect passengers from all over the world to Slovenia and at the same time open the gateway for travelers from the Slovenian capital to take advantage of the Lufthansa Group worldwide network,’’ Lufthansa said. The German airline group also recently celebrated the 20^th anniversary of its aid organization, help alliance. Thirteen employees founded the charitable organization in 1999 and so far it has collected 17 million euros in more than 150 aid projects worldwide. The projects are still proposed by Lufthansa Group employees and are also supervised by them on an honorary basis Since 1999, 80 Lufthansa Group employees have volunteered as project managers who regularly check on-site to make sure that 100 percent of the donations go to the projects. The projects focus on education, work and income and contribute to the United Nations' global sustainability goals of "quality education" and "decent work and economic growth". I The airline group is also planning to introduce corporate volunteering where they can use their skills to work for alliance projects. "The help alliance is a success story. Originating among the workforce, it has been helping for 20 years where help is most urgently needed,'' said  Vivian Spohr, patroness of the alliance. "Through the personal and voluntary commitment of Lufthansa Group employees and our other supporters, we have been able to offer children and young people a perspective."