Low cost carrier Ryanair is considering further expanding operations from its base in Zagreb next summer, with the addition of new routes. The airline will restore seasonal flights to Bratislava, Brindisi, Corfu, Malmo and Thessaloniki, while services between Zagreb and Dortmund are yet to be put on sale. In addition, frequencies will be increased to Basel, Charleroi, Corfu, Dublin, Malta, Malmo, Sandefjord and Sofia when compared to the summer of 2022. The carrier has told EX-YU Aviation News that its Zagreb network for the coming season, which begins on March 26, is yet to be finalised. The airline expects for traffic to Croatia to increase in 2023, with the country to enter the Schengen Area on January 1. Schengen rules will be fully implemented at airports in late March. A boost in travel is projected from the French, German, Italian and Scandinavian markets.
Ryanair launched operations from Zagreb last year with plans to have up to ten aircraft eventually stationed in the city. So far it has based three Airbus A320s through its subsidiary Lauda Europe. Other factors may also impact on Ryanair’s decision to expand its Zagreb network. Talks with the Slovenian government over potential flights from nearby Ljubljana have collapsed, while the future of its operations from nearby Banja Luka remains uncertain. The carrier has not put tickets on sale for any of its flights from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second largest city past the 2022/23 winter season. It has not responded to inquiries surrounding the fate of its flights from the city.
Ryanair has covered a number of Zagreb’s busiest unserved routes in Europe when it commenced operations from the city. Other points on the continent which remain unserved but have high indirect traffic volumes from the Croatian capital include Geneva, Porto, Riga, Vilnius, Tirana, Tallin, Bologna and Hannover, although the low cost airline does not operate to all of them. “We are not focusing on routes covered by Croatia Airlines but those that are not served from Zagreb. We plan on carrying over ten million passengers in cooperation with Zagreb Airport over the next five to six years”, the company’s Group CEO, Michael O'Leary, previously said.
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I'm really glad Ryanair has launched routes which are not pure gasto and seem to be targeting leisure demand like Paphos, Malaga and Naples.
ReplyDeleteMalta ,Thessaloniki,Corfu,Brindisi
DeleteBravo FR
Now it would be interesting to see which airlines were primarily used to reach these destinations from/to Zagreb.
DeleteI'm assuming LH was used for many.
DeleteAlong with OU which transported them to Germany first.
DeleteRyanair put on sale tickets from BNX. With Vienna
DeleteMany of those routes could have been introduced by Croatia Airlines.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha, why should they care about such irrelevant things when they have unlimited acces to our money for drinking coffee and gossiping in Buzin?
DeleteWhy call it expansion when there’s no new routes?Possibly only one canceled, which is opposite of expansion.
ReplyDeleteThey are thinking about adding new routes.
Delete"Low cost carrier Ryanair is considering further expanding operations from its base in Zagreb next summer, with the addition of new routes":
DeleteFirst sentence
You completely failed to read the article and also about added frequencies. Love these people. And always first to comment.
DeleteYes, but that is not a quote, anyone can be considering anything at any time.
DeleteThe only thing that the CEO said was that they plan to have 10 planes in Zagreb, which we all know is la la land.
Their frequency growth for next year is expansion. They are expanding operations.
DeleteThey are increasing frequencies for their summer operations on some routes, which is great, of course. But, they also downgraded 3 routes to seasonal and decreased frequencies and possibly canceled Dortmund, which in total, doesn’t look much like an expansion to me. It could be technically called an expansion, but I was expecting at least 5 new routes. Especially when compared to other Croatian airports, Rijeka, Pula, Zadar all had very big increases of new routes from Ryanair and the pace of which new routes are added(removed) is very depressing for Zagreb, in my opinion.
DeleteJust be patient :)
DeleteTheir pace of growth kind of slowed, especially compared to what they were originally announcing. But I'm glad they are thinking about adding new destinations. Maybe we can expect a fourth plane in ZAG.
ReplyDeleteWhat other destinations could we see Ryanair add in the future? Next summer for example.
ReplyDeleteHope they will consider Athens
DeletePerhaps Lisbon, Porto, Athens, Stockholm, Riga, Tallinn
DeleteThey will not add Athens because Croatia and Aegean are in this market .
DeleteI really don't understand why they added Thessaloniki and not Athens which is currently without a year-round service to Zagreb when the demand for Athens is obviously bigger than the demand for Thessaloniki .
DeleteBecause they wouldn't have gotten subsidies from Zagreb Airport if they added Athens. They need to add routes that have not been served from Zagreb for at least 2 years to get money for it.
DeleteAh thanks, didn't know that
DeleteCould Berlin work?
DeleteBefore the pandemic, there were flights to Berlin from almost every airport in Ex-Yu (for example, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Niš). There are also almost no European capitals without a direct connection to Berlin. But probably too early for Croatia
DeleteLjubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo. No flights to Berlin.
DeleteCroatia Airlines used to fly to Berlin when people who cared about the airline, growth and development were in charge. And not only Berlin - Manchester, Madrid, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Moscow, Istanbul, Budapest, Tirana, and more. Then, Uhljebs and criminals took over
DeleteWhat about Prague? I think that could work.
DeleteStill waiting for OU to respond...
ReplyDeleteWe will be waiting for a while.
DeleteTheir response is state aid which they will get tomorrow.
DeleteOU don't need to respond to a down-market corrupt money grabbing Ryanair!
DeleteGood that there was never corruption in Croatia
Delete10:53 nice one, made me chuckle
DeleteThe only down-market corrupt money grabbing subject in this story is Croatia Airlines. In order to write opposite, one needs to be either paid to write it, or has the entire brain surgically removed
DeletePOZDRAV : From the bottom of my heart I wiss OU go bankrupt so you have some peace ! You are unbareble my mate !!! All those years.....gosh !!!
DeleteI wish from the bottom of my hearth OU to transform to normal and decent carrier, not to go bankrupt. If you can't understand that, you have a problem. Also, if you find me unbearable, simply skip reading my posts.
DeleteIt will become like Sofia.
ReplyDeleteThe first two years of operation - 21 destinations and three based aircraft.
In the following years, the destinations will reach 35-40. (most flights are served by machines from other bases).
Zagreb will obviously get more based planes, since there is no Wizz there.
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DeleteAlso OTP
For sure anon 09:15. Thing is, with FR it sometimes needs more time because it is a huge company. More EU connections are needed: MAD, WMI/WRO/KRK, PMI, ATH, OTP etc.
Delete2nd daily STN evening flights is their classic. Read elsewhere that by January they are considering new expansions in the region. Checking their SOF network BRI will be upped to 6 weekly, daily VIE and CGN.
OU most likely are going to look elsewhere or continue focusing on SPU as FR can get really agressive (price wise) on busier routes especially when they use their bigger Maxes. Surprisingly are currently being used deployed in ZAG on some routes such as BGY, SOF, MLA.
Yes.
DeleteWill be interesting to see 10 aircraft at ZAG.
Sadly for OU ,but this is market economy.
What surprised me the most is the number of passengers on ZAG-SOF market. It just really shows how being in EU creates synergy and opportunities where there weren't many!
DeleteIt's interesting to see what is happening around ZAG. First no deal in Slovenia, second their potential exit from Banja Luka.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening in BNX? They were performing well there.
DeleteSubsidies are ending
DeleteAnd they are not going to be extended?
DeleteDue to politics, there is currently no one available to extend them.
DeleteIt would be interesting to see which routes bring the most profit for Ryanair in ZAG.
ReplyDeleteRYR is not here to make a profit in the initial period.
DeleteWhat are they there for then?
DeleteHope they don't start cancelling flights and routes from ZAG like they did this year because of staff shortage.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if someone already called it out, some ZAG routes now being operated by RYR mainline (738s). Lauda-based fleet being too thin stretched?
ReplyDelete8 seats more.
DeleteI was flying in october from Bergamo to Zagreb with 737 Max operatet by Air Malta but it was Ryanair plane
DeleteI've just travelled through Ljubljana, and it seems like their old terminal is back and operational for charter flights (and quite possible for those 4 weekly LLC flights), so I guess they have some strategy to move all LLC operations to the old part, and charge lower fees?
ReplyDeleteits only used for charters, not LCCs
DeleteFinally. I want them to add new routes. They have been kind of slow.
ReplyDeleteThey should increase frequencies to Málaga, their planes are always full.
ReplyDeleteWith Ryan it's not that simple; even if the palnes are full the yield may not be that high
DeleteBut the yield to AGP is high
Deletefor sure they have given u access to their books
DeleteMalaga was a very good choice. Mallorca should be the next destination
DeleteYou don't need to have access to their books @An.10.49. It's good enough to try to book the ticket month(s) in advance and realize cheapest price for the basic tariff is over 100 euro one way. It says much more than the books which can be cooked
DeleteThe flight to Málaga on 26.12. is sold out after selling some tickets at 200 euros.
DeleteThis will be an exciting time for Zagreb and I hope Ryanair starts getting those passenger numbers up.
ReplyDeleteThey are. This growth isn't due to Croatia Airlines
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2022/12/zagreb-overtakes-pre-covid-traffic.html
Poor OU.
ReplyDeleteGood for Zagreb
DeleteIt will affect some other airlines in Zagreb too. Not just Croatia Airlines.
DeleteBringing Ryanair was a clever move by ZAG.
ReplyDeleteWe will see. ZAIC just got aid from the government.
DeleteMaybe Ryanair could introduce Zagreb-Tirana. Does Ryanair fly to Tirana at all?
ReplyDeleteNo it does not. Wizz Air rules in Tirana.
DeleteI doubt Wizz would let Ryanair enter the Albanian market
DeleteAnonymous 10.42, and how could they possibly do that? Is Wizzair the owner of Albania?
DeleteAs an Albanian I can tell you no chance FR enters Albania. They are in bed with TIA and the government.
DeleteAlso at least we have ZAG-TGD which is not that bad. I used it a couple of months ago to get from ZAG to Albania.
DeleteFR operates charters to Albania from Poland.
Delete@11.10 lol
DeleteMy guess is more routes in Spain will be included next to the network.
ReplyDeleteThey will eventually cover the whole of Europe from ZAG.
ReplyDeleteI bet on France destinations apart from Paris. It's a shame that there's no other route than Paris from France to Zagreb. Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse....
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteW6, where are you?
ReplyDeleteThey are busy cancelling routes left and right.
DeleteTo be fair FR axed more than 100 routes today as well...
DeleteSounds nice but let's wait and see what materializes out of all of these announcements by Ryanair.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they start flying to Tel Aviv? There are no flights to Israel from Croatia at all (except some charter ones). Closest options are flights from BUD or VIE...
ReplyDeleteEL AL flies twice weekly ZAG to TLV. Maybe not currently as the consequence of the pLandemic, but it was the case before
DeleteMaybe this is opportunity to start flying there until they start having a competition...
DeleteWhich base?!
ReplyDeleteThere is no one aircraft overnight. So, no base iz Zagreb.
Today 9H-QBZ operate Bgy-Zag-Trf-Zag-Bgy
Second one EI-HGW operate Stn-Zag-Stn
That's all.
Don't look at it that way. They won't always use all of the based aircraft every single day or at the same. As Croat based aircraft might operate to other destinations during the day.
Deleteyou do realize they get extra incentives form ZAG for basing an aircraft? anon @11.43 has a good point but FR may have found a weak point in the incentives plan
DeleteThe aircraft are parked today. They resume operating flights on Friday. All three of them.
Delete3 aircraft are based in ZAG, they are parked due to saving of resources. And this is confirmed information.
DeleteI fondly remember the days when people here used to comment that Ryanair would never succeed in ZAG because Croats did not like flying with low cost airlines.
ReplyDeleteI also fondly remember comments how Zagreb is a prestigious airport that does not need LCCs.
DeleteZAG was always an expensive destination in general to be reached due to the lack of competition and FR will force other airlines to lower prices.
ReplyDeleteExamples: ZAG-AGP 27.01 24€, ZAG-BGY 13.01 13€, ZAG-STN 14.02 20€
Is anyone flying to Manchester? That was a bit of a hit from Zagreb before what's their name collapsed.
ReplyDeleteRyanair flies to Manchester. Monarch was the airline that went bankrupt.
DeleteMichael O'Leary plans on carrying over ten million passengers in cooperation with Zagreb Airport over the next five to six years. Government will support OU purchase of 6 to 15 A220s. Something will have to give.
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DeleteThe whole of Zagreb and half of Slovenia will have to travel somewhere on a plane once a year.
DeleteI see no problems with that.
Ryanair has started loading since yesterday new routes from their bases for next summer. I think ZAG may see these additions soon.
ReplyDeleteHope for Zagreb - Hamburg. From Hamburg is no direct flight to Croatia at winter.
ReplyDeleteMilan Bergamo to Belgrade with Ryanair, sweet dreams.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Zagreb, will boost local economy.
Still waiting for Porto or Lisbon...
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