NEWS FLASH
Ryanair has confirmed it is discontinuing its service between Dortmund and Zagreb. The last flight on the route, which is currently maintained twice per week, is planned for March 25. "Of course, we regret this development, but we will continue to offer our customers a wide range of travel destinations in the summer”, Dortmund Airport said in a statement. Ryanair is the third low cost carrier to have discontinued flights between the two cities over the past fifteen years. Both Wizz Air and easyJet, which no longer fly to the Croatian capital, had tried their luck on the route, discontinuing flights in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
How many aircraft will they base in Zagreb this year? I know that they announced the plans to have 7 but idk if that's gonna happen
ReplyDeleteWhat 7? They have 3 planes based in ZAG and no new routes announced for this summer.
DeleteIf you look the interview from the opening of the base both airport and Ryanair said that they expect up to 8 737 to be based in zagreb by 2023
DeleteI think it's not too hard to understand that that's clearly not happening
DeleteI'm asking how many are they gonna station there this summer, not why 7 isn't happening
DeleteRelying in inbound traffic isn't going to allow the base to grow, it needs outbound travel too and it is just not happening, the locals have not embraced travel.
DeleteThe exodus has started already! Good riddance to Ryanair! Long live OU!
ReplyDeleteWell said!!! And just as mr Pozdrav was claiming how loyal FR is to ZAG hahahah. They will vanish as soon as things start not going their way and find another opportunity.
DeleteExodus with 1 discontinued line? Wow. Strange thinking. I think FR is here to stay and that’s good for everyone. I cannot understand this region. That’s probably why it’s chronically underdeveloped and experiences populational exodus most of the time. Strange part of the world indeed.
DeleteFR and Wizz are not good for everyone...Just ask about 20k pax in balkans that got robbed out of canceled flights at the gate
DeleteТо је 8 -10 летова месечно.
DeleteLCCs and ZAG just don't go well with each other. The last sentence says enough...
DeleteHahahahahahahaha, OU used to fly from ZAG to 30 destinations, today it's 15. And FR introduced over 20 services in an eye blink and discontinued one. But that's more than enough for Criminal Organization Advocate to write about exodus of FR and long live OU. But in real life, we actually see quite opposite - OU in huge exodus from ZAG and FR increasing frequencies to plenty of profitable destinations, without bagging for donations from poor tax payers. And those advocating were obviously missing their Logic classes in high school, if they even made it that high with the education process
DeleteZagreb put all of their eggs in one basket, by lowering the fees for them...let's see what happenes this winter
ReplyDeleteoh good to see you have moved now on to troll ZAG
DeleteAll the eggs in one basket is the phrase used when an airport has one operator only, usually LCC and usually Ryan or Wizz. How can you say all the eggs in one basket for an airport served by 25 airlines from 3 continents, legacy and LCC?
Delete25 , airlines of which around 5 year-round 🤔
DeleteRest is seasonal.
Croatia Airlines, Trade Air, Air Serbia, Austrian, Lufthansa, LOT, THY, Aeroflot (temporary halted due to sanctions), KLM, British Airways, Air France, Iberia, Ryanair, Eurowings, Flydubai, Qatar Airways.... Oh, wait, I listed more than five. Ouch....
DeleteOr maybe this is just warning as ZG increased the fees?
ReplyDeleteSomething strange is going on with Dortmund Airport. They suddenly will also lose Riga, Plovdiv, Vienna and now Zagreb. Maybe it has got to do with demand or more people opting for Cologne instead.
ReplyDeleteBingo
DeleteOn the other hand Wizz upgraded many routes and a lot of them to daily, SunExpress doubles its frequencies and EW extends it's summer program.
DeleteIts the fourth airline tried the route. Germanwings was the first, when opened a base in DTM
ReplyDeleteI’m flying this route one per month… they have more pax than Weeze whit 1,3,5 flights…. What’s the reason??
ReplyDeleteLF for DTM-ZAG for Nov is 77.6%
ReplyDeleteAnd NRN?
Delete74,7% thats interesting.
Delete77.6 % that’s good… we’ll now it will be hard for our Gastro… only one piece of flights from CGN, DUS and NRN stay on direct line. Welcome back connecting flights 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
ReplyDeleteCroatians are "smart", they would rather drive >18h by bus to Dortmund than fly <2h just to save 5 Euro.
ReplyDeleteCroatians mostly live and work in southern part, Munich and Stuttgart. It's 6-7 hours by car from Zagreb, on full profile highway, with no borders. People generally could be subdivided into two groups, smart, and stupid. There are Croatians belonging to both groups, smart and stupid. But the person who generalizes things that much to call an entire nation "smart", definitely belongs to the second group, stupid, no matter what his or her ethnicity is.
DeleteI don't know about the rest of the x-YU, but I feel like there is still this lingering mystification around flying for a lot of Croatians - bordering some kind of a subconscious superstitious aversion. As if it's something you do only if you go to Australia or Canada and the idea that it's just "more safe and secure to be on the ground" type thing. Most of Germany is still in the zone that is for most part still very reachable with 7:00 to 17:00 range so that's just the default. There is very little interest for Mediterranean Europe "Sta cu tamo kad imamo isto i jos lijepse kod nas" and our diaspora is almost totally concentrated in Germany and now a bit in Ireland. Croats seem to like travelling to Prague but again that's busable. When it comes to increasing outbound travel the only potential I could see if direct US - Croatia flights.
ReplyDeleteMany Croatians own a holiday house or apartment at the coast or have family members or friends who own one. They usually travel to the coast by car or bus. These people have easy access to an accomodation and are used to a certain town / region / island. They will rarely travel to other countries for spending their summer holidays. When it comes to winter holidays, the average Croatian goes skiing to Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Bosnia where he also travels by car or bus.
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