Ryanair will further expand its operations from the Croatian capital this upcoming summer season by increasing frequencies across its Zagreb network, in addition to the previously announced five new routes from the city - Girona, Alicante, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca, and Pisa. The budget carrier plans to have just over 100 departing flights from Zagreb each week during the summer, or an additional nineteen weekly services. Frequencies will be increased to Malta, Malaga, Basel, Beauvais, London Stansted, Charleroi, Rome, Gothenburg, Weeze, and Podgorica. In addition, the carrier will maintain a weekly service to Lanzarote, which was launched this winter season and will continue throughout the summer months.
Planned Ryanair Zagreb frequency growth on existing routes, summer 2024
The carrier has confirmed it will not bring back three routes which were maintained last summer, including Bratislava, Brindisi and Memmingen. In total, Ryanair plans to have 37.222 weekly seats on its Zagreb operations this summer (both directions included), representing an increase of 21.8% on the same period last year. The airline is expected to fuel growth at Zagreb Airport, which is already averaging a 12% increase in capacity during the peak summer months. To help cater for the growth across its Croatian network this summer, which includes the launch of its new base in Dubrovnik and the expansion of its existing bases in both Zagreb and Zadar, the airline recently held a recruitment drive for forty new cabin crew members in the Croatian capital.
Commenting on its growth on the Croatian market, Ryanair said, “Ryanair, Croatia’s largest airline, has delivered low fares, connectivity, and tourism to Croatia for over fifteen years and has single-handedly driven Croatia’s post-Covid traffic recovery. With the opening of its new Dubrovnik (two aircraft) base and three aircraft bases at both Zagreb and Zadar, Ryanair also offers flights to four other Croatian airports - Osijek, Pula, Rijeka and Split. Ryanair will continue to deliver Europe’s lowest fares and greater connectivity for Croatian citizens”.
I wonder how Croatia Airlines plans to remain competitive with their Zagreb-Split-Rome flights against Ryanair's 5 weekly Zagreb-Rome?
ReplyDeleteNow imagine when they have to start flying that route with even more capacity with the A220.
DeleteThey do not intend to remain competitive.
DeleteActually they do not care about it as long as CRO Government is paying for their mistakes.
Isn't it in the government's interest then to find someone who can make the airline profitable and competitive? I don't mean a foreign partner but a different management team.
DeleteObviously not.
DeleteAll public interes is nothing else than corruption. Besides that, big capital ciities can work perfectly without a national air carrier, eg Budapest
DeleteYou think there's no corruption around Wizz in Budapest? That would be first...
DeleteI think many people here are unaware of Hungary, Malev and Wizzair's story, therefore dare to praise Budapest as an example.
DeleteGood bay OU.
DeleteGood bay??? Finally a smart post on this site.
DeleteThere is no Airline more corrupt then Ryanair!
Delete08:26 Jasmine, is that you?
DeleteOU couldn't make ZAG-FCO non-stop in 35 years and FR is going 5 weekly after a couple of years of operations.
ReplyDeleteShame on OU's management.
+1
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteDoes it mean FR will have 4 planes based in Zagreb?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteDefinitely 4th plane coming
DeleteWhy didn't they announce it?
DeleteThey'll do a press conference in March.
DeleteIt says 3 in the article.
DeleteDespite living 5 min from LJU.. really happy ill use Spain routes frequently
ReplyDeleteSame.
DeleteDo OU and FR fly to the same airport in Rome from Zagreb?
ReplyDeleteYes, to Fiumicino.
DeleteCroatia Airlines does not fly direct to Rome. Just because the flight code is the same, it doesn't mean it's not a connecting flight.
DeleteDaily Malta wow👌
ReplyDeleteIs Malta that popular among Croatians?
DeleteProbably Slovenians
DeleteNo. Croatians dont travel. They never leave their homes. They dont even go for a walk down the street. Even the numbers in Dalmatia are all from Slovenian travellers.
DeleteBut who want to go to Malta when you have Croatian coast. Probably some people from Zagreb and Slovenians
DeleteThe Croatian public wants to go because the Croatian coast is becoming crazy expensive. It is cheaper to fly somehwhere else and spend the holiday there.
DeleteThat just media. If you want you can find nice place for affordable price along the coast and good restaurant with a ok prices. Problem are people who don`t like planning they just want to do everything in few clicks
DeleteAnonymous 9:59, so according to your logic a person has yo go to the same place the whole life?
DeleteThankfully, we have anon 10:10 to tell us how it actually is. Phew.
DeletePeople go to see something new, one of the purposes of traveling. The Croatian coast will always be there waiting close by.
Delete10:11 Bruh, what are you talking about?
DeleteYou have your own coastline so why go anywhere else...what kind of an argument is that??
DeleteItalians and Greeks have even longer coastlines, yet they travel to other places, to see new things, different cultures...etc.
About a million Italians visit Croatia alone every year.
Malta is an incredibly interesting country, with fascinating history.
What about Pafos? Will be back or not?
DeletePaphos is operating in winter too.
DeleteGood development. Let's just hope it all happens.
ReplyDeleteIm very pleasantly surprised that Podgorica is going up to three times weekly. That should boost passenger numbers because the twice-weekly schedule was not good last summer.
ReplyDeleteYes there is a big tourist campaign in Zagreb area for Montenegro
DeleteWith many Croats complaining about the prices at their seaside I can see this working. I don't know about the yields though, it's a short flight for Ryan to offer you all the things they're selling.
DeleteMontenegrin seaside has become very expensive too. On top of that you usually have to swim in a sewer.
DeleteIt's nowhere near "very expensive".
DeleteIt's expensive for what it is
DeleteIt kind of makes you wonder where was Croatia Airlines? Why didn't it start Malta 4 or 5 years ago.
ReplyDeleteCroatia Airlines had 30 years to launch leisure routes. Didn't cross their mind.
DeleteRyanair's success is a mirror to Croatia Airlines' failure.
Delete^ Exactly.
DeleteI have to laugh with them flying daily(!) to Malta and OU just ignoring it like wtf is Malta...
ReplyDeleteI can picture that in the Buzin office as they sip on their coffee.
DeleteRyanair has achieved more from ZAG than OU in 30+ years to be honest.
Delete@9.25 Yes, me too. It has to be like Državni posao, with wall map of Europe and them trying to locate Malta while sipping the third morning coffee...
DeleteExactly :D :D
DeleteJU has been flying to Malta more than 30 years ago from Belgrade. Malta was always more popular in Belgrade than in Zagreb.
DeleteYou make a destination popular, it doesn't happen suddenly. OU didn't make any destination popular, not just Malta.
DeleteThey made Frankfurt popular 😂
DeleteTrue that. They didn't even make Croatian seaside destinations popular. It was an Irish company that made a boom in Zadar and neighborhood. They left one Dubrovnik hanging under 2019 level. Dubrovnik hey, you can sell it to a blind man. Notorious company.
DeleteRyanair also seems to make London work without a problem, while OU, which has P2P and transfer passengers, sold its slots.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, they lost in Munich/Memmingen, a rare L for Ryan in Zagreb
DeleteOU made a big mistake selling 5 of it's Heathrow slots.
DeleteA big mistake is an euphemism. It's a criminal.
DeleteIt was bound to come back to bite them one day.
DeleteCroatia Airlines was doing well on the Heathrow route until it sold the mowing slots, thereby losing all transfer traffic from Zagreb onwards because the evening flights arrive at 23:15 and all the regional flights have left by then. Also when they discontinued Pristina they lost traffic.
DeleteThe loses on Heathrow were because of lousy traffic planning. There were several compounding reasons for that; previous rotation of that airplane, small turnover time before the flight, lousy planing of connecting domestic flights, inaccurate planets flight time...
DeleteInaccurate planned flight time
DeleteNot surprised about Malta at all. It's one of their busiest routes from Zagreb.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest benefit of Ryanair's base is that more and more is people going on short weekend breaks and travelling a lot more.
ReplyDeleteExactly what CA has systematically devastated all those years, among other following deals with some travel agencies that resulted in higher fares for the eventual city breaker... In the end people gave up and stopped going for city breaks. Only those who really had to, flew...
DeleteIs it too much to hope that Croatia Airlines will respond to this?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteBy looking Ryanair's network at Zagreb, it is obvious that some room (key destinations) has been left reserved. Let's hope OU got its lesson during the last couple years, won't pretend as if it's the king of Zagreb Airport and use the opportunity instead of yammering.
DeleteCroatia Airlines still has the opportunity to launch Stockholm, Berlin, Bucharest, Helsinki, Prague
Deletenot bad at all. Although they were announcing 4th and 5th plane back in 2021. Hoping the 5th plane comes next year.
ReplyDeleteThey were not announcing it, they were saying that's their target growth
DeleteImagine comparing Ryanair (ULCC where passengers are tortured) and OU, a legacy carrier.. I'd rather fly on empty OU planes than on Ryanair's no legroom chair.
ReplyDeleteThere are not too many destinations you can fly to with OU.
DeleteWhat a stupid comment. If you want more legroom purchase a seat in the first row or next to the emergency exits. The difference between normal carrier and LCC these days is minimal in Europe, so its just not worth spending more money for the same product. In this case it is not even the same product bacause with OU you will probably need to connect in FRA or MUC of course while with Ryanair you can enjoy on more routes, so totally not worth it.
DeleteRyanair's A320s in Zagreb have the same legroom as Croatia Airlines' Dash aircraft. Ryanair jets are bigger and more comfortable and far less loud.
DeleteThe customer treatment on Ryanair is terrible. Never ever flying them no matter how cheap. And nobody normal minds connecting in FRA or MUC as long as it's on a legacy carrier.
DeleteJust because you think they have terrible customer service, doesn't mean we're not normal for not wanting to fly with a "legacy carrier" that charges serveral times more.
DeleteIt is not normal to prefer an expensive connecting flight over a cheaper direct flight.
DeleteWhat a comment... Yes, the flight with that crappy Dash is a real treat
DeleteCroatia Airlines needs to get its act together in ZAG and fast.
ReplyDeleteThat ship has sailed a long time ago.
DeleteHow many destinations will Ryanair have from Zagreb in total this summer?
ReplyDelete30
DeleteSo basically half of all the destinations out of Zagreb.
DeleteIt is very funny how people here are surprised that Zagreb can make work seaside destinations despite having the Croatian coast so close. Guys, hear me out, people are curious and want to try and see new places in their life. After a while even the Croatian coast could become boring and...expensive.
ReplyDeleteYou get much better value for money in places like Malta and Spain.
DeleteAnyone who thinks all of Spain is a "place" has to be a troll
DeleteThe only one surprised with success of other seaside destinations is Croatia Airlines.
DeleteWhat about Sofia? Will be back or not?
ReplyDeleteYes, 2 weekly like last summer.
Deletewow Memmingen is a surprise but I guess Zagreb is probably too close to Munich
ReplyDeleteI think not, I think Memmingen is too far away from Munich for most people.
Delete4h Munnic - ZAG fly... 6h Munic - ZAG whit a car
Delete@11.14 you are obviously not from München
Deletefrom Munich main station via FMM to ZAG, it takes at least 4 hours with everything (train, bus, boarding)
DeleteNot surprised. German economy is struggling and countries' GDP growth rates are highly correlated with the commercial aviation. Add the operational problems in German airports and voila, another Germany route is gone.
DeleteBut they have just increased BNX so I guess Bosnian diaspora works for the healthier companies than Croatian and Bosnian pax make less operational problems at the airports......
DeleteThey increased it for a grand total of 2 months as it says in the article. For the Easter holidays.
DeleteIf the situation is dire, holidays are first to be cancelled, my friend.
DeleteIt's about both OU and LH having more than enough flights to Munich. 5 daily altogether.
Deleteperson who commented on Ryanair legroom.. British Airways..a do called " legacy carrier" ( which is nonsense as you pay for everything..bags..seats.. cup of coffee) has WORSE seats than Ryanair.which has .better legroom. And the Ryanair flights on Lauda Air airbus ( which I believe is from ZAG base) is quite OK.. certainly no worse than Croatia Airlines
ReplyDeleteLauda is the same as Croatia Airlines's Airbuses and it's better than Croatia Airlines's Dashes.
Delete"..Ryanair said, “Ryanair, Croatia’s largest airline.."
ReplyDeleteFunny
What do you mean by that?
DeleteWhen Valencia???
ReplyDeleteI flew to Valencia from Trieste. Easy to get to with FlixBus and train
DeleteMan, bus, train, airplane - you only needed a boat to have all possible means of transport used to reach popular European destination and you call it "easy to get". What's not easy to get then?
DeleteTake a chill pill. Valencia is not that popular. It has three times fewer tourists than Edinburgh.
DeleteI flew there from Timisoara, you flew there from Trieste, do we really have a conversation about Valencia popularity when we reached it from third-tier airports? Although it wasn't my point at all.
DeleteYou went from Slovenia to TSR?
DeleteI'm lucky to have AirSerbia flying from Belgrade! 😁
DeleteCongrats to neighbouring ZAG from Slovenia. While LJU has a healthy mix of legacy carriers already, ZAG has also that + a strong LCC presence. That's something we would like to have in LJU also.
ReplyDeleteHardly you can have it at LJU and ZAG at the same time.
DeleteSure you can, capacity would be added and split. For example, Stansted 7pw from LJU, 7 pw from ZAG.
DeleteWould be great if Wizz came to LJU. Then ZAG and LJU people can have wide options on where to fly, and for what price
DeleteAnonymous 11:28, it would be nice for Lj, but complicated. Even Trieste is now a Ryan base.
Deletewell you could have it in ljubljana if you can have it in trieste and 2x in venice ...
DeleteThey need to start ATH, Aegean is too expensive and OU is not even direct.
ReplyDeleteUnlikely because they can't qualify for incentives on Athens route because it is already served.
DeleteThe same applies for Rome, yet they launched it and are increasing it now.
DeleteNot true. Don't post about things you don't know about. Rome was launched as Ciampino and so it qualified. It was then swapped to FCO when CIA underwent renovations
DeleteHighly doubt about that but OK. What about Dublin?
DeleteNo, Rome Fiumicino was able to get discounts because Croatia does not fly non-stop to FCO.
Delete@16:56 Again, don't post comments if you don't know what you're talking about. Ryanair never launched FCO. It launched ZAG-CIA. Then when Ciampino was undergoing construction, the route was temporarily swapped to Fiumicino but they just kept it there permanently.
DeleteZAG-PRN would have been great
ReplyDeleteNice growth from ZAG! Croatia airlines, shame on you!
ReplyDeleteExcellent for Zagreb! 😃
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean tbere is no growth in frequency and destinations planned by FR for ZAD this summer??
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about? There is no mention of Zadar because the article is about Zagreb.
DeleteWhat, no Vrankvurt Han, no Minken?
ReplyDeleteThey fly to Podgorica. Interesting how OU left fre space.
ReplyDelete