Croatia Airlines has moved forward the launch of its incoming Airbus A220-300 aircraft to Monday July 29 and has outlined its first month of operations with the 149-seat jet. Destinations which will see the carrier’s newest fleet member on at least one occasion during either July or August include Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Paris, Skopje, Split, and Zagreb. Changes at this stage remain likely. The airline has so far scheduled the aircraft on flights only during July, August, and September, with a limited schedule in September itself. The A220, named Zagreb, has now been scheduled to make its first revenue service for the company on Monday, July 29 between Zagreb and Split on flights OU652/655.
The aircraft is due to make its first international revenue flight on July 30, as previously reported, with the routing Zagreb – Frankfurt - Split - Frankfurt - Zagreb. This will also be the case on July 31. However, on August 1, the A220 is due to make its first scheduled flights to both Dubrovnik and Paris, with the airline operating Zagreb - Paris - Dubrovnik - Paris - Zagreb, while on August 2 it will operate a domestic flight between Zagreb and Dubrovnik, followed by a Zagreb - Berlin rotation. During August, the aircraft will run on the Zagreb - Frankfurt service the most, on thirteen occasions, followed by Zagreb - Paris on nine flights, Split - Frankfurt on eight flights, Zagreb - Dubrovnik on seven flights and Zagreb - Berlin on six rotations.
Croatia Airlines’ A220-300 deployment, July and August
Based on its existing schedule, Croatia Airlines plans to operate four flights per day with the A220-300, with exception to August 10 when the aircraft has been scheduled on two operations at this time. The carrier is in the process of planning the jets deployment, with flights as of this morning scheduled up until September 16. During the first half of September, the jet has only been scheduled on services from Zagreb and Split to Frankfurt and Paris. Croatia Airlines’ first of fifteen A220s operated its first test flight last week and is expected to arrive in Zagreb within the next two weeks.
Good thing they came to their senses and decided to launch the aircraft on Zagreb-Split route.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Hope they will do some promotion around it and maybe reduce fares so people could try the new plane.
DeleteThe fares on that route really are nor very expensive.
Delete*not
DeleteI can't imagine that they won't make an event out of it.
DeleteZAG-FRA is their busiest route. So it makes sense to use the plane on these flights.
DeleteNo it doesn't. It makes sense to use the A320 on the Frankfurt route in the middle of the peak summer season.
DeleteWe are talking about A220.
DeleteWhy would they decrease the capacity on a route where all flights are near full all summer??
DeleteNot gonna happen
DeleteMid August maybe
^ they would not have scheduled it if they didn't know when the plane is coming. That is why they left it for so late.
DeleteGreat news of no more delays. That they will introduce it soon
ReplyDeleteWow thanks for the dates. Really appreciated.
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DeleteThose mean nothing
DeleteNice that Skopje will get the new plane! :)
ReplyDeleteGood to see DBV get the plane too.
DeleteI knew that they will use the plane to SKP as most of their flights now are operated by Sundair.
DeleteNot true. Today's flight to SKP is operated by Croatia Airlines for example. The overnight rotation was also Croatia Airlines.
DeleteTrue! 80% of their flights is with the a319 Sundair
DeleteSkopje won't be getting any new planes, where are you coming up with this?
Delete^ Maybe if you bothered to read the article before posting your comment or even checked the Croatia Airlines website on the dates listed in the article you would see the A220 scheduled.
DeleteOU is getting the plane, not Skopje!
DeleteYou must be fun at parties
Delete@11:54 Just because todays flights of OU to SKP are operated by their own plane does not mean that what i am saying is not true. Reconsider this so that in future you dont come up with such asumptions!
DeleteWhat assumptions? Two out of two SKP-ZAG flights today are operated by Croatia Airlines.
DeleteSo all these routes will have less capacity than originally planned with the A320 family?
ReplyDeleteThese were not planed with A320. These were all planed with A319.
DeleteWhat is the capacity difference?
DeleteThe OU A319s have 144, 145 and 150 seats, depending which one which configuration.
Delete^ thank you
DeleteSo the same or fewer seats than planned.
DeleteNo because A220 has 153.
DeleteOU A220 is configured with 149 seats. Read the article.
DeleteHave they had a second test flight yet?
ReplyDeleteNot yet
DeleteSometimes they only have one test flight.
DeleteEver wondered what the test flight showed?
DeleteThankfully it's not just Frankfurt that gets the new plane.
ReplyDeleteWell they did say they would gradually put it on other routes too.
DeleteCongrats OU
ReplyDeleteSo 8 difference cities will get the A220 in the first month. Not bad.
ReplyDeleteIs 4 flights per day underutilization? Or is it normal?
ReplyDeleteIt is normal. Two return flights. OU does not have a heavy schedule anyway and no scheduled flights from midnight until the morning.
Deleteok makes sense
DeleteThis is simply not true. Croatia Airlines has on average FIVE rotations per day for the Airbuses and the Dash aircraft have even more legs.
DeleteA typical Croatia Airlines Airbus will have a morning flight to Zagreb from e.g. Dubrovnik, then fly to Amsterdam and back to Zagreb, then an afternoon rotation to SKP, and then after coming back to Zagreb it goes to Frankfurt after which it returns to Zagreb and then flies to Dubrovnik.
4 rotations is normal use or underutilised depending on the carrier and routes.
DeleteLCC schedule to operate at least 8 a day so they make their profit. But ofcourse flag carriers charge more so its all just depends on the financial bottom line
Do keep in mind that a limited number of crew have so far been trained on this aircraft. So that had an impact on the number of times the aircraft is scheduled to fly in a day.
DeleteLCC does not operate at least 8 per day, they usually operate six. If the routes for the day are shorter, then the plane operates 8 sectors, for example Skopje-Budapest-Skopje, then to Rome and back, to Memmingen and back and in the evening to Milan and back.
Delete@Slav.Man please can you find me ONE aircraft of any LCC that operated more than eight flights in a day? Just one please? Since you write "at least" eight flights a day. Your comment is complete nonsense.
DeleteHahah well said. 8 sectors would only be possible on flights under an hour..which few LCCs do with regularity.
DeletePeople really do like to get caught up on the wrong thing don't they.
DeleteYes LCC some planes get less than 8 flights a day. But they always want to increase it and fly more.
9H-QAA Ryanair has 7 flights a day most days.
So which ones have more than 8 flights a day?
DeleteSlav.Man you write complete nonsense again. Ryanair has hundreds of aircraft so you could have picked any to prove your point. You picked an aircraft that had FIVE flights yesterday. You said LCCs have "at least eight". Five is much less than eight!!
DeleteIf you want to get hung up and specific things I write but somehow couldn't read. Where I wrote '7 flights most days'. Is that difficulty reading or just selective sight I wonder?
DeleteSurprised at how petty people want to get for no reason.
"Where I wrote '7 flights most days'" are you blind or just slow?
DeleteJust 2 weeks to go
ReplyDeleteIt's finally happening :)
DeleteNo it's not
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteIf you say so...
DeleteExcellent news!
ReplyDeleteThe good thing is that their on time performance which has been dreadful the past few months should improve.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. But the taxiway work is still causing problems in ZAG because Cro control has limited the number of departures per hour.
DeleteThe impact is minimal. It adds just 4 minutes to taxiing.
DeleteIt is not about 4 minutes of taxing it is that the number of flights that can land and depart within an hour that has been limited.
DeleteZagreb is not Heathrow. There are only three hours in a day when the restriction is delaying take offs and landings. And, in each case, by just 4 minutes of extra taxiing, so also 4 minutes of circling on approach to ZAG. The impact is there but it is very small.
DeleteLove it
ReplyDeleteThe taxpayer also
DeleteEntry into service will be rather quick. I assume plane will be delivered to ZAG next week.
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason for it to take too long.
DeleteBring to Zadar too please
ReplyDeleteWill all the planes get this updated OU livery?
ReplyDeleteWhy? They are getting rid of all the non A220 planes.
DeleteNo they won't. Just the A220s.
Delete'Some planes still don't have the updated livery introduced 5 years ago.
DeleteCan't wait to see the plane flying in this livery.
DeleteThe thing that bugs me about this livery is the way they wrote "Zagreb _ A220-300" why not just write Zagreb at the front of the plane? What's with the underscore and aircraft type?
Delete^ I agree. I don't see the point in that either.
DeleteMaybe to promote the new aircraft type??
DeleteThe livery will change everything, that's the most important
DeleteI'm guessing OU will soon start retiring some of its A320 family aircraft.
ReplyDeleteThey will first get rid of the wet leases.
DeleteWell done Croatia Airlines.
ReplyDeleteJust booked ZAG-SPU on 29th. Looking forward to the first flight.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteI hope they don't change it but it makes sense to me that put the A220 inaugural on a domestic route.
DeleteIt won't change.
DeleteForget it! No flights before 14.08. ...
DeleteNew era for Croatia Airlines.
ReplyDeleteI hope so but the management is unchanged.
DeleteAgree, a much more important new era would an airline with capable management. Then it would make no significant difference if the plane was 0 or 10 years old.
DeleteThanks for the entire schedule in August! They might make changes but still a good guide.
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DeletePity the plane won't make it in time to carry Croatian Olympic team to Paris.
ReplyDeleteIt can bring them back in August.
DeleteKonačno su se dozvali pameti i odlučili da prvi let bude Split , nikad nije kasno . Mogli su i turneju po svim hrvatskim aerodromima .
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DeleteThat should have been absolutely mandatory. And they should have had a panoramic flight across the Adriatic coast. And charged for it! Instead they are putting it in a route that is probably almost sold out already.
DeleteStop listening to ANALitičar.
DeleteStop promulgating his ideas.
DeleteAnalticar najbolje zna- ne samo o avijaciji, nego tuzimu, mazoretkinjama, bmw-ovima
DeleteGood luck OU. Hope the plane performs well and does not end up grounded like at Cyprus Airways and Bulgaria Air otherwise it would be problematic with the schedule until the second A220 arrives.
ReplyDeleteYes, one is a problem ... Two will solve it
DeleteGreat
Hope there won't be anymore delays.
ReplyDeleteOf course there won't be
DeleteNo delays, no loses
Happy to see Skopje included on the list. Pity no Sarajevo though.
ReplyDeleteSarajevo is operated by Dash and its obvious they won't be putting the A220 on those routes anytime soon.
DeleteWill there be a special flights for the media before the first ZAG-SPU flight?
ReplyDeleteAll flights before 14.08. planed with 220 changed to Q400/319/320 ...
ReplyDeleteThanks for publishing the schedule!
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