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Zagreb Airport handled 432.608 passengers in July, marking its busiest month on record and the second consecutive time it welcomed over 400.000 travellers in a single month. The figure represents an increase of 17.1% on 2023. The growth comes on the back of a 11.8% increase in the number of operated flights, which totalled 4.636 for the month. During the January - July period, Zagreb Airport welcomed 2.403.425 travellers through its doors, up 16.5% on last year, or an additional 340.420 customers. Strong growth is expected to continue into August, with scheduled seat capacity up 13.9%.
Zagreb’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, July 2024
Bravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDelete16.5% increase on last year is very impressive!
ReplyDeleteIt is but keep in mind that in summer 2023, Zagreb Airport had growth of under 1% compared to 2022.
DeleteThe rest of EU+ airpoers have even lower growth with few exceptions.
DeleteIt's because of Ryanair's fourth A320 this summer. I am hoping they go up to 5 A320s in 2025 but I think that's unlikely.
DeleteAnon 11:26 , what is the point of this comment ? ATH is in EU in july they had 9,5% and 3.600.000 passengers ,1.200.000 more than ZAG had in 7 months.
DeleteThe point is context. You are cherry picking Athens but not looking at the macro data at EU-Level.
DeleteDo you compare ATH with ZAG?
DeleteInterestingly, overall tourism numbers for Croatia are down in July. I guess more tourist from further away are visiting (so flying in) compared to drive in tourists.
ReplyDeleteZagreb Airport growth is driven by Ryanair, which has created thousands of outbound passengers. People who have never flown before are now flying.
DeleteThat's exactly it. The figures for July are down by 3% but at the same time the air traffic is up by 10%.
DeleteTraditional tourist emitting markets were impacted by bad weather and few other factors. Croatian heatwave and price gouging didn't help either.
DeleteJuly is down around 3% but August so far is up 6%, so total number will be increase. Also, pre season was the best ever, and bookings for post season are very good so far.
Delete^ Yeah the overall tourism numbers for the entire year, including July, are up.
DeleteGood to know the August so far and the post season bookings are fine.
I am worried that airport management will not want to honor the contract agreement they have to expand the airport after 5 million passengers. They are going to chase Ryanair away.
ReplyDeleteThey have the old terminal. Plus, not sure if you haven't noticed but it takes years to get anything approved and built in Croatia so even if the airport starts planning the expansion yesterday, they have at least 5 years until thy have to fund anything.
DeleteNot really. A friend of mine works for the Austrian company involved in the current taxiway upgrade works and there was no issues whatsoever with that tender. It went very fast, with 3 companies having applied.
DeleteI've asked him why didn't they get the permits before the high season and apparently it was about a certain type of asphalt which doesn't properly harden below 5°C. The weather had been very weird and all the way into April, morning temperatures were periodically very low, with frost occuring.
Anyway, I don't think there's a reason to worry about this.
That said, unlike some predictions I've seen here, I'm fairly certain ZAG won't reach 5 million passengers next year, so there's plenty of time for a proper tender next year, with the upgrade takin place in 2026.
Zagreb airport is heading for 4,3 million passengers this year, next year could hit 5.0 million on the dot or just over, but it'll depend on Ryan Air and Croatian Airlines ability to grow @Zagreb airport. Ryan air plans to expand in summer 2025 and this is where there could be some optimism for serious growth. As things stand atm, I think Zagreb airport is heading for around 4.7-4.8 million in 2025. We'll need to wait and see total seats available for 2025 before any real projection can be made for 2025, but for 2024 there are 5.4 million seats available, and as of July Zagreb airport is on good trajectory to reach 80% of seats offered for 2024.
DeleteIf there are only 5.85 million seats available in 2025, as preliminary data indicates, mind you this is early, not all flights and seats are scheduled, but so far there's 5.85 million, by end of this year could be easily 6 million or more seats, then based on 5.85 million figure and slightly improved load factor, we're looking at 4.8 million passengers in 2025.
Also to ad, in 2025, work on expanding terminal will start, late in 2025, very likely October or November, when traffic isn't as heavy, work will last about 18 months, but don't expect major works, they'll just add few things, mostly concerning phase 2A/B , 4 additional boarding bridges and 8 additional gates, all for non-Schengen passengers. There's also discussions to complete all Phase 2 stages due to overcrowding in busy months especially in Schengen areas of the airport. Phase 3 plans includes major expansion of the terminal and adjoining infrastructure.
DeletePhase 3
https://i.ibb.co/Mk0L8Gj/Clip-122.jpg -0 image shows footprint of future expanded terminal and new remote parking positions for up to 17 aircraft.
Phase 2 will expand terminal to deal with up to 10 million passengers. Phase 3 will expand that capacity to 20 million passengers. Phase 3 is expected not before 2035.
I'm pretty sure phase 2 was supposed to expand the terminal capacity to 8 million.
DeleteWhere did you get the information about 10 million from?
Anonymous 11:50, no need to worry, the plan is to move Ryan and other low fares companies to the old terminal, thus they'll need many years to reach 5 millions at the new terminal.
DeleteThere are 3 stages in phase 2, first will bring capacity to 8 million, the following stage will bring it to 10 million and final stage of phase 2 will up the capacity to 12 million. Phase 3 then will bring capacity to 15 million and final stage of phase 3 will bring it to over 20 million.
DeleteTerminal size increase with each phase/stage.
Phase 2A/B - 70 000sqm (work start around late 2025) capacity - 8-10 million
Phase 2C/D - 85000sqm (work start around 2030) capacity - 12 million
Phase 3 A/B - 142000sqm (work start around 2037) capacity - 15-25 million
Really nice.
ReplyDeleteThis year has been really great, congratulations ZAG!
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