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United will increase frequencies on its seasonal service between Newark and Dubrovnik over the 2025 summer season. The carrier, the world’s fourth largest by seat capacity, will restore operations between the two cities almost a month ahead of this year, on May 1, and increase frequencies from four weekly to daily. Services will run until September 25. The carrier will deploy its 231-seat Boeing 767-400 aircraft on the route, featuring 34 seats in business class, 24 in premium economy, and the remaining 173 in economy.
In the past, Dubrovnik was also served by Delta, which maintained flights from New York’s JFK Airport for a single season in 2021, and by American Airlines with a route from Philadelphia in 2019. The airport’s CEO, Viktor Šober, recently said, “We are the only airport in Croatia with a nonstop service to the US. While we are currently connected to New York, one route is proving insufficient. We need another one, similar to what we had a few years ago. We have already entered negotiations, which I can say are rather mature, but there are other factors at play which are beyond our control. The primary challenge is the shortage of aircraft and delays in the arrival of new jets due to manufacturing and supply chain issues. It's a complex situation, making it difficult to secure these flights. However, I am confident that within the next year or two, we will have something concrete”.
Nearly 5 months of long haul from Dubrovnik, bravo Croatia! If I remember PanAm used to fly from JFK to Dubrovnik.
ReplyDeletePan Am flew in the 70s and 80s nonstop from JFK to DBV.
DeletePan Am had a base in Frankfurt and I believe flew to Dubrovnik from there. Not sure if they flew non stop to the US.
Delete^ they operated both nonstop and via FRA. Depending on the year.
DeleteJAT flew nonstop seasonally DBV-JFK with DC10.
DeletePan Am flew non stop with the A310 and 727/737 via FRA.
DeleteSensational!
ReplyDeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteThey're doubling the capacity in a year. Insane!
ReplyDelete🇺🇸❤️🇭🇷
ReplyDeleteAmazing news for Dubrovnik and Dalmatia. Would be amazing to see direct flights from the US to Split too
ReplyDeleteNot gonna happen, not because of demand, but because of infrastructure @SPU
DeleteThey should fly until end of SUTT and start early April. April and October are terrific months to enjoy Southern Dalmatia.
ReplyDeleteYes, they button their shirts on the back.
DeleteDubrovnik does not have good weather outside of June-September. And Americans don't travel as much. The new schedule is perfect.
DeleteDepends how old u are what yr interests are. Hiking, biking, cultural life, wine and olive oil degustations and temperatures around 18-23 C are for some visitors perfectly to visit Dalmatia.
DeleteThose visitors are in minority and will have to catch connecting flights. Or fly to California where they can do all those things.
DeleteIf it had not been for COVID, American Airlines would be flying daily from Philadelphia. Tickets were already on sale for 2020. But United is a better airline and New York is a better destination so overall things are better I think.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if UA is a better airline considering the equipment on this route is ancient.
DeleteUnited has new cabins on the 767-400 same as Delta.
DeleteUnited is a very good airline. They have decided to launch Nuuk, Dakar and Ulaanbaatar but not Zagreb for 2025.
Deletepitty for Zagreb, don`t understand why they are avoiding it
DeleteI haven't flown united or aa on long haul for a while, but on domestic I prefer American over the two.
DeleteVery strange. They also announced Bilbao, Faro, and Madeira among others. I guess they can operate these with their 737 MAX, but for ZAG they would need a larger bird, which they do not have at disposal right now.
DeleteThey're not using the 737 for Faro and Bilbao.
DeleteBut the 757-200 with wich they would not reach ZAG.
DeleteUA and AA sucks. Nothing compares to Delta. I asked AA to ban me for a life of flying with them.
DeleteUnited could have used B767 to launch Zagreb. Instead they used it to increase Dubrovnik to daily. Shows where priorities and demand is.
DeleteUA was known for a while to be the last choice of all the airlines flying to the US from Australia but after flying with the last year, I feel they are becoming much better and I'll be happy to fly with them again.
DeleteI used to fly Pan Am to and from Dubrovnik a lot in the 1980s and until practically the last flight when the war started. B727 from DBV to Frankfurt. It was via Zagreb, Budapest or non-stop, depending on the day of the week. In Frankfurt, you would connect on to a 747 to various US cities. There were also some flights from DBV to Munich and Zurich on the B737 to connect on a Pan Am B747 in ZRH to JFK. As far as I remember, the flight was never non-stop to the US. JAT flew their DC 10s non-stop to JFK and ORD, but only once a week, in the summer, I believe. Pan Am crews on the B727 were based in Germany. Some were Polish and Serbian. I remember one ex-JU F/A wearing a JU pin on her Pan Am uniform. An American passenger asked her why she was wearing the JU pin and she just shrugged.
ReplyDeleteThe A310 was used from FRA to DBV on rare occasions (peak demand). I knew the lady who ran the Pan Am office in Pile and she would give me a lot of info. The flight to Dubrovnik was never daily, either. It varied between two to five times per week. I still have all the old PA timetables.
Many thanks for all these interesting info!
DeleteDid Pan Am keep flights during winter time?
DeleteYes, Pan Am also flew there in winter. Sometimes, just once a week, especially as the political situation in Yugoslavia/Kosovo was starting to deteriorate (drop in tourist numbers).
DeleteI rechecked older timetables, and they did actually fly every day in summer when the service was launched around 1983-1984. In later years, it was around 4-5 times a week (summer). Some pax would even travel by road to and from Kosovo for this flight.