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Zagreb Airport handled 422.862 passengers in what has become its busiest September on record. It also marks the fourth consecutive time it welcomed over 400.000 travellers in a single month. The figure represents an increase of 14% on 2023. The growth comes on the back of a 7.8% increase in the number of operated flights, which totalled 4.564 for the month. During the first three quarters of the year, Zagreb Airport welcomed 3.265.295 travellers through its doors, up 15.9% on last year, or an additional 447.827 customers. Strong growth is expected to continue into October, with scheduled seat capacity up 14.7%.
Zagreb’s largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, September 2024
Transat's capacity is very impressive. Sad they're only seasonal
ReplyDeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDelete422.862/532.000 seats offered. That comes out to be 80%. I guess OU did not do so well.
ReplyDeleteZagreb is on the track to 4.3 million passengers this year, as things stand, October will also be over 400 000, I estimate it'll be just over 400 000, could be 402000, November will see massive drop down to 320 000, and December could be slightly better, around 325 000. Add all these up:
ReplyDelete3.265 + 400 + 320+ 325 = 4290, total however could be anywhere between 4.29 and 4.32 million. So 4.3 million basically. I'll be doing several flights to Zagreb and out, so I'll contribute to December noumbers (noumbers, not numbers, proper spelling of the word).
Right now it depends on OU, they should keep this schedule. I fear they might start cutting.
DeleteZagreb is starting to remind me of Belgrade 10 years back just before Etihad jumped into JAT.
ReplyDeleteLow cost carriers building a base for travel and now you just need a carrier who will take advantage of Zagreb improved position. OU could still do it with the correct people at the helm.
problem is, there aren't any decent ppl at the helm....
DeleteOn top of that, we cannot have strong LCC base and strong national carrier here. It is simple as ZAG is not that big market, it would become over saturated like Sofia and soon Tirana and might collapse if someone would hit on Ryan. Look what happen to Skopje.
DeleteNaa, Zagreb isn't big market atm, it will be, soon enough. Slovenia, Croatia, tourism and noumber of large European carriers, not so many LCCs, but no doubt should Ryan air depart, Wizz air would waltz in like on a blind date and commit incest before you knew it.
DeleteExactly. I was just thinking the same thing. Zagreb reminds me of Belgrade circa 2013. - 2014. And yes, if someone capable invested into, or bought OU altogether ZAG has great potential.
DeleteWith that said, I don't think ZAG will ever have the same number of travelers as BEG, simply because BEG is the only relevant entry point to Serbia.
Croatia, on the other hand has multiple successful airports.
That's why BEG will eventually reach and surpass 10 million passengers...potentially 12 - 13 million as well.
The only way ZAG could achieve at least similar pax number to BEG, within the next 20 years or so, would be establishing itself as a hub and directly competing with Belgrade.
Otherwise Zagreb's plateau is likely 8 - 8.5 million passengers, with Split's being around 5 million, Dubrovnik's 4 - 4.5 million, Zadar's 2 - 2.5 million, Pula's around 1.5 million.
Rijeka will remain where it's at and given the direction in which it's going anyway, it'll likely be transformed into an air force logistics base. Osijek could go up to 500k, especially given the new large investments and industrial development in that region.