Ryanair, Croatia Airlines and Lufthansa will add the most capacity on the Croatian market this summer season when compared to 2024, contrasting with easyJet, Volotea and airBaltic, which will shed the most available seats. Ryanair will dominate with its 4.065.726 seats, almost double the size of the country’s flag carrier. Fuelling its growth are new routes from Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, as well as increased frequencies on existing services. The budget carrier will have 297.694 additional seats on last year, including an extra 214.836 at its Zagreb base, an additional 49.336 seats in Dubrovnik, and an added 2.894 seats at its Zadar base, which is its largest in Croatia over the summer.
Croatia Airlines will boast 2.238.389 seats on the Croatian market this summer season, an increase of 321.804. It will add the most capacity in Croatia this year. It comes as a result of the launch of five new routes from Zagreb, frequency growth across its network, and the introduction of additional Airbus A220 aircraft in its fleet. Lufthansa ranks as one of the top three fastest growing airlines in Croatia, with a boost of 85.728 seats bringing its total to 519.490. The airline's growth is attributed to increased frequencies on its services to Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar and Pula this summer.
On the other hand, easyJet, Croatia’s third largest airline during the summer, will see the most significant reduction in capacity, decreasing its available seats by 46.018 to a total of 1.422.716. This decline mainly results from the airline ceasing all operations to Rijeka and discontinuing one route each to Dubrovnik and Pula. Similarly, Volotea will cut 32.784 seats after reducing frequencies on a number of routes, most of which will now operate just once per week. Additionally, airBaltic will reduce its capacity by 24.742 seats due to the discontinuation of several routes, including flights from Vilnius and Tallinn to Dubrovnik and reduced frequencies on other services, affecting its operations in Croatia.
Good to see OU finally growing.
ReplyDeleteAbout bloody time.
DeleteHow many seats will OU add in ZAG alone?
ReplyDelete246.497 seats at the moment.
DeleteA bit more than FR this year. Not bad.
DeleteI can definitely see Franjo Tudman airport reaching 4.8 million pax this year. Possibly more.
DeleteNot bad at all.
DeleteActually incredible growth by OU, that's nice to see
ReplyDeleteI would say most incredible is by Ryanair. They keep adding massive amounts of capacity year after year.
DeleteRyanair has been expanding aggressively in Croatia for some time.
DeleteOU this year has bigger capacity growth than FR.
DeleteBoth in absolute numbers and of course as a percentage.
OU growing available capacity by 15% is huge!
It was about time it reached 2019 levels.
Delete@09:24 Not true. Ryanair is adding more seats. It literally says it in the article.
Delete^ I think they are referring to operations at Zagreb Airport.
DeleteWell, Croatia Airlines is CROATIA airlines, not Zagreb Airlines.
DeleteFR is adding 297k whilst OU is adding 321k
DeleteSorry, I thought you meant year-round. My mistake.
DeleteAnon 09:54 Zagreb IS very important because it's the only airport with year round traffic, so YES, it is the MAIN AIRPORT.
DeleteThe only airport with year-round traffic?
DeleteFRIDAY 7 MARCH (today)
Dubrovnik flights
- Zagreb (3 flights)
- London Gatwick
- London Heathrow
- Barcelona
- Frankfurt
- Vienna
Split flights
- Zagreb (4 flights)
- Munich
- Cologne
- Amsterdam
- Pula
- Frankfurt
- Rome
Osijek flights
- Zagreb (2 flights)
- Pula
- Munich
Zadar flights
- Pula
Rijeka flights
- London Gatwick
Pula flights
- Split
- Osijek
- Zagreb
What are you talking about?
Poor Rijeka
ReplyDeleteThe director is totally incompetent.
Deletescandals are mentioned..Director ignored an approach from British Airways in 2018/2019 for LCY-RJK day 5, May to Oct using Embraer. BA will never consider again ..unrelated to LHR-PUY which BA chose to drop after 10 years or so..to use valuable slots at LHR..elsewhere. RJK is a disgeace. real pity.
DeleteHow come everyone is fine with the current management even though the results are terrible?
DeleteBecause of politics. And because employees get paid without having much work to do. It's perfect for them.
DeleteGreat news for Croatian tourism with these expansions. More seats and routes mean more visitors, which is always good for the economy. Kudos to Ryanair and Croatia Airlines for the growth!
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteSad to see airBaltic pull out of some routes. Their flights were a direct link to Northern Europe which we definitely needed more of, not less.
ReplyDeleteair Baltic is on the brink of bankruptcy so no surprise.
DeleteSure they are...
DeleteWell their own board members said they needed to be bailed out by Lufthansa. They had massive loses last year.
DeleteLH bought shares, you need to look up the definition of bail out.
DeleteEspecially for an airline that keeps growing.
Air Baltic had a loss of €48.5 million in the first nine months of last year. Loss in 2024 will be over 50 million but they still haven't curiously published their results. It's loss during the first half of the year was €90 million.
DeleteGood explanation of their financial state
https://news.err.ee/1609425802/aviation-expert-airbaltic-has-to-collapse-financially-at-some-stage
Air Baltic is definitely not doing well financially and it is no conspiracy. I don't understand why some here, whenever someone writes that some western Europe airline is not doing well financially, have the need to defend them as if they are on their payroll.
DeleteBecause there is a notion in this region that the west can make no mistake. Air Baltic overexpanded. That is why they are wet leasing so any of their aircraft, cutting routes and were frantically searching for an investor.
DeleteAirBaltic is in the West????
DeleteAnother record year for Croatian aviation incoming.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteLast year there were 13 million passengers. How many could we expect this year?
DeleteWell over 14 million!
DeleteI agree. I think 14 million is doable. Let's see.
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteGreat numbers
ReplyDeleteBiggest ex-Yu market.
DeleteI'm surprised Ryanair is only adding Palermo from Zagreb this year. Was expecting more new routes.
ReplyDeleteThey can't add several new routes each year. Most of this growth in capacity is coming from the new routes they launched from Zagreb mid last year.
DeleteAccording to the agreement with FR that was published here, they have certain passenger target they need to reach each year. And with the frequency increases they will reach them easily.
DeleteRyanair launches new routes every two years. It's the same in Dubrovnik, they are not growing much this year.
DeleteLet's see what they do in ZAG next year. I think 2026 is when their current agreement with ZAG ends. Maybe we see them move to the old terminal next year.
DeleteThat would be a shame because there is no lounge there, and I doubt they would open one.
DeleteLounge for LCC?
DeleteIs easyjet launching any new route this year from/to Croatia?
ReplyDeleteYes several but the cuts are bigger. It's not just four routes but some frequencies too.
DeleteAnd also the new routes all start in July and mostly last 2 months.
DeleteNew easyJet routes are Liverpool - Split, Porto - Split, Milan Linate - Split, Bordeaux - Dubrovnik and Lyon - Zadar
DeleteFinally OU has woken up. We will have to wait and see at what cost for their bottom line.
ReplyDeleteLove it
ReplyDeleteVery impressive
ReplyDeleteWhich airport is the biggest winner this summer in Croatia in terms of capacity growth?
ReplyDeleteI think ZAG.
DeleteCongratulations Croatia.
ReplyDeleteReally good numbers from FR.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteLike always
Deletehow LH has bigger growth than AFKL in Croatia? doesnt have any logic admin.
ReplyDeleteThe numbers are not by group. Air France-KLM is a group same as Lufthansa Group which would be much bigger than Air France-KLM
DeleteCurrently, Air France has an extra 6.502 seats this summer and KLM an additional 66.838 seats.
DeleteThat's massive for KLM.
DeleteYes from this article 2nd and 3rd paragraphs about Croatia growth
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/02/klm-plans-27-growth-on-ex-yu-markets.html
^ Nice 👍 Forgot about that
DeleteAF not growing much though.
DeleteVery happy to see Croatia Airlines growing finally out of Zagreb. It only took 6 years...
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see Croatia Airlines stepping up with new routes and the A220s. Always preferred flying with them for the service quality.
DeleteWhat service quality? Delays, bad flight times, poor catering, high prices, old aircraft interiors, unfriendly crew?
DeleteIt's still high standard in comparasion to other regional airlines. Especially now with new A220s.
DeleteYou mean the high standard where business class passengers are served a box or where the cabin crew goes to chat with her friend for the rest of the flight?
DeleteDon't pay attention guys! It's Kradeze supporter and crime, corruption and incompetence advocate who speaks of A220 as of Intergalactic Spaceship and who bravoes every single idiotic move uhljebs and aoaratchiks in OU make. He also spits regularly on every single, fact based and much needed criticism of OU. Maybe It's even Bravo Hrvatska guy. If not, belongs to the same category. So just forget about him - he doesn't deserve any attention or comment
DeleteIt's a bit sad to see easyJet cutting back. I always thought they would open a base in Croatia.
ReplyDeleteThey fly only seasonally from Croatia.
DeleteSo?
DeleteNot going to happen but it would be great for them to resume flights to Zagreb after many many years.
DeleteDo you happen to remember where they flew from to Zagreb?
DeleteLondon Gatwick, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Dortmund.
DeleteThanks, I think only Dortmund isn't served out of those.
DeleteDortmund was served by Ryanair and didn't work out. There are also no flights to Gatwick.
DeleteYou can fly to Gatwick with Croatia Airlines twice a year LOL
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2018/10/trip-report-croatia-airlines-london.html
^ these flights are no longer in operation for some time.
DeleteYes they are.
DeleteI am booked on this flight in October 2025.
DeleteThey operate it twice a year for positioning purposes when the plane operates first and last flight from Split. Sorry I read the original comment as twice per week which is why I was confused
DeleteIt's not a positioning flight. They just don't want to fly Gatwick-Split-Zagreb for some reason and so they cut out the Split bit.
DeleteOdd. Why do they do it like that?
DeletePity Volotea has some really niche routes.
ReplyDeleteVolotea this year is focusing on Spain, France and Italy.
DeleteAlso its growth will be in the single digits.
They are going after increased margins and profits so that in 2026 will get listed in the Madrid stock exchange.
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation
DeleteA pity Ryanair moved the flight days on VIE RJK instead of friday to thursday... so taking 2 days free to fly with them and on monday back... well... maybe the car is better.
ReplyDeleteYes mucked it up for weekend holiday
DeleteProbably they couldn't get slot on RJK for Friday so they had to change for Thursday. It's wellknown how busy RJK is after Palalalalalić took over and how difficult it is to get desired slot there 😂😂😂.
DeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteHow many Airbus and Q400 planes are Croatia Airlines planning to retire for the remainder of this year?
ReplyDeleteJust enough to make much bigger losses
DeleteLufthansa is the only surprise to me.
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