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Croatia Airlines is expected to take delivery of two more Airbus A220 aircraft by the end of next month, for a total of five in its fleet. It comes after it welcomed its third unit of the type last week. The remaining two jets slated for delivery in 2025 are due by the end of the year. At the same time, Croatia Airlines plans to retire one A320 jet this year, following the retirement of two Dash 8 turboprops earlier in 2025. The carrier plans to have a fifteen member A220 fleet by 2027.
Finally proper aircraft in fleet.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, the A319 was perfect for OU.
DeleteWell A220 has the same capacity.
DeleteThe vast majority of the airlines who once operated the A319 have abandoned it.
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DeleteA220 has the same capacity with enormous monthly lease rates which already caused further debts and losses compared to PAID OFF, OWNED AND FREE A319
These A319 are too old. You can use them for few more years and after that these will become useless to operate.
DeleteWhy are they rushing? The ones they have now are not flying 100%
ReplyDeleteso for peak summer months they will have...
ReplyDelete5 A220
4 A319 + 2 A320
4 DHC8
in total 15 aircraft... i guess they could push out a summer season with this setup
Replace DHC8s with ATRS and A319 with A320 and you have the perfect fleet for OU
DeleteA320 is too big for Zagreb routes
DeleteGood fleet strategy and helps them avoid expensive wet leases too.
DeleteThey are about to wet lease a number of turbo prop planes to replace the ones they are getting rid of. I guess tou consider that a good fleet strategy, along with their outstanding 58% load factor.
DeleteStop this nonsense with ATR-72, just cause you like it, does not mean others need to as well. The airlines chose their fleet according their needs. They don't need ATR-72, in fact is highly likely Croatian Airlines will never utilise that aircraft ever again. It took Croatian Airlines 10 years to sell its fleet of ATR-42-500, experience they don't like to repeat.
DeleteSeven new birds by the end of the year, pretty good stuff!
Delete...if you know what to do with them.
DeleteWell two of them are going to Ljubljana
DeleteAnd rest to wet lease LH/LX/OU
Delete*OS
DeleteThey are not going to be leased but I know many here want the worst for OU.
DeleteIs there any ground on which Ljubljana base is being speculated here? I know the yesterday's article, but there was nothing concrete in there
DeleteWhat more ground do you want? Some people here...
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DeleteTS, TW regularly send A330 to ZAG
IB, TK, LH regularly send A321 to ZAG
QR, BA, A3 regularly send A320 to ZAG
FZ, KL regularly send B738 to ZAG
FR/Lauda has 4 A320's based in ZAG
Therefore, A320 is not too big for ZAG routes
It is too big for incompetent uhljebs and appointed aparatchiks in OU which are executing political decisions to shrink and ruin the company.
It is too big for ZAG. You are just listing few examples (and few lies since LH doesn't operate A321 regularly and Iberia doesn't even have year round operations) and not the whole picture.
Delete"Croatia Airlines readies for more A220 deliveries" one would hope so, with 15 of them ordered :D
ReplyDeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteBravo OU!
ReplyDeleteI would like to put in co-relation two today's articles on ex-yu: one, JU readies to start the third North American destination, in addition to two more in the Far East, with wide body fleet which makes money, not only in JU, while OU readies to receive more regional aircraft to continue being shameful feeder for Liebe Mutti Lufti, for peanuts being paid for feeding and enormous losses as a result. And all of you writing here about proper fleet for OU, bright and shiny, Intergalactic Spaceship, Bravo Hrvatska, Bravo OU and similar, I have just one question for you : are you ashamed, at least a little bit?
ReplyDelete"wide body fleet which makes money". Buddy, no one knows that. JU definitely isn't the best example how to make successful long haul operations since they are reporting quite low LF on some routes.
DeleteWhy would I be ashamed for calling A220 proper aircraft?
Delete@21.12 Hey buddy, you can see Air Serbia's load factor and it is quite high, but good thing they phoned you and told you the real laod factors. Meanwhile, Croatia Airlines is at an amazing 58% load factor. I love how triggered so many of you are about Air Serbia. Instead, you should be triggered by the embarasment that is Croatia Airlines.
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