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Canada's Air Transat has delivered on an earlier promise to upgrade its seasonal flights between Toronto and Zagreb next year. The carrier will bring forward the service resumption to May 31, instead of mid-June, and will operate flights twice per week (Tuesdays and Sundays from Toronto), up from this year's one weekly flight. Operations will continue to be maintained with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Services will run until October 18. In June, Air Transat's Commercial Vice President, Gilles Ringwald, said the airline's operations to Croatia in 2017 would largely depend on this year's performance. "This is a seasonal service running between June and October because our estimates show there is low demand during the winter. If we achieve satisfactory results this summer, we could extend the season next year", Mr Ringwald said, adding that the leisure airline plans to carry some 5.000 passengers on its seventeen return flights to Zagreb in 2016. "We are always looking for new opportunities and could introduce additional frequencies on the route next year. It will all depend on this summer's results", he noted.
Canada's Air Transat has delivered on an earlier promise to upgrade its seasonal flights between Toronto and Zagreb next year. The carrier will bring forward the service resumption to May 31, instead of mid-June, and will operate flights twice per week (Tuesdays and Sundays from Toronto), up from this year's one weekly flight. Operations will continue to be maintained with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Services will run until October 18. In June, Air Transat's Commercial Vice President, Gilles Ringwald, said the airline's operations to Croatia in 2017 would largely depend on this year's performance. "This is a seasonal service running between June and October because our estimates show there is low demand during the winter. If we achieve satisfactory results this summer, we could extend the season next year", Mr Ringwald said, adding that the leisure airline plans to carry some 5.000 passengers on its seventeen return flights to Zagreb in 2016. "We are always looking for new opportunities and could introduce additional frequencies on the route next year. It will all depend on this summer's results", he noted.
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ASL is not obliged to clone each and every service in exYU just because another carrier serves it. And you guys should really find a way to get rid of this crazy habit to force each and every piece of aviation news into the ASL perspective. It is simply insane.
Next year that number could be 175-200 000 Canadians, 400 000 US visitors, by 2020 550 000 US Visitors and up to 300 000 Canadians will visit Croatia, 100-120 000 of these Zagreb. Seriously direct link between Zagreb and Toronto, New York, Boston, Los Angeles are a must, if not in 2018, definitely by 2020.
We'll also see how sustainable year-round loads (and yields) ASL gets from 5pw JFK in the winter. We both know winter loads suck, so stick with what works. No one said ASL should fly to YYZ 5pw year-round. But even I can make a case for ASL going 3pw to YYZ in the summer season. Second A330 is needed, and on two extra days that plane can fly BEG-JFK to make it (combined) daily in the summer. During winter, send that second A330 to EY family where needed on a lease. I know it's not easy, but would that work?
I like the way you say everything is different, it is still pax wanting to get from Serbia to Cyprus after all.