Low cost carrier easyJet has announced its expansion plans for the Croatian market in 2018. It involves the introduction of seven new seasonal summer routes and a considerable increase in capacity for next year with over one million seats on sale to and from Croatia. A number of new services will be added from the United Kingdom, in line with the airline's recent announcement. Pula forms the main focus of easyJet's expansion in Croatia in 2018 with new flights from London Southend, Liverpool, Basel and Milan. Services from London Southend and Venice will be added to Dubrovnik, while the budget carrier will also commence operations from Berlin to Zadar, complementing its existing services from London Luton and Milan.
easyJet will see some competition on its new routes. It will face off directly against Croatia Airlines and Volotea on flights between Venice and Dubrovnik, as well as Eurowings and Ryanair on services from Berlin to Zadar. In Pula, the airline faces no direct competition on its new routes but will offer flights from a fourth airport in London, with Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted already served from Pula by British Airways, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways and easyJet itself. The low cost airline will operate a record 3.100 flights to Croatia during the peak travel months of July and August next year and offer some 540.000 seats for sale during this period.
Commenting on the airline's new flights to Croatia, easyJet’s UK Commercial Manager, Ali Gayward, said, "With more than 46 services operating in Croatia, easyJet is committed to providing Croatian clients with affordable trips, offering them a broad network of connections with major European cities". She added, "Pula is very trendy both with young people who want to go to the various festivals of Croatia, but also with more mature people as well, and we expect all our new routes to be especially popular with passengers". Sophie Dekkers, easyJet's UK Country Director noted, "This announcement of our expansion highlights our commitment to providing affordable routes to summer holiday destinations. We’re sure that they will prove extremely popular for those looking for a summer break or visiting friends and family".
| Route | Launch date |
|---|---|
| Milan - Pula | 25.06.2018 |
| Basel - Pula | 26.06.2018 |
| Venice - Dubrovnik | 26.06.2018 |
| Berlin - Zadar | 27.06.2018 |
| London Southend - Pula | 24.07.2018 |
| London Southend - Dubrovnik | 28.07.2018 |
| Liverpool - Pula | 29.07.2018 |
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Because the demand is really limited during the winter months. Simple as that.
Usually in beginning easyJet starts with flights to their bases. By that standard Dublin would not be their first option, but Rome for sure would.
They could open Edinburgh, Geneva, Manchester, Newcastle, Nice, Toulouse.
Later they can compete with other carriers on Amsterdam (KLM, Croatia), Barcelona (Vueling, Croatia), Berlin (Eurowings), London (British, Croatia), Milan (Croatia)
This comparison makes no sense. Thailand and the Caribbean are winter destinations for Europeans, Croatia is a summer one.
Especially with new Eurowings routes they plan to open in 2018. (Dusseldorf which starts in winter, new routes to Osijek, Rijeka, Zagreb and Brač + winter flights to Zadar), on 6 routes they increase frequencies, and with fact that Eurowings will have 10 all-year routes from Pula, Rijeka, Split, Zadar and Zagreb, and easyJet just seasonal routes, most of them even don't fly all summer season but from June to September.
New routes: easyjet - Berlin, Brussels Airlines - Brussels, Aegean - Athens, Condor - Frankfurt, Germania - Zurich, Ryanair - Frankfurt, TUI - Amsterdam.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20171213/easyjet-to-open-15-new-routes-in-france
http://www.exyuaviation.com/2017/08/dubrovnik-sees-us-korea-flight-potential.html
Entire Kvarner and Istra is very rich part of the country, Varazdin/Zagorje too.
You trolling ???
Dubrovnik airport projected traffic:
2018 - 2.75 million
2019 - 3.15 million
2020 - 3.5 million
Zagreb
2018 - 3.5 million
2019 - 4.0 million
2020 - 4.5 million
Also you blame EK, you should be blaming Lufthansa Group which is responsible for nearly million pax @Zagreb if not million.
Clearly you're trolling.
Tourism is a driving force, 16.4 million foreign visitors to Croatia this year. 102 million nights, €11.4 billion revenue.
2018 is expected to do just as good, 18.5-20 million foreign visitors expected, 120 million nights, €12.7bn revenue, the number of new carriers or increased frequency or new destinations is just the consequence....
LH group is also expensive. Reaching ZAG from many European cities is EXPENSIVE. Expensive means less passengers.
Split has very high fees so airlines think twice when it comes to opening new routes which are always a risk.
But restricted capacity in summer surely also plays a role.
Da Špišić Bukovica postoji!
Zagreb, Pula and Frankfurt
From Pula:
Zadar, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Zürich, Osijek* and Split*
From Rijeka:
London, Munich, Osijek*, Split*, Dubrovnik*
From Osijek:
Dubrovnik, Split, Rijeka*, Pula*, Zagreb*
From Brač:
Zagreb, Graz
From Dubrovnik:
Frankfurt, Rome–Fiumicino, Zagreb, Amsterdam, Athens, Düsseldorf, Nice, Osijek, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rijeka*, Split, Venice, Vienna, Zürich
* Trade Air on code-share
You can not say that there are no flights out of Zagreb and Split. 38 routes. Much more than from Zagreb or Split. Much more than Adria out of Ljubljana, Montenegro out of Podgorica, and for sure Air Serbia which has not a single flight out of Belgrade.
I know people who fly into ZAD now and then take a rental car to anywhere South of Split / Makarska. That is still significantly cheaper than flying to SPU.
Nitko se radom nije obogatio, pa ni u turizmu.
Ali, moze ugodno zivjeti.