Ryanair will expand its operations in Croatia this coming summer season by introducing a total of five new routes in an attempt to catch up to its low cost rivals on the market. The budget airline, which last year held a 5% capacity share in Croatia and was well behind easyJet and Eurowings, will strengthen its seasonal base in Zadar by launching flights to Frankfurt, Memmingen and Bremen, while also adding services from Frankfurt to Pula and Rijeka. In addition, it will boost frequencies on its existing services to the country. As a result of its new Frankfurt flights, the carrier plans to discontinue operations between Hahn and Zadar. "Our Zadar summer 2018 schedule, offers fourteen routes in total, including three new routes to Bremen, Frankfurt and Memmingen and we look forward to further growing our Croatian routes, traffic and tourism in the coming years", Ryanair said.
Overall, during the peak summer months, Ryanair will offer over 12.000 seats per week from Croatia. However, despite adding new routes to the market, the airline still has no flights to the country's two biggest tourist hotspots - Dubrovnik and Split. Speaking to EX-YU Aviation News recently, Dubrovnik Airport's General Manager, Frano Luetić, said, "We have been in talks with Ryanair for over a decade, however, our stance remains unchanged. Ryanair is more than welcome in Dubrovnik but under the same conditions as the other sixty airlines operating here. We are strong and united in this regard, hence, we would not want to destroy the excellent relations we have with other carriers in order to post big numbers". Ryanair has requested for Dubrovnik Airport to reduce its fees and sign a multi-year agreement prior to it starting operations.
Similarly, Split Airport has said it cannot reduce its fees to accommodate Ryanair. General Manager, Lukša Novak, noted, "In Croatia, they [Ryanair] still operate exclusively from airports which provide support for their flights. We have held meetings with them and established contacts, however, for now, they will not come to Split as we have not changed our policy. Neither Split, nor Dubrovnik, need to stimulate carriers during the season as traffic continues to grow. That would only create a mess on the market. We are always open for talks, but we do not intend on changing our business policy". Ryanair operates flights to Croatia exclusively during the summer and currently plans to maintain twenty routes from the country this year.
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Ryanair.......uzmi ili ostavi.
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This is not ex-yu, but our close neighbourhood that lot of people from North Serbia used. Whet do you think, does Niš have better chances to get base now? May this help Osijek or Banjaluka or maybe TUzla get Ryan?
ps you have that news on the left hand side too.
From ZAD to HHN, CPH, GLA and BRS
FRom RJK to STN and CRL
ZAG will never provide them support.
Zakon ponude/potraznje.
Ako ima netko tko bi subvencionirao Ryanove letove za ZAG/SPU/DBV, samo naprijed.
Ali, ne smatram potrebitim ugadjati Ryanu samo zato da bi letjeli.
Kao sto vidimo, ima podosta drugih koji ce letjeti pod tim i tim uvijetima.
Jedino da Grad Zagreb odluči subvencionirati te letove, ali ja kao porezni obveznik ne bih bio sretan tom odlukom.
I know lots of people who would use this line to Eindhoven and from Eindhoven to ZAD
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has warned of a "real and distinct" threat that flights from the UK to the European Union could be grounded from April 2019, meaning there will be "no holidays" that summer.
O'Leary, who has this morning handed transport secretary Chris Grayling a briefing note outlining his fears, said the aviation industry had a hard deadline of September 2018 for the agreement to be reached.
"Otherwise we will have to start cancelling flights, or taking them off sale," he said this morning.
That would leave Brits forced to get ferries for holidays to Ireland or continental Europe, O'Leary explained, saying they would be "full of Irish and British refugees".
"September 2018 is when we will start seeing the shit hitting the fan," O'Leary added.
He insisted Ryanair would be able to navigate a possible summer of chaos by deploying its 70 UK-based aircraft in intra-European flights, but said EasyJet and British Airways would have no such fallback.
Which other airline can do this?
In my opinion ZAG should approach Wizz Air.
It would be a good idea in my opinion to make it a LCC terminal and offer some competitive fees for LCC airlines.
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Hardly see any LCCs going bankrupt any time soon, especially Ryanair.