Croatia Airlines urged to launch Podgorica service

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Europe July traffic above expectations

Air traffic in European airspace exceeded air safety organisation Eurocontrol's "optimistic" predictions in July, as demand takes off this summer. Eurocontrol data show that flights reached 65% of 2019 levels last month, compared with May flight traffic trailing pre-Covid levels by 61%. The July numbers are slightly up on Eurocontrol's predictions made in early summer, when it proposed three scenarios. The most optimistic option planned for widespread vaccination take-up, easing travel restrictions and resumption of long haul flights. Eurocontrol predicted that flight numbers would reach 64% of pre-pandemic July levels should these conditions be met. Its baseline forecast was 52%, and its worst-case scenario saw July flight traffic reach just 46% of July 2019 levels. In order to exceed the organisation's optimistic scenario for August, flights would need to be at 69pc of 2019 levels. This looks likely to be met, if not surpassed, as flight traffic reached 68.3pc of pre-Covid levels in the last week of July, at 23.899 per day. Low cost carrier Ryanair was the busiest of the main European air carriers, with an average of 2.175 flights per day in July. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week bemoaned the slow start to air travel recovery in June, and its Director General Willie Walsh expressed concerns that the chance of a significant revival in international air traffic this summer is growing "fainter" by the day.
Source: Argus News

Croatia Airlines urged to launch Podgorica service

NEWS FLASH

Croatia Airlines has been advised to resume operations between Zagreb and Podgorica following talks between the Croatian Ambassador to Montenegro, Veselko Grubišić, and the Mayor of Podgorica, Ivan Vuković. Last year, Croatia Airlines' CEO Jasminko Bajić and the head of operator Airports of Montenegro, Danilo Orlandić, met to discuss the matter. "A nonstop service between Zagreb and Podgorica would go towards strengthening cooperation between our two countries and the public. I intend to bring this up in talks with Croatia Airlines' management", Ambassador Grubišić said. The Croatian carrier discontinued flights between the two capitals in February 2012. At the time, the service was maintained three times per week with the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop aircraft.

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Anonymous10:43
Ako ima P2P putnika mogu da pokrenu liniju. Na transver putnike pored AS sa 6 dnevnih letova mogu da zaorave.
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Anonymous10:49
Yes, OU absolutely needs another route like OMO which would fly empty. OU has absolutely nothing to offer and local demand is not there to secure flights. With JP adding more flights things are becoming even less certain for OU in Montenegro.
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Anonymous10:58
Political route ;-)
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Anonymous11:11
If OU times the flights correctly it could feed its network to northern and western Europe from ZAG with Montenegro traffic.
That would be good both for OU and especially for Montenegro passengers who would have an extra option for travel and better access to Star Alliance network.
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Anonymous11:20
Montenegro air traffic is growing like crazy.
OU is a welcome addition.
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