Dubrovnik Airport was the former Yugoslavia's fastest growing during the first half of the year, adding the most new passengers during the sixth-month period - an extra 157.184. Its strong performance continued into July and August as it handled its two-millionth passenger of the year yesterday, nineteen days ahead of 2018. The traveller arrived on a Croatia Airlines flight from Zurich. "The reconstruction and development of the airport contributed to the increase in traffic. During the first eight and a half months of this year, passenger numbers have increased 14%. On August 3 we set our 24-hour record, during which we handled over 24.000 travellers", Dubrovnik Airport's General Manager, Frano Luetić, said.
Dubrovnik Airport handled the most passengers from the United Kingdom, followed by France, Germany, Spain and Croatia itself. "Considering the results and trends, we expect to continue to see a rise in passengers for the remainder of the year, especially towards the end of the holiday season", Dubrovnik Airport said. It also anticipates a strong winter season. "This winter we expect to see British Airways, Aegean Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Trade Air, Turkish Airlines, Vueling and Croatia Airlines maintain flights to Dubrovnik". British Airways will boost its operations to the city this winter with four weekly flights from Gatwick, while Greece's Aegean Airlines recently announced it will maintain services from Athens to Dubrovnik for most of the winter season, with flights to be maintained twice per week up until January 4. Services will then resume at the start of the 2020 summer season in late March of next year.
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| New fuel farm at Dubrovnik Airport |
So far in 2019, Dubrovnik has seen the launch of seasonal flights from the United States and the arrival of the world's biggest airline, American, as well as the arrival of Europe's biggest carrier, Ryanair. Furthermore, it completed the third and final phase of its runway overhaul. The airport will continue its modernisation and expansion project this winter with the construction of two new rapid exit taxiways, the expansion of the apron, as well as the construction of new commercial and general aviation aprons, a small general aviation terminal, the development of aircraft, maintenance and operation facilities, as well as a multi-storey car park with the capacity to handle 700 vehicles. Earlier this week, the airport opened a new fuel farm, which combines Simens Simatic automation technology together with custody transfer metering unloading and loading skids, as well as truck loading software designed for JET-A1 fuel applications.
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Interesting how everyone was predicting a record breaking year for SPU yet it was DBV that ended up shining among HR airports.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDOWR9IA_Rg/XDHmidlKJrI/AAAAAAAApKQ/aF3ZThi8A5oFbBSGL3ynsOgFAxt-WoRqACLcBGAs/s1600/2020.png
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2019/07/smaller-ex-yu-airports-register-mixed-h1.html
The next target is to attract LCC long-haul airlines such as LEVEL, Norwegian, Air Asia, Scoot, etc.
Asians are crazy about Europe and now is the time for Croatia to expose its beauty to the world. It can also be promoted as an initial gateway to the Balkans.
Don't understand why people see both terms as offensive as they are real facts.
Czech Rep and Hungary are in Eastern Europe but still developed.
Croatia is a Western Balkan Nation but also considered developed.
I think this is the best time for Croatia to take advantage and take at least 2 planes and base them in ZAD and DBV!!
'Please do not use "Western Balkans" It's something that doesn't exist in reality.'
Yeah, western Balkans really do not exist. lol
Balkan is not even peninsula, your geographical knowledge is a bit rusty, isn't it?
If you call other people's comments "utterly stupid" you should be at least capable to distinguish political and geographical denominations. I will refrain from commenting "Iberia or whatever", but will totally agree with you that both Balkans and Scandinavia are geographical terms. But no one ever dared of dividing Scandinavia to Northern and Southern, or Eastern and Western, based on politics. Or calling one part of Scandinavia some names because of the politics. But they did it with Balkans. "Western Balkans" is NOT GEOGRAPHY, it's politics, and not only politics but BAD POLITICS, the term which was INVENTED for political purposes some 20 years ago, unlike Balkans and Scaandinavia which exist for thousands of years. That's why I described it as non existant. And if you don't know it, it's absolutely ok, if you cannot understand it, I can accept it as well, but please don't call my comments "utterly stupid" for something I did not say and you misunderstood. Ciao!
*Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain.
Furthermore the guy you viciously attacked probably refered to its as a geo area. It's not a big deal even if he wasn't since there are terms like northern Europe, eastern Europe, Benelux...