Croatia Airlines resuming more destinations

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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 resuming more destinations

NEWS FLASH

Croatia Airlines has published its provisional schedule until June 14, which will see the carrier resume operations from Zagreb to Zurich and the domestic Zagreb - Pula - Zadar service from June 8. Flights to Switzerland will run four times per week, while the domestic operations to Pula and Zadar will operate on a daily basis. Speaking today at the Aviation Arena webinar on the recovery of air transport, Slaven Žabo, the head of Croatia Airlines’ Commercial Division, said, “We are gradually adding more flights into the global distribution systems and we are seeing a positive market response. Currently, we are optimising. We are using our lower capacity Dash aircraft even on routes where we usually deploy the Airbus, but we are also adding Airbus aircraft where it is needed on a daily basis. We have that flexibility but even so, at the moment, demand is so low that we are managing to achieve less than 50% load factor”.

Route	Resumption date
Zagreb - Amsterdam	May 25
Split - Frankfurt	May 29 (one off)
Zagreb - Copenhagen	June 1
Zagreb - Zurich	June 8
Zagreb - Pula - Zadar	June 8

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Bravo Hrvatska!
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