Ryanair to launch nine new Zagreb routes in December


Low cost carrier Ryanair will introduce nine new routes from Zagreb this December, as it officially opens its new base in the Croatian capital today by stationing its first Airbus A320, operated by subsidiary Lauda Europe, in the city. The carrier will launch operations from Zagreb to Malaga, Dublin, Paphos, Basel, Eindhoven, Thessaloniki, Malta and Naples, complementing the previously announced Manchester. All flights will be maintained twice per week, with exception to Dublin which will run three times per week. The new additions will be introduced between December 1 and December 17. It brings Ryanair's destination count out of Zagreb to 25. In order to sustain its growing network, the carrier will add a third jet in the city from December. The budget carrier faces no direct competition on any of its new routes with exception to Dublin where it will go head to head against Croatia Airlines.


Speaking at a press conference in Zagreb today, Ryanair’s CEO, Eddie Wilson, said, “We have one aircraft based in Zagreb from July 23, second comes in September and the third in December. We have 41 weekly frequencies this summer and are connecting everything from London to Billund, from Oslo all the way down to Rome. So, in winter we are adding nine new routes, 25 routes in total and I hope we are going to grow that next summer. We re driving the recovery. I have to thank the airport in securing Ryanair for Zagreb and Croatia too. What I can promise you is that everyone flying through this airport in the next twelve months is going to be paying less for their air fares”.  

Destination Launch date
Malaga 01.12.2021
Manchester 02.12.2021
Dublin 02.12.2021
Thessaloniki 02.12.2021
Paphos 03.12.2021
Eindhoven 03.12.2021
Basel 03.12.2021
Malta 04.12.2021
Naples 17.12.2021
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As a result of Ryanair's latest expansion, the airline will become Zagreb Airport's largest carrier based on the number of routes offered. Croatia Airlines had previously said it will adapt to the competition. “Croatia Airlines will adapt its business to the new circumstances on the market as much as possible. It should be noted that some of the newly announced routes [by Ryanair] are to secondary airports at destinations served by the national airline which regularly flies to primary airports, i.e. major European hubs (Brussels, Frankfurt, Rome, London, Paris), throughout the year, thus continuously providing Croatia with connectivity with the rest of the world”, the company noted.

Comments

  1. Anonymous09:49

    wow :o

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  2. Anonymous09:53

    Bye bye OU.

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    1. Anonymous10:12

      And LJU.

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    2. Anonymous15:54

      finally no need to change aircraft on the way to MLA, PHO and SKG in BEG :)

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  3. Anonymous09:59

    Zagreb finally getting some much needed routes ignored by Croatia Airlines for years. Well done.

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    1. Anonymous00:42

      Agree. I can't believe Croatia Airlines never considered Thessaloniki or Cyprus.

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  4. Anonymous10:00

    Bravo Hrvatska!! This reminds me of their immense, aggressive expansion in SOF back in 2017.
    W6 is surprisingly acting very passively in ZAG. At least they could've tried with LTN. Anyway, this is really awesome news and very happy for ZAG! It will finally be accessible from more parts of Europe and will force and encourage OU to become more active. Prices will go down and Croats can finish begin to travel more.

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    1. Anonymous10:17

      They probably know the market is not big enough for two carriers. They are also focused on other markets like Italy.

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    2. Anonymous08:37

      Wizz are hardly able to operate their existing flights for lack of crew. They cancel lots of flights and using five wet-leased aircraft continuously (despite half of their fleet like 60 aircraft is still grounded) as they are short of crew.

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  5. Anonymous10:02

    Amazing!

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  6. Anonymous10:02

    FR becoming Zagreb's number one airline.

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    1. Anonymous00:43

      It's gonna be number one by the end of the year.

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  7. Anonymous10:05

    wow some are a bit odd. Malaga?

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    1. Anonymous10:12

      Yes, it's a year-round destination and is a very beautiful city, not only about the beach. The Andalusian culture, cheap and excellent food. It's also close to Granada and Nerja. Insanely beautiful Spanish cities. Winters are sometimes 20C.

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    2. Anonymous11:18

      I might use that line, transfering to Zagreb Airport from Belgrade by car.

      Nice selection.

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    3. Malaga is one of the most popular Spanish holiday destinations

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    4. Anonymous12:16

      True dat. The city has metro and amazing tapas culture. Highly recommend the town of Ronda!
      Spaniards are also fond of the Balkans.

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    5. Anonymous18:30

      Fond of the Balkans?
      More fond of Croatia which doesnt think of itself as Balkans.
      Iberia doesnt even fly to Belgrade which is an oddity.

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    6. Anonymous00:44

      I wrote the first comment. I know Malaga is nice but I didn't know it was a year round destination. Also this will be a route that will rely on outbound passengers from Zagreb not the other way around. Considering they said themselves the majority of interest for their flights is being generated outside of Croatia, I'm interested to see how this route will perform. But definitely a nice and unexpected addition.

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  8. Anonymous10:05

    So I assume a third plane is coming in December.

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  9. Anonymous10:06

    Finally flights to Cyprus!

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    1. Anonymous10:15

      And Thessaloniki too.

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    2. Anonymous10:31

      And Malta finally!

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    3. Anonymous15:55

      JU will lose quite a bit of transfers as this was the only reasonable transfer point to those destinations.

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    4. Anonymous17:51

      JU carried 5-10 passengers from ZAG to Cyprus. FR will need much more than that to sustain this three hour flight.

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  10. Anonymous10:08

    it will be like Bergamo flights. for sure some routes will be ok, but majority will be canceled. Just remember Pragusa and LAX - DBV flights. its easy to announce, its easy to fly inauguration flights and few later on, but to maintain - impossible during winter and in covid, post covid times.

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    1. Anonymous10:10

      Sour grapes.

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    2. Anonymous10:11

      You are comparing Pragusa One to Ryanair LOL. And what about Bergamo. It is operating normally. You really can't hide that jelousy.

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    3. Anonymous10:16

      Bergamo je otkazan do kraja 8 mjeseca.

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    4. Anonymous10:18

      So any skepticism is jealousy? Erm ok

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    5. Anonymous10:18

      ^ Again stop writing nonsense. Is it to difficult to go on their website and see that flights to Bergamo are operating normally and on sale. You have a flight tomorrow to begin with. Some people...

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    6. Anonymous10:19

      Poor guy, still wants to believe the Bergamo flights are cancelled :)

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    7. Anonymous10:19

      Yes it is jealousy considering you are writing misinformation about Bergamo being cancelled, which is not true.

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    8. Anonymous10:21

      Bergamo flights are in the system throughout August, I just found a return flight for 10€ (Aug 3 - Aug 10).

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    9. Anonymous17:52

      €10?! That's cheaper than airport taxes. How is that even possible?

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    10. Anonymous00:45

      Because they probably don't have to pay any taxes for a year at least. Or it's a calculated loss to get as many people to book.

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  11. Anonymous10:11

    Bravo Hrvatska!

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  12. Anonymous10:21

    Ex yu,

    Are all these flights year-round?

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    1. Anonymous10:25

      Considering they all start in December, I highly doubt they are winter seasonal routes.

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    2. Anonymous10:33

      Will these destinations be on sales in November 2022 is the right question. At this moment the tickets can't be purchased even for April 2022.

      I just ask as some so called experts claimed SOF was seasonal from whole beginning and it was not pusblished anywhere at the time SOF was introduced as destination from ZAG.

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    3. Anonymous10:36

      They just loaded the flights half an hour ago in the system. I mean you were claiming just above that Bergamo was cancelled.

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    4. Anonymous10:37

      You are wrong. I did not mention Bergamo at all.

      Just asking for SOF as it was obviously not clear from the beginning.

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    5. Anonymous10:42

      @Anon 10:33: Ryanair normally only publishes summer schedule for the next year around September/October, which is when the tickets go on sale.

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    6. Anonymous10:47

      Thank you.

      I thought the same and then I went to see if you can buy a ticket from for example Frankfurt to Malaga in October 2022.

      And..you can.

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    7. Anonymous12:23

      SOF is not seasonal anymore. They've just loaded the winter flights today it seems.

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    8. Anonymous17:53

      Probably got more money from the airport to keep Sofia in winter.

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    9. Anonymous18:05

      Yes, they will give money just like that to the 2019 most underserved regional route in 2019 in ZAG. Do some online research.

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  13. Anonymous10:24

    Omg can they announce Berlin already

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    1. Anonymous15:56

      Eurowings did already :D

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    2. Anonymous00:46

      ^ Seems you missed it :) starts next March
      https://www.exyuaviation.com/p/eurowings-berlin-zagreb.html

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  14. Anonymous10:28

    Why not OHD?

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    1. Anonymous10:36

      Why OHD?

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    2. Anonymous12:19

      Do Croats usually visit OHD?

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    3. Anonymous21:38

      Lots of Macedonian students in Slovenia would use OHD- ZAG because of the low fares that Ryanair offer, and as well many Macedonians seasonally work in Croatia. Usually this people go by bus because they can't afford OU on SKP-ZAG. Macedonian tourists could also use OHD-ZAG, year round.

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  15. Anonymous10:31

    A new era for Zagreb

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  16. Anonymous10:38

    What a shame for such a prestigious airport!

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  17. Anonymous10:46

    Bravo, Hrvatska!

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  18. Anonymous10:51

    Let's see Croatia Airlines' reaction to Ryanair's Dublin route

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    1. Anonymous10:58

      Don't expect much from OU. They will probably just discontinue it, like most routes they faced competition on.

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    2. They added 1x week over summer Split-Prague, what do you want more?

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  19. Anonymous10:51

    This is huge. Well done to Zagreb.

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  20. Anonymous10:58

    Just in time for Christmas :) Great news.

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  21. Anonymous11:04

    Their pace of growth from ZAG has been amazing. They are just today basing a plane and they already have 25 routes announced by December.

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  22. Anonymous11:08

    Awesome, I am sure Eindhoven is going to prove very popular!

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    1. Anonymous17:54

      That's gonna hurt KL and OU.

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    2. Anonymous00:47

      Ends my hope of seeing Transavia start flights to ZAG.

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  23. Anonymous11:22

    It is nice that Ryanair expands in ZAG, not so nice it does it through it subsidiary Lauda, which at least in VIE has a horrible image regarding labor rights.
    Last thing recently was board crew needs to justify itself why it hasn't sold all the food after flights. The stressed crew buys the rest of the food to avoid confrontation with the managers.
    This was published in serious local press in Austria.

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    1. Anonymous12:19

      That's correct, they have to sell a certain amount of food or drink per flight or their job is on the line!

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    2. Anonymous13:33

      Things which happend in Lauda are not different than any other Ryanair company. The only difference is that in Austria those things come to newspapers, becouse unions actually have some power. While Ryanair buzz is no better, jus nobody talks about it, becouse in Poland or Hungary that is normal.

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    3. Anonymous13:41

      This has been the case in Ryanair for ages. Every one knows, that FR is not an employee friendly company.

      Besides, the plan is to get rid of Lauda in the next couple of years (my guess is in two years max).

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    4. Anonymous13:58

      The plan is to get ric of A320 not the company. Company is serving exactly for the purpose. Higher competition in the RYR group itself, lower the costs(especialy salaries), easier hidding of actual cashflow....
      Company is not Austrian company anymore, but maltese, so no more Austrian laws 😀

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    5. Anonymous15:20

      We'll see, they have Buzz to lower the costs with even shit*ier contracts and B737.

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    6. Anonymous17:55

      VIE crew gets like €750 per month which is nothing.

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  24. Anonymous11:38

    How long does Ryanair need to operate new destinations in order to receive subventions from Zagreb airport?

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    1. Anonymous00:47

      What do you mean?

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  25. JATBEGMEL12:22

    While the main focus should be how OU will react and compete with FR, especially now that they have announced their first route directly competing with OU, it'll be interesting to see if JU will react in any way, as indirectly these flights will compete with them on a few markets as well.

    First was TGD, then SOF, now SKG and PFO. JU was a major transfer carrier between ZAG and Greece, if not the largest.

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    1. Anonymous12:26

      I believe JU flies at least daily to ZAG and Greece so the choice of flights would be surely still on JU side.

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    2. Anonymous12:32

      And also how will LJU react will all these new routes from ZAG.

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    3. Anonymous13:08

      Too late for LJU

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    4. Anonymous13:45

      You snooze you lose!

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    5. JATBEGMEL14:55

      @ 12,26

      ZAG is currently 5 pw with 3 morning and 2 evening rotations.

      Prior to covid, definately the choice of flights was a huge advantage along with competitive connection times.

      With added competition that massively cuts on price, I am sure they will feel some pressure to remain competitive in order to keep as much of their market share.

      Air fares are fairly high in our region. Perhaps the added competition would be great in reducing fares and stimulating more air travel.

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  26. Anonymous13:08

    Finally! Great news for Zagreb.

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  27. Anonymous13:09

    Great, this will generate a new type of passengers and will definitely mean a lot of passenger growth for ZAG.

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  28. Anonymous13:09

    Very bad news for Croatia Airlines.

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  29. Anonymous13:13

    Sofia is a yeararound destination

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    1. Anonymous13:36

      It isn't. It's been downgraded to seasonal.

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    2. Anonymous13:40

      ^ Dear anon, you might want to check Ryanair's website again where you can see you can buy tickets for November, December, January and so on. Route was never downgraded. It was just some hopeful person in the comments praying its downgraded just because they hadn't loaded flights winter yet.

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    3. Anonymous13:44

      Let him believe what he wants. Some teenies will never change its mind. He loves to speak downgrade, just seasonal, uncomfortable airplane….. all what’s flying to Zagreb resp. Zagreb

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    4. Anonymous15:10

      @13:36 - Check the Ryanair website or app, they even have a better schedule every Saturday and Wednesday. If BUD and even smaller BTS LCC connected year-round with SOF, then why not with ZAG?

      "During the pre-pandemic 2019, Sofia was Zagreb Airport’s busiest unserved regional route."

      https://www.exyuaviation.com/2021/06/ryanair-to-launch-sofia-zagreb-service.html?m=1

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  30. Anonymous13:44

    Bravo. it is odd that there is no new routes to Germany or Scandinavia, but great. We need Ryanair in Belgrade

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  31. Anonymous13:54

    Don't get some portals wrongly reporting that there are 24 Ryan routes from Zagreb now when there are clearly 25. They just have to count.

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    1. Anonymous14:41

      It seems most omitted Manchester which was quietly announced the other day.

      Nice to see ex-Yu has them all there and also the flight information which I appreciate.

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  32. Anonymous16:03

    Ryanair’s CEO, Eddie Wilson, said, “What I can promise you is that everyone flying through this airport in the next twelve months is going to be paying less for their air fares”

    Even those flying from Zagreb to Australia via Doha? Even those flying to Toronto with Air Canada?

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  33. Anonymous17:51

    Ryanair is playing BS. Flying to Paphos in December? Paphos is closed in Winter. It is not working city in Cyprus but just a tourist resort from May-October. There is nothing even comparable to any town in Adriatic coast. It's flying to Mali Losinj in December.
    Malta also???
    I am sorry but these LCC are cancer for any country. Croatia needs full legacy airline that flies to business cities in Europe, East & West and Middle East.

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    1. Dear @An.17. 51
      Croatia has had full legacy airline for 30 years. During those 30 years, that airline, called Croatia Airlines, icao code ctn, iata code OU, heavily subsidised by croatian taxpayers, failed to fly to business cities in Europe, Eas&West and Middle East, it failed doing charters, it failed carrying cargo, it failed properly connecting all croatian regions, it failed going long haul, it failed in anything that existed in world of aviation. That's why I can just say :Welcome Ryanair! And if LCC which offer wide range of flights to general public for very acceptable and affordable prices, without direct subsidies from the state, then I wonder how would you call the disease OU suffers from, offering extremely high prices on extremely small number of services in order to feed its Master LH, on expense of taxpayers.

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  34. Anonymous22:44

    Reminding destinations for LCC's to ZAG:
    A. Scandinavia and Finland: 1.TKU, 2.NYO, 3.VXO, 4."CPH",
    B. Central Europe: 5."HAM", 6.HAJ, 7.BRE, 8."BER", 9."CGN", 10.NUE, 11.FDH, 12.SZG, 13."VIE"
    C. Mediterranean and UAE: 14."LIS", 15."BCN", 16."ATH", 15."MAD", 16.SAW, 17. AUH,
    18."SPU", 19."DBV"
    D. UK: 20. LTN
    E. USA: 21. JFK
    There is a lot of space for W6 in ZAG.
    With only FR and possibly OU out, ZAG for FR is what SKP is for W6.

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  35. Anonymous22:59

    Slovenian Government can save LJU by investing in AirBaltic. They have ordered a lot of A220's. W6 and FR are not very interested in LJU so AirBaltic might fill the gap. Station a couple of A220's and basically copy W6 model in SKP and FR model in ZAG.

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    1. Anonymous23:12

      FR is a missed oppurtunity for LJU. They should have done similar thing ZAG did. The CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, previously said, “If Ljubljana Airport were to lower its taxes Ryanair would surely return to Slovenia”.

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    2. Anonymous00:56

      It's not all lost, W6 can still open a base in LJU.

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  36. Anonymous00:41

    Hope they will consider Athens too down the line.

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  37. Anonymous00:42

    AMAZING! Well done Zagreb

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  38. Anonymous00:42

    Will OU respond?

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    1. Anonymous00:53

      No, they'll wait for FR to cancel all routes cause of lack of demand.

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    2. And they will also cry to government to protect them and to pump in some more money so they can pay double leases to Misetic company, finance invented and in other companies non existent positions created for Party uhljebs and Mistresses, to be sponsors of football clubs owned or managed by convicted criminals, and so on and so on

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