United Airlines will today inaugurate flights between New York’s Newark Airport and Dubrovnik, connecting the two cities with a nonstop air service for the first time in just over three decades. It will be followed up by Delta, which will commence operations from JFK Airport to the Croatian coast tomorrow. United’s inaugural flight will depart this evening, New York time. The 214-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft is almost completely full, with just two seats left available in economy class as of this morning. Services will run three times per week, departing the Big Apple on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and arriving in Dubrovnik the following day. The seasonal operation is scheduled to be maintained until October 2.
The head of the Dubrovnik Tourism Board, Ana Hrnić, noted, “Throughout the pandemic, we have made great efforts to promote the city and to maintain the destination’s visibility with special emphasis on the US market. Our efforts have paid off. Seven weekly nonstop flights from the US are a huge success for Dubrovnik’s tourism. The American market is the second biggest in Dubrovnik, right after the UK. This year we expect excellent results from this extremely important market for us, and we hope to see continuous growth in the years ahead". The General Manager of Dubrovnik Airport, Frano Luetić, added, “This service will significantly contribute to the return of our American guests to Dubrovnik and Croatia as a whole in these difficult times”.
Delta Air Lines will inaugurate its service from JFK to Dubrovnik tomorrow, with flights to operate four times per week, departing New York each Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday with the 226-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. The seasonal route will be maintained until October 3. Overall, Delta will offer 24.406 seats between New York and Dubrovnik this summer, while United has 22.684 seats available. United will codeshare on Croatia Airlines’ flights between Dubrovnik and Zagreb, in order to offer better connectivity to and from the Croatian capital. Furthermore, its flights have been timed so as to connect onto 65 cities in North America. According to global data provider OAG, in 2019, over 20.000 passengers flew indirectly between Dubrovnik and New York.
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These flights are happening thanks to the big spike in demand from the US to Croatia this year, due to the fact that it took the other EU countries ages to reopen, while Croatia prudently remained open to Americans the whole time and was therefore a safer/more stable destination to plan summer vacations. In addition to that, US airlines have a lot of spare long-haul capacity this summer, owing to the ridiculous US ban on Schengen arrivals, which still keeps EU-US travel at less than 30% of 2019 numbers.
Literally the only thing DBV management did was grant the slots requested by the airlines. Hardly something to be praised to high heaven.
Cruise ships are back .
But these tourists are not allowed to go eating out or even go inside a shop .
They said if they get caught they will be denied to get back on their ship and instead have to fly home .
Doesnt sound like an exciting journey for me .
No eating, no drinking and no shopping .
Zagreb had transatlantic flights since 2012, not sure when you say first, what do you mean by that???
If just one person gets covid he will infect the whole ship and that would be the financial suicide for the cruise.
Understandable their fear.