Ryanair cancels and reduces over a dozen Zagreb routes


Ryanair will be reducing planned frequencies and temporarily suspending a number of destinations out of its Zagreb base in May and June. A total of seventeen routes have been affected. Notably, the budget carrier has cancelled all flights from Zagreb to Basel and Brindisi in May and June, with the latter having only been launched two weeks ago. Furthermore, the airline will temporarily suspend operations from the Croatian capital to Sofia in June, while services to Corfu, which were to be inaugurated in June, have been pushed back until July and reduced to just one flight per week.

Thirteen other routes will sustain frequency cuts including Charleroi, Baden Baden, Bergamo, Dublin, Gothenburg, Hahn, London, Memmingen, Malta, Malmo, Paphos, Rome and Weeze. Notably, its operations to Stansted Airport, which boast the largest number of flights from its Zagreb base, have been reduced from daily to four weekly. The majority of the other routes have suffered a one to two weekly frequency reduction. This is the second time in recent months that Ryanair has either temporarily suspended or reduced its number of flights out of Zagreb. In January and February, sixteen of Ryanair’s routes from the Croatian capital were temporarily suspended.

The latest wave of cancellations has impacted 63% of Ryanair’s Zagreb network. The airline has provided no explanation for its decision. As previously reported, the carrier has also delayed the launch of 24 of its routes from Zadar. The majority of the flights that were to be introduced at the end of March have been shifted to early June, while a handful of other routes have been delayed until the start of May. The affected destinations include Aarhus, Bucharest, Bordeaux, Bari, Bologna, Bergamo, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Gothenburg, Gdansk, Hamburg, Liverpool, Maastricht, Manchester, Naples, Nuremberg, Prague, Pisa, Sofia, Turin, Warsaw and Wroclaw.



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  1. Anonymous09:02

    What the hell iz going on??

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    1. Anonymous09:06

      A lot of people actually warned us about this - but I didn't see it coming. Especially without a public statement :/

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    2. Anonymous10:06

      I was trying to tell this to all of you for longer period. Ryanair is not an airline you can rely on. Belive me or not but croatia airlines is way more reliable as you think.

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    3. Anonymous10:09

      Oil getting expensive, not feasible to sell 20 eur. tickets

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    4. Anonymous12:15

      I wasn't possible even before so that a bull sh**

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    5. Anonymous13:27

      Covid restrictons....

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    6. Anonymous13:34

      No more covid restrictions

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    7. Anonymous17:51

      Great news. I would never fly from the airport with dictator name on it.

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  2. Anonymous09:02

    They promised 7 aircraft at some point but now only 2 will be operational right? A bit of disappointment

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    1. Anonymous15:26

      I guess their patience with Zagreb is over.

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  3. Anonymous09:03

    Get into bed with FR and expect uncertainty.

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  4. Problems with the crew. Lauda specific problem.

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    1. Anonymous09:06

      That's absolutely not the case as Vienna base is not effected, and with more and more 737maxs coming in they would just delay the retirement of old 737s and station them there - if there was money to get. Which obviously is not the case

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    2. The local employees in Croatia is what is lacking. Inside confirmed info. Vienna and Austria in general has a larger poll of people to choose from.

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    3. Anonymous14:07

      @Petar:

      What kind of Lauda specific problems? Colleagues of mine (pilots based in ZAG) didn't see it coming nor were they aware of any problems.
      Either FR is blackmailing ZAG airport to lower its fees or route yields are not good enough. FR's modus operandi.

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    4. Anonymous16:04

      Ann 14:07; any chance you ask your pilot friends how they feel about the future of Zagreb? I think that FR is slowly giving up as they don't get as much money as they want. Similar case was in Maribor where flights were full but Maribor did not want to pay more money for the flights...

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  5. Anonymous09:05

    Now is the time OU attacks against the miserable Ryanair

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    1. Anonymous09:53

      Do you honestly think they will do anything? The fact is that Ryan Air can do as it pleases because it has no competition. They chased OU out of a number of routes from ZAG and now they decrease frequencies on the same ones (example Dublin).

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  6. Anonymous09:06

    Explanation is that with the end of War in Europe not being in near sight people are feeling more insecure and not willing to wake up one morning in Zagreb and say "Hey let's go to Sofia or Brindisi!". Covid is going to retirement but with war raging on European soil, no matter how distant it seems, there would be no full recovery and growth on EU airline markets.

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    1. Anonymous11:26

      Lol sure. Everybody else is expanding

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    2. Anonymous11:29

      LJU isn't.

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  7. Anonymous09:24

    “Kudos to Ryan, it’s the best thing that happened to ZAG like ever” - said almost everyone here. See now? This company has no market evaluation, sorry they have, they release the tickets on sale and see how the thing’s going. Oh and one more thing, they launched new route, which made them subject to new route subventions, now they cancelled bunch of routes but still they will operate few flights just to take this subvention. But hey, gotta love Ryan <3. Wake up people, that’s modus operandi of this socalled “airline”. Yeah you oay 7€ for a flight, but be prepared to end up flying nowhere. ZAG will get rid of those blood (money) sucking ticks in form of Lauda as soon as possible (read “as soon as we rebuild prepandemic network”). Sure they won’t build their passenger profile on cheap Ryan passengers who use zero to none of airport infrasteucture. Gosh where are now CTN haters, would kove to have a chat with them.

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    1. Anonymous09:33

      +1 the thing is that Croatia will end up with no FR and OU in Zagreb in a few years. And people fail to realize

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    2. I am the one you want to chat with @An.09.24. By your mindset, I am OU/CTN "hater". Actually, you are the one who hates OU because you accept it the way it is, small, insignificant, loss making, corrupt, inefficient, inert, politically influenced, incompetent, unable to compete.... You judge company which suspended 28 % of the services during two months outside of peak season, and in the year with pLandemic still on and the war close by, company which gets ZERO state aid, and which managed to improve overall ZAG connectivity, even with these temporary reductions in one year, which OU didn't do for 30 years. The only thing missing in your comment is to write "Bravo Hrvatska!". And insulting people who fly Ryanair, me included, calling them "cheap" tells a lot about you. Hope you enjoy our chat. Cheers!

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    3. Anonymous12:09

      Hi there pozdrav iz Rijeke. Before I explain my statements, please allow me to say that you calling Covid-19 pandemic "pLandemic" says way more about you than anything I wrote says about me. But that's not the topic.

      First of all, yes, I judge company that reduced almost third of their schedule which was made only for subventions and to scare off any other carriers that would try to compete on those routes. Ryanair has no state aids that's true, but it enjoys many airport and/or tourist associations (including ZAG) and believe me, that's way worse than state aids.

      Secondly, Ryanair has not improved ZAG's connectivity even slightest. I stay by my statement. Why? Because for example Karlsruhe is not new destination really, it is alternative for Stuttgart, and there are connections for STR from ZAG. I coudl go on but I believe you get the point.

      Finally, yes, I call Ryan passengers cheap. Not to insult you God forbid, but to characterize your approach. Large majority of Ryanair passengers are not using check-in desks, most of them are not using BHS (baggage handling system), virtually none of them uses business lounge. Do I need to continue? ZAG is not benefiting of passengers that are not using any of their infrastructure. Also, this approach is destroying work places at ZAG in long term if we presume that Ryanair will grow in ZAG (again, God forbid). Just thing logically - ZAG will need to expand with larger number of passengers, do you really think that they will allow that they must do multi-million euro expansion to accommodate more Ryanair aircraft? C'mon... Apart from that, airport is worth not how nice buildings and terminals they have, but how many connections they have. If they lean on LCC passengers, which are as we see now not reliable regarding of their schedule (let me remind you that this is not their first time of large flight cancellations), ZAG can forget mainline US carriers some day, they can forget Air Canada, Korean, man even Transat. Why? No connections, no code shares. You think Canadian guy will buy Air Canada ticket and then search through Ryanair how to catch a connection (without real connection btw, passenger like this should leave airport and check-in again).

      I dont't say that CTN is perfect, hell no. You said right in the part of CTN being loss making, corrupt, inefficient, inert etc. No one can disapprove that. But, you don't see the big picture of a state having it's national carrier. And I don't have time to explain that to you right now. Just think one thing, if new pandemic should come one day, do you really think that Ryanair would operate repatriation flights? Or that Ryanair would bring aid to the country?

      But I don't blame you, your nickname says it all, let's hate CTN because they have not based all of their fleet in Rijeka. Not the topic but RJK is appendix of Croatian airports which need to recalculate their business, airline business is not for them.

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    4. Anonymous13:39

      Yes, 100% true

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    5. Hi! You are very much wrong about me having idea for OU to base their entire fleet in RJK. It's BS and nonsense, it never ever even slip my mind and I never mentioned it as a remote possibility.

      Second thing I disagree is that LCC and legacy carriers exclude which other, on the contrary, only coexistence of both can make an airport big, real hub and well connected.

      Third, not all of the passengers flying to Stuttgart are going to Stuttgart, most of them go to Karlsruhe, Baden Baden or other places around. Also low cost passengers spend sometimes more than legacy passengers.

      Fourth, it's always possible to make an Annex to existing concession contract, regarding growth and passengers numbers as well. Old terminal is ideal for LCC.

      Fifth, I don't expect person who see everything black and white to understand me using term pLandemic.

      Nice talking to you. Ciao!

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    6. Damn i live in australia but somehow your grammar is better than mine.

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    7. Anonymous17:48

      Damn! Bravo pozdrav!

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    8. JU520 BEGLAX18:32

      Bravo pozdrav iz Rijeke. Like your arguments! Sretan uskrs and enjoy Jadran.

      PS: It seems that the sea breeze clears peoples mind.

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    9. Thanks guys! Good to see good people around! Enjoy! 😃

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    10. The main resson why I refuse to fly Ryan Air because they pay poo
      slatoes and treat everbody poorly:
      it is a so called parasite airline so no good can comemfrom
      such an approach on a long term…

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    11. +1
      can't believe these Ryanair fanboys here. I wanted to write a long statement when Ryanair announced ZAG as a new base and the majority here wanted OU to end in a coffin .. but then I deleted it. Now you see that FR is nothing else than a big swarm of grasshoppers. Didnt fly for FR since 2017 and will never do again, prefer to pay twelve times more for OU or any other normal carrier.

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    12. Dear friend, you are not in a position to write any statements here. This is the place to express and discuss opinions, preferably based on the facts, not writing statements (which usually include no facts). I am far far far away from being FR fanboy, the other day I wrote here they were ones who succesfully started prostitution of the airline industry. And I am not the one who wants OU to end in the coffin, on the contrary, I want OU much bigger, much better, well run, efficient, professional, famous. Unfortunatelly, it's highly likely they will end in the coffin shortly, which has absolutely nothing to do with FR. And I absolutely support you in your decision never to fly FR again, as much as I expect you to support me continuing taking all available carriers, FR, OU, JU, LH, EK or XYZ, based on my needs and convenience, without prejudices

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  8. Anonymous09:33

    Real disappointment.

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  9. Anonymous09:51

    They were selling tickets for 10 euros. Now everyone that bought them will have to pay much more to book another flight.

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  10. Anonymous09:54

    Doesn't the subsidy agreement prevent them from suspending routes? Why does Zagreb Airport let them?

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    1. Anonymous09:58

      Well if they sue them they go completely so Zagreb airport is in loss-loss situation rn

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    2. Anonymous09:58

      And imagine if it was the other way around and ZAG somehow broke the terms of the agreement? FR would pull out and sue them straight away

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  11. Anonymous09:54

    I'm surprised by some of the routes they are decreasing from Zagreb

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  12. Anonymous09:55

    This will go into July and August eventually.

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  13. Lcc's anounce many fake flights just to discourage competition.

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  14. Anonymous10:02

    Ryanair cancelled Sofia to Zadar in May, now Sofia to Zagreb in May.
    It would not be a surprise if Budapest to Burgas in May will be next.
    Ouch!

    Tickets on the Zagreb to Sofia route were extremely cheap, just for flights one week ahead. I suppose load factor was very low.

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    1. Anonymous10:07

      I just checked: Zagreb Sofia tickets for flights in May 2022 are still available on the Ryanair webpage. How is it possible?

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    2. Anonymous10:12

      ^It's suspended in June

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    3. Anonymous10:14

      You are right. I misread it.

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    4. Anonymous14:18

      What has Budapest-Burgas got to do with Zagreb-Sofia? Plus, there were always flights between those 2 cities in summer even during communist times.

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  15. Anonymous10:03

    Perhaps there was a reason OU wasn't flying these routes, or simply FR does not have a suitable aircraft for these routes.

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  16. Anonymous10:03

    Unfortunate, although I'm not so surprised about Zagreb-Corfu. I very much doubted in that route's success since it was announced.

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    1. Anonymous10:12

      I doubted about Zagreb Paphos next month too.

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  17. Anonymous10:24

    Maybe Ljubljana was right not to go in bed with them :D
    Looks like Zagreb is just loosing money for subsidies and not getting flights in return

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    1. Anonymous10:39

      LJU is in bed with LH. Thats worse.

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    2. Anonymous11:08

      Ljubljana just got new LCC route. First plane was almost sold out.

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    3. And you can barely find any tickets for London. They are almost all sold out or expensive af.

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    4. Anonymous11:17

      Half expecting easyjet to double the flights if the demand keeps rising; Myself I paid 650€ for round trip for this weeks last minute trip...

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    5. Anonymous11:28

      Celebrating one LCC route as if you have a flight to the moon says everything about aviation in Slovenia.

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    6. Anonymous11:29

      First flight on LJU-ORY "almost sold out"? ORY-LJU had 139 passengers out of 189 seats (73% LF) and LJU-ORY 103 (54% LF). Thats not "almost sold out"

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    7. Anonymous11:29

      Ljubljana - London will be soon double daily. Latest in June.

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    8. Anonymous11:34

      Ann 11:29 yes becouse of British Airways .hoping for double easyjet as well

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    9. Anonymous11:35

      It used to be 3 daily.. 23 weekly to be exact. Atleast that was planned in 2020

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    10. Anonymous11:43

      No-one is celebrating. But the fact is they planned first flight on 24th of April and they pushed it forward due to strong demand. And 73% LF for first flight on a route where you have daily Air France is a good start if you ask me. I would not be surprised if they make it year round 4 times weekly - same as Amsterdam.

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    11. Anonymous11:46

      Anonymous11:35 - it will be back to 3 daily at one point. UK is the biggest market for Ljubljana and if winter is semi normal we should have triple daily flights in summer 2023.

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    12. Anonymous11:49

      What does any of this have to do with Ryanair's operations to Zagreb?

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    13. Anonymous14:50

      Everything.

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  18. Ryanair = the disgrace of European aviation. Flew them once, never ever again in my life.

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    1. I see your point however I disagree. They changed aviation for good. They are just making economic desisions you dont know

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    2. I flew with them over 30 times. And I will again. Only twice slight delay, all flights on time. Not one single problem ever. For passengers who know to travel and don't want to be ripped off, they are the best company. That's from the passenger's point of view. As airline professional, I agree they initiated changes which resulted in kind of "prostitution" within industry, which used to be "elite" and "prestigious" long time ago, but is not any more, which some people refuse to accept

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    3. This is true. However, we need to consider several things here. You mention the “prostitution” of the profession. Tell me: all those pilots who are qualified, and can’t get a job at “flag carriers”, supposed to sit and cry over it, or go to companies that will give them a job with more than competitive salaries? I’m pretty sure you have experience in this field, you know how it works. Having the status and union coverage like Air France, KLM, and DLH is a matter of history because even they are creating low cost subsidiaries with contracts that are far worse than their legacy counterparts. RYR did start all that, but isn’t the sole culprit. It’s called neo-capitalism, it creates the race to the bottom, and just like any ideological extreme, it’s far from ideal.

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    4. Fully agree, maybe I used to strong word, but you said in more details what I meant

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    5. Anonymous14:17

      @pozdrav iz Rijeke

      "which used to be "elite" and "prestigious" long time ago, but is not any more, which some people refuse to accept" - uff, you do realize FR was charging (not too long ago and they're doing it again) its pilots 28k EUR for the type rating? Every pilot was required to pay for his/hers own uniform, ID card, car parking, food, water, etc. You earned 0 EUR during the initial line training (as a First Officer who was already in debt) until safety pilot release.

      So, no Ryanair pilot was ever thinking about "elite" and "prestigious". It would just be nice to have some free water for a 10 hour shift instead of paying 6 EUR/l on board the aircraft.

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    6. 2015 figures:
      Assessment 300 EUR + airplane ticket
      Type rating 29500 EUR
      License conversion and type rating 600 EUR
      Uniform 300-500 EUR
      ID 60 EUR

      Your first salary is around 6 months from the date of entry. You’re broke as f… until then.

      BUT…

      From CPL 200 h until 737 skipper it’s 4 years. You be the judge.

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    7. @Harvey Specter

      Frankly speaking, I don't understand you. I believe we think and write the same. I am perfectly aware of everything you write about. Before, long time ago it was impossible to pay for training, type rating, additional expenses. Pilots, cabin crew, engineers, all people employed by an airline, were respected and honoured, had excellent salaries and didn't have to pay to fly and similar BS. Not without a reason. Then Ryanair philosophy came, which resulted in "prostitution", not us, if you meant that's I was saying. I was referring to the entire industry. We are not that well paid any more, we have to cover for all kinds of stuff, and we are not respected and honoured any more. So range of jobs in aviation industry which were seen as "elite" and "prestigious" are not that any more. Hope we cleared misunderstanding now. If still not, please write again.

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    8. @pozdrav iz Rijeke

      I honestly didn’t get any of your posts in a bad way, from all you wrote today (and have before) we are on the same page. For the figures I stated I merely wanted to reply to anon 14:17 and back up the idea that in RYR you pay for everything yourself in, with concrete figures that are even more defeating than the anon mentioned. So prostitution- there’s no question about it. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it started with RYR et al. who charged a fee for training, and some in later years PTF. I hate the word “competition” because it’s not always healthy, and in our case it turned out to be bad enough for the profession that we choose to characterize it as prostitution. Fully justified. 30 years ago CPL was enough, then the companies started demanding MEP/MEIR, then MCC, shortly after JOC, and today finally the unnecessary UPRT that candidates do during type rating anyway. My point in the last sentence of my last post is that we’re not left with any other choice but to focus very hard n considering all this money spent an investment.

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    9. @Harvey
      Uuuups! My bad my bad! Somehow I overlooked and changed @An.14.17. post for yours. My mistake. Sorry! 😃

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    10. Anonymous06:38

      @Harvey Specter: A-UPRT is required prior starting first type rating, and has to be done in an aircraft, not a simulator. Blame the regulator (EASA), not the airlines.

      @pozdrav iz Rijeke: The entire industry is not prestigious anymore, because as the technology has advanced, the flying has become easier, cheaper and thus more accessible. A flight from Warsaw to Malaga is just as normal today than it was taking a bus from Zagreb to Belgrade 50 years ago, and people have to adapt they are not skygods anymore, just because they can fly a highly automated aircraft from A to B.

      Aviation is not the only industry in this position, but you either adapt or become obsolete.

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    11. I am well aware of EASA and UPRT, but candidates do it ANYWAY on type rating on the very type they’ll be flying for the foreseeable future. Waste of money.

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    12. Anonymous08:50

      @06:38:
      "the flying has become easier" -I do agree with the statement, however bear in mind that FTL today is not what it used to be (beancounters do everything they can to squeez ever last drop (of utilization) out of you.

      I like to compare pilots to physicians (although the latter have far less responsibility than pilots and they don't pay for their mistakes with their lives). There has been no such "prostitution" and degradation of T&C in medicine.

      All in all, we are our own worst enemy, not the technology. If it wasn't for the starry-eyed youngsters willing to sell their mothers for a seat in a big shiny jet or for the old geezers trying relentlessly to avoid the last flight of their careers (even willing to accept shi* contracts just to keep flying), there wont' be any shortage of pilots and the deterioration of conditions can continue indefinitely.

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    13. “Flying has become easier“ LOL…

      High speed tyre failure, damaged flap, damaged gear, engine severe damage, engine flame out, engine fire, mayday this and mayday that, cargo fire, multiple rejected takeoff scenarios, circle approach, circle go around, hijack, bomb on board uncontrollable cabin fire, ditching, wind shear escape manoeuvre, apu fire, evacuation, pilot incapacitation drills, technical failures at a few feet in fog, various single engine scenarios, fume events, sick passengers, low fuel scenarios, hydraulic failures, runaway stabilisers, unusual attitudes, stall and upset recovery, 15 hours of simulator in 3 days, just to qualify for my own job for another 6 months. Flying is a career where you spend your life being constantly examined just to qualify for the job you already have. That’s because it is hard.

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    14. Anonymous11:12

      @Harvey Specter:
      Weren't all the things you mentioned also applicable some 50 years ago? I'm pretty sure it was more difficult to fly a B707 then an A320 (despite an extra crew member).
      As I said before, modus operandi has changed considerably. Nowadays, you can legally fly 6 sectors in one day and 100 block hours a month.

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    15. Anonymous11:22

      @Harvey Specter

      Just to clarify, being a pilot is by no means pushing buttons and flying on A/P all day long. It has become a godawful job but we still love to do it.

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    16. That’s all true. Some things have gotten better (navigation and general reliability), and some worse (the list is exhaustive) :)

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  19. Anonymous11:31

    Basel and Memmingen are the most successful Wizz routes from exYu. Canceling Basel and reducing Memmingen je blamaža !

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  20. Two things are certain with RYR: 1-They will open a base anywhere, even if it doesn’t make sense to the hoi polloi; 2-They will close ANY base if it’s not up to their terms, even the biggest ones, even the one where the EW’s and MOL’s mothers are based.

    But rest assured, they will be the last “man” standing.

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  21. Many don’t realize they work on the principle of trial and error. They open a route, monitor its performance, and if it’s not making money, they ditch it. I’ve seen dozens of routes cancelled in this manner across the network and throughout many years.

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  22. Anonymous12:40

    Croatians do not travel much and once a holiday maker has done Zagreb once I doubt they return. Lots of the FR routes were cheap copies of existing routes, but since they were flying to airports nearby that were technically different so they got a deal. It also appears Slovenes don't need the ZAG routes despite being told time and time again the planes were full of cross boarder travellers.

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    1. Hahahaha when everything was regular, all flights were full of Slovenes only, now when 20 % of flights are temporarily suspended for month or two, Slovenes don't use ZAG FR flights at all. And Croatians don't travel much mantra again. Hilarious :) :) :)

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      You know it is true though.

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  23. Anonymous12:59

    Gosh, if they are doing badly, one can only imagine what state OU are in ....

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    1. Anonymous13:06

      I hate to imagine !!!!

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  24. Anonymous13:05

    I don't see why people get so steamed up over this. FR are an airline which is all about making money. They are not a social service to continue to fly routes and markets irrespective of the prevailing market conditions. If more government owned airlines had such a commercial mandate, we wouldn't be seeing them stagnate and live off the public purse.

    What would people expect them to do ? To continue to fly loss making routes ?

    Being agile and flexible in trying new routes yet pulling out in a timely basis to stop the bleeding when things don;t go as planned, is exactly what well run businesses do. It's no surprise that FR is a hugely profitable enterprise, while gov't owned airlines such as OU are hugely loss making and unprofitable

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    1. JU520 BEGLAX18:58

      Anonym 13:05h

      I wouldnt fly FR cause I am in certain aspects old fashioned and I still love the legacy carriers, who back in the 70 and 80s were connecting nations with the world. I liked the good old time with service on board the aircraft and one of the things I dislike the most, is being squezzed in an aircraft with no leg room. FR and EZY have became very succesful and they are impacting the legacy carriers with all the service cuts, which today is reality whether u fly AA LX LH BA or FR EZY WIZZ.
      I understand everybody who flies LCC and has the desire to see the world and can not afford flying on legacy carriers or in Business. I was lucky enough to be employed in the aviation sector, so I had plenty of access to cheap ID travel and Business or First Class travel. No I am in a age, where I am good with one or two air travels per year. I am using even the train for my holidays. U and pozdrav iz Rijeke are saying many true things, I for the sake of the regional economical development and airline industry, would just be happy to see more succesful ex YU airlines, which would enable more jobs in the aviation sector. But this romantic is over. Today is no time anymore for romance. Consolidation we see in every industry, the big corporations have more and more market shares and the Anglosaxions will continue to force privatisation of public sector, where ever they can in the so called free and liberal western world. So more and more market is in less hands. We are far from being free and liberal but this is another topic, which would generate dozens of new comments.

      Enjoy a sunny Easter holiday. I am in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland (by train) ;-)

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  25. Anonymous13:12

    Ryanzz Air.

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  26. Anonymous13:43

    Is Ryanair going to refund these passengers or will they just give them a voucher? Will Ryanair honor the voucher at the same price for future travel? Ryanair,in my opinion ,hopes the passenger doesn't use the voucher. More money in Ryanair's pocket and nothing for the passenger. Best scam in town.

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    1. Full refund within 5-6 days, or rebooking to later date or close airport, if available

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    2. Anonymous14:01

      Ryan air is one of the most dilligent airlines regarding refunds. Source: work as an agent in a company that refunded over 3M eur in the last two years.

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    3. Anonymous14:02

      Ryanair does not offer you alternatives or full refund. It gives you a voucher.

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    4. Yeah right, you know better, read today's Jutarnji list with statements of several passengers who were already fully refunded for the cancellations.

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  27. Anonymous14:35

    Only 26% all Ryanair flights cancelled in ZG during May and June...that's nothing...but dozen new airlines coming to ZG during the summer season..

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    1. Anonymous14:38

      Dozen means 12. Which 12 new airlines are coming? Since you put it in plural it must mean more than 12. Looking forward to your response.

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  28. Anonymous16:10

    The main reason the cannot keep up with their own expansion ambition is due to the lack of Cabin Crew, too many people is leaving constantly ZAG base due to the low salaries for Cabin Crew and they have to rely on Cabin Crew coming from VIE and STN to keep up with the demand which in the long run is not profitable, they have been doing this for the past 6 months. I was based there, and you can ask any Cabin Crew there no one wants to stay in ZAG. Neither ZAD as the Cabin Crew contract in ZAD is a 6 months contract then another 6 months in ZAG which in the long run for Cabin Crew is impossible to maintain moving every 6 months with those salaries. Why do you think recently the launched a big recruitment process for Lauda in ZAG? Is beacuse they want to attract locals as is the only way the base can be run "with Cabin Crew living with their parents". Why managers and supervisors are posting in their own social media accounts? "Do you want to become a Cabin Crew DM me?" To join ZAG base.

    That said, the company has great ambitions but it's lack of care towards its Crew has lead to this. And belive me when I tell you; any promise regarding launch of new routes depends solely on Cabin Crew numbers.

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    1. Anonymous11:18

      Ryanair starts "caring" (in reality they don't give a shi*) about its employees when they have to cancel flights due to crew shortage. Until then, it's all about reducing cost. It's always been like that and will most probably be for the foreseeable future (even if MOL decides to leave one day).

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  29. Anonymous19:23

    Ryanair =Scamair

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  30. You are all overreacting.

    O'leary at the recent A4E conference in Brussels said they want to base a extra 40 aircraft in Italy alone and another 10-20 in Spain and Portugal. Example is the announcement of a new base in Madeira announced yesterday.

    ZAG is still on the books but you need to give it time as there is higher yield in these other markets. Once more Maxes arrive ZAG will go to plan.

    It has nothing to do with ZAG management or croatian politics. Just more opportunities as other markets finally grow which was not expected at this volume previously.

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    1. Anonymous06:42

      +1

      People still don't understand airlines these days are just like any other business with movable assets. If you can make more money (higher yield) elsewhere, it'd be stupid to not take the opportunity.

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  31. Ryanair has overestimated the Zagreb demand potential. Too any routes to some destinations. Focus on only on high demand diaspora destinations like Dublin & cities in Germany and seasonal vacation goers from richer northern countries.

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    1. Ryanair hasn't reached yet not even one third of ZAG LCC potential. These short temporary suspensions, not cancellations as ex-yu wrote in the headline, are due to lack of staff, as already explained by some people. But you are more than welcome to believe ZAG has no demand and potential. Future will show are you right or not.

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  32. Anonymous23:39

    Good riddance to Ryanair! That's why a country must never depend on a low cost Airline.

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    1. No, country should depend on servant feeder which flies to 15 destinations alltogether at overblown prices and gives real connection with FRA only

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    2. Anonymous18:33

      OU can very often match or even beat Ryanair on price.

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  33. Anonymous23:45

    Listen to OU management. They predicted last Autumn Ryanair wouldn't be around for long.

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    1. Hahahaha Hahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahaha

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  34. Anonymous15:22

    ^ Ouch.

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  35. Anonymous20:44

    Bravo Hrvatska ! :-)))

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