Croatia Airlines plans network growth


Croatia Airlines is gearing up for the start of the height of the 2022 summer season with the carrier to station two aircraft in Split, shift several routes previously operated out of Zagreb and increase frequencies on a number of services from the country’s second largest city. From its main base in Zagreb, the airline will restore 2019 summer frequencies to several destinations. These include Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London Heathrow, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, and Zurich, as well as its domestic flights. None of the destinations will be operating above pre-Covid levels from Zagreb. The airline plans to return to the Middle East with the resumption of a one weekly service from the Croatian capital to Tel Aviv starting June 3. Although the route has been added to the Global Distribution System, tickets are currently not on sale. Compared to the pre-pandemic period, Croatia Airlines will be operating eleven fewer destinations from its main hub.

Croatia Airlines Zagreb operations in June

Destination

Weekly frequency

Notes

Amsterdam

7

 

Athens

3

via Dubrovnik

Barcelona

3

 

Brussels

10

11 flights from JUN 21

Brač

2

 

Copenhagen

7

 

Dublin

2

suspended from JUN 9

Dubrovnik

23 - 28

27 flights from JUN 13

28 flights from JUN 20

Frankfurt

18 - 19

11 flights from JUN 13

London Heathrow

3

 

Munich

9 - 12

12 flights from JUN 6

10 flights from JUN 13

9 flights from JUN 27

Paris

7

 

Pula

10

3 flights nonstop

7 via Zadar

Rome

9

7 flights via Split

2 flights via Dubrovnik

Sarajevo

13

 

Skopje

10

 

Split

24 - 29

29 flights from JUN 6

24 flights from JUN 13

Tel Aviv

1

resumes JUN 3

Vienna

6 - 9

9 flights from JUN 6

6 flights from JUN 13

Zadar

8

 

Zurich

14

 

 

The Croatian carrier will maintain 21 destinations out of Split this summer. As previously reported, it will shift services formerly operated out of the capital, including Bucharest, Milan and Stockholm, while Dublin, which is still being maintained from Zagreb, will be suspended and moved to Split from mid-June. Amsterdam will complete the line-up of new routes from Croatia’s second largest city this summer. Croatia Airlines plans to have two aircraft stationed in Split over the coming months - an Airbus A319 and a Dash 8 turboprop. By doing so, the carrier will increase frequencies on a number of routes it has traditionally served from the city, outstripping pre-pandemic levels. These include Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Lyon, Munich and Vienna, while no destination will be served with fewer flights than three years ago.

Croatia Airlines Split operations in June

Destination

Weekly frequency

Notes

Amsterdam

1

starts JUN 14

Athens

1

 

Berlin

1

 

Bucharest

2

starts JUN 10

Copenhagen

3

 

Dublin

3

starts JUN 12

Dusseldorf

2

 

Frankfurt

9

 

London Gatwick

2

 

London Heathrow

1

 

Lyon

1 - 2

2 flights from JUN 15

Paris

3

 

Prague

1

 

Milan

2

starts JUN 12

Munich

10 - 12

12 flights from JUN 13

Rome

7

 

Vienna

5 - 7

7 flights from JUN 13

Osijek

1

 

Stockholm

2

starts JUN 12

Zurich

5

 

Zagreb

22 - 25

22 flights from JUN 6

25 flights from JUN 13

 

Apart from Zagreb and Split, Croatia Airlines will operate several international destinations from Dubrovnik, as well as Munich from Rijeka and Osijek. The carrier’s Head of Network and Revenue Management, Krešimir Mlinar, recently said, “Based on the outlook that leisure travel and tourism will recover quicker than business travel following the coronavirus pandemic, we made certain changes to our network. From June onwards, we expect high levels of fleet utilisation. Some aircraft types will be in use more than in 2019. That year we also had two jets on wet-lease so as to reduce seasonality. However, it was too risky to employ the same strategy this year”.

Croatia Airlines Dubrovnik operations in June

Destination

Weekly frequency

Notes

Athens

3

 

Frankfurt

6 - 7

7 flights from JUN 13

Osijek

1

 

Munich

4

 

Paris

5

 

Rome

2

 

Zurich

4

 

Zagreb

25 - 27

27 flights from JUN 13

 



Comments

  1. Anonymous09:01

    What is with flights decreasing on some routes from Zagreb in the middle of June?!?

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    1. Anonymous09:02

      And Munich was double daily in May to end up 9 weekly in the middle of June.

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    2. Anonymous09:04

      They shift their focus and planes to the cost from the middle of June. That's why.

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    3. Anonymous09:05

      And of course let Lufthansa/Star Alliance operate the most flights during the busiest time of year.

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    4. Anonymous09:13

      This is how LH treats its feeder airlines. Nothing new.

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    5. Anonymous09:45

      How many flights will Lufthansa have between Munich and Zagreb in June?

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    6. Anonymous09:52

      Only 7 so I don't know what you guys are going on about how they left the market to Lufthansa.

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    7. Anonymous10:00

      What about FRA-ZAG on LH?

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    8. Anonymous10:01

      12 weekly. So we can conclude that Croatia Airlines isn't operating fewer flights than LH during the peak summer months.

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  2. Anonymous09:02

    The Zagreb network is woeful. This airline could do so much more. Split is becoming respectable although most routes are rather low frequnecy,

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  3. Anonymous09:03

    I thought they will introduce split - dubai/doha/bahrain routes. But then I remembered it's croatia and that they don't have the money for the fuel it takes to fly to those destinations

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    1. Anonymous09:05

      They never flew there for them to return there :)

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    2. Anonymous10:02

      Not launching Dubai back in the day was a mistake.

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  4. Anonymous09:06

    So what is the long term strategy? And whatever happened to plans to buy new planes?

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    1. Anonymous09:21

      There is no long-term strategy

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    2. Anonymous10:03

      And last year we were talking about them replacing their entire fleet with A220s....

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  5. Anonymous09:06

    It is shocking how passive they suddenly became in ZAG.

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    1. Anonymous10:03

      The last time they were not passive was 22 years ago. In the early 2000s. The only "major" expansion they had since then was in 2017-2019 when they started a bunch of seasonal routes, none of which are no longer operating.

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  6. Anonymous09:06

    11 routes less from ZAG? Crazy

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    1. Anonymous09:10

      It's called the Ryanair effect.

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    2. Anonymous09:36

      It has nothing to do with Ryan. From all non-resumed routes Ryan is operating on only 2 of them.

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    3. Anonymous10:02

      So what's the issue?

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    4. Anonymous10:16

      OUs decisions.

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  7. Anonymous09:12

    This is such a disappointment compared to the Air Serbia table from the other day. Especially since this airline has much more potential considering it is part of Star Alliance, based in one of the most visited countries in Europe etc.

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    1. Anonymous09:16

      Agree with you fully. Although I do find it interesting that they managed to restore their pre-Covid frequencies to Sarajevo and Skopje unlike Air Serbia.

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    2. Anonymous09:17

      I agree with you about Skopje but regarding Sarajevo, Air Serbia's frequencies there will b at pre-covid levels in June. That said they do operate fewer flights than Croatia Airlines.

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    3. Anonymous09:18

      Croatia Airlines has a good reputation in Sarajevo, which is why it has more flights and more success there. Most of the Sarajevo passengers are transfers onto Swiss, Lufthansa and Austrian flights from Zagreb. Flying with OU as Star member allows them to connect onto all of these as if flying with the same airline.

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    4. Anonymous10:04

      They were the first airline to start flights to Sarajevo after the war. It's a long relationship and they have kind of nurtured that market for a very long time.

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    5. Anonymous10:06

      I'm sure both OU and JU have been impacted by Wizz Air in Sarajevo.

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    6. Anonymous10:09

      They are both restoring pre Covid frequencies so doesn't look like it.

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    7. Anonymous21:25

      People have to understand that for the most part, on gasto heavy routes, Wizz Air creates a whole new category of passengers, primarily people who used to come by car or bus.

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  8. Anonymous09:13

    This does not look like The strategy at all. It is rather short-term tactic, since shift from ZAG to SPU looks like matrix of scheduled charters. Meanwhile during summer, they will additionally sink their market share in ZAG, thus creating environment of unused fleet.
    Seems to me they are helping Ryan to dominate at their home.
    Or... the strategy is completely to re-base its home to SPU from S23, if survive.

    My 2 cents...

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    1. Anonymous09:16

      +1

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    2. Anonymous10:09

      They already announced a few weeks ago (there was an article here) how they will keep growing Split this winter and next summer. So strategy might be to completely shift focus to Split and maintain basic Lufthansa Group feeder routes - Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, Vienna and Brussels from Zagreb + domestic flights.

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  9. Anonymous09:14

    Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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  10. Anonymous09:16

    How about launching some new routes from Zagreb?

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    1. Anonymous09:19

      They still haven't restored almost a dozen routes from Zagreb and you expect them to launch new destinations?

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  11. Anonymous09:19

    The Zagreb-Rome flights via Dubrovnik and Split will forever be a mystery to me. Especially now when Ryanair operates nonstop service.

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  12. Anonymous09:20

    Great to see them increasing frequencies on a lot of flights from Split. But they will have to deal with Zagreb and make a strategy what to do there.

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    1. Anonymous09:23

      Wasn't that BCG's job to make a strategy for them?

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    2. Anonymous09:24

      There were many expectations, but obviously with no real reason for it.

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    3. Anonymous09:32

      I would have thought that the best way to counter Ryanair in Zagreb would be to grow your network significantly in the region and the west and offer great connections via Zagreb. Guess I was wrong.

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    4. Anonymous09:38

      I agree and it would put them in a good position once Croatia enters Schengen as regional passengers can do passport procedures in Zagreb instead of Germany, France, Austria...

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  13. Anonymous09:21

    I expected much more from them considering the competition they are facing.

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    1. Anonymous09:23

      They completely retreated.

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    2. Anonymous09:24

      I agree. They had almost a year to come up with a response and if this is it, then I am truly worried about their future.

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    3. Anonymous09:41

      Their Star Alliance membership would also help in attracting more transfers.

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  14. Anonymous09:28

    I'm dumbfounded by their logic to pull out of Zagreb-Dublin route during height of summer. I doubt this route will come back next year.

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    1. Anonymous09:39

      More money can probably be made out of Split.

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  15. Anonymous09:28

    Not the way to run a business.

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  16. Anonymous09:29

    Good luck OU! Hope it is a sucsesfull summer.

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  17. Anonymous09:29

    I'm disappointed

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  18. Anonymous09:30

    I'm sorry people but what did you expect? Look at their finances. If they do anything drastic they will just dig their hole deeper.

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    1. Anonymous09:33

      True. At the end of the day, I think this sort of network will bring them money.

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  19. Anonymous09:31

    OU needs to grow - routes and fleet

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    1. Anonymous09:59

      It needs to grow revenue and profits first and foremost.

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  20. Anonymous09:32

    Unfortunately this is going to be another lost year for OU.

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    1. Anonymous09:39

      One of many.

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    2. Anonymous09:41

      The key is how big the loss will be.

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    3. Anonymous09:59

      In Q1 it was bigger than last year.

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    4. Anonymous10:10

      Key will be Q2 and Q3.

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    5. Anonymous20:22

      Nothing will happen

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  21. Anonymous09:39

    uninspiring

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  22. Anonymous09:40

    More routes to Scandinavia please!

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  23. Anonymous09:40

    @exyuaviation

    Can you tell us more about ZAG-SPU-ATH service? Which days is it operating? I currently cannot see on their webpage, only direct flights SPU-ATH which are not originating from ZAG.

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    1. You are correct. The flights via Dubrovnik originate from Zagreb, while the Split service is separate. Amended.

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  24. Anonymous09:45

    Bravo Hrvatska!

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    1. Anonymous11:28

      Hahahaha Hahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahaha

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    2. It was me before, posted as Anonymous by mistake. So, once again : Hahahaha Hahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahaha

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  25. Anonymous09:53

    All the focus is on ZAG and SPU but what about DBV? Thought that would have a lot of potential. They have really reduced their operations from there. Many routes suspended during Covid not restored.

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    1. Anonymous09:59

      DBV has long ago decided to stop relying on Croatia Airlines.

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  26. Anonymous09:58

    Will Split manage to stay the busiest airport in Croatia this year due to this OU expansion?

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    1. Anonymous10:07

      It depends on how Ryanair will perform in Zagreb this year. Jury is still out.

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  27. Anonymous10:07

    They could have had a lot of growth and increased revenue had they started Ljubljana flights.

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    1. Anonymous10:10

      I thought this was a non brainer too. If I remember correctly they were actually considering it 2 years ago?

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    2. Anonymous10:40

      Actting like LJU is a goldmine

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    3. Anonymous19:17

      Because it kind of is. ZAG is saturated with destinations, LJU is not. That is why every new route out of LJU is very successful. OU could use this as an opportunity to connect it with Iberian peninsula, Rome, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, ...

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    4. Anonymous20:06

      @ Anonymous - 19:17
      Very good point.

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    5. Anonymous23:46

      19:17 Is it? Wizz Air after all these years still can't maintain more than 2 destinations, meanwhile they're exploding in SJJ, TIA. That says a lot.

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  28. Anonymous10:29

    They should fly to Rome and Athens from Zagreb nonstop, especially Athens where the route remains unserved in the winter period as Aegean operates seasonal flights sadly. OU needs to wake up and operate ZAG-ATH year-round and without a stop in DBV.

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    1. Anonymous21:26

      How many weekly flights does Aegean have to Zagreb?

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    2. Anonymous21:31

      2 weekly with A320.

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  29. Not one single positive comment about OU. Exactly what they deserve, as the World Champion in missed opportunities and wasted potentials. And the person who spits on me every time I give negative comment on OU is completely silent. How so?

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    1. Anonymous13:59

      Well-well-well !!! Once again so predictable and boring ! Dear POZDRAV , if by any chance you have any proof of OU corruption please go to an attorney or to the police and stop making our minds , and yours a mess !!!

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    2. Hahaha did I mention crime and corruption today? No! But everyone scratches where the itch is, and once again cristaly clear you show why are you here.

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    3. Anonymous14:40

      So...... Are you gonna do something about that ??!!! Or you are just another chicken with no reason ??!!!

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    4. You better stop pretending Croatia is country with the rule of law and functioning institutions, especially judiciary, because it is not. But one day, it will have to become the land with the rule of law and functional judiciary, and at that day you will be very sad and disappointed because there will be no more free sandwiches and Party booklet will not mean absolutely safety and protection.

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    5. Anonymous18:08

      POZDRAV : Bla...Bla ... Bla ... Bla ... Actions please actions ! We've had enough of words !

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  30. Anonymous12:14

    So a flight to TLV is a return to middle east?

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  31. Anonymous12:40

    @exyuaviation
    Paris flights from DBV are missing in table

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  32. Anonymous13:01

    Athens via Dubrovnik... No comment, peak of the tourist season.

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  33. Anonymous13:28

    Croatia Airlines and Bulgaria Air are one to one. Both combine routes (ZAG-SPU-FCO / SOF-PRG-ZRH). Although FB relies more on ACMI.

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    1. Anonymous13:32

      this summer there are 2 A320 (Condor) 1 320 (GP Aviation), 2 E190 (TAP). I think that if OU rents planes it would make a big profit.

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    2. Anonymous13:36

      There are rumors about the A220 that will be ordered soon! The news comes from the kitchen😉
      I'm talking about FB.

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    3. Anonymous21:22

      FB is ordering A220s?!?

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    4. Anonymous06:35

      It will be officially announced this year. Most likely through Air Lease Corporation.

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    5. Maybe they should contact Ivan & Tena Ltd for some double lease possibilities?

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  34. Anonymous16:40

    Guys with all those comments i don't know if Slovenia or Croatia is better in aviation, because LJU is doing really well without any airline, but ZAG or SPU are almost nothing without its dearly loved almost banckrupt Croatia Airlines

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    1. Anonymous21:22

      Ljubljana doing really well?? Have you checked the statistics?

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    2. Anonymous21:34

      Yes I have, but remember, Slovenia doesn't have any carrier and Croatia does have one but one how's gonna die really quick

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  35. Anonymous21:15

    Croatia Airlines is such a sluzzy carrier.

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    1. Anonymous21:22

      Lazy more like it.

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    2. Anonymous02:00

      Lousy, more like it.

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  36. Anonymous21:26

    At least they restored Spain. That's the only route launched in the last few years that has been sustained.

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  37. Anonymous07:10

    I checked their website and they are still selling ZAG-FRA as 19 to 21 weekly.

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    1. Anonymous09:27

      That is correct. This table is wrong about FRA decrease.

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  38. Anonymous14:29

    Ima jedan portal čije ime ne bi spominjali, ali svi će ionako znati, koji u posljednje vrijeme nastoji dobiti što više komentara i klikova tako da namjerno stavlja naslove i tekstove kojima je jedina svrha da isprovocira zagrižene iz Hrvatske i Srbije koji onda prosipaju komentare koji su ispod svake razine pristojnosti a kamo li nečeg drugog. On sam čak ubacuje takve komentare koji stvaraju atmosferu balkanske krčme. Posljednji mu je biser tekst s filozofskim pitanjem treba li se zagrebačka zračna luka zvati dr. Franjo Tuđman. Možete mislit komentare. Svaki tjedan objavi po jedan tekst u kojemu preko svake mjere ocrnjuje OU dijeleći svoje tobož stručne komentare. Naravno, sve komentare koji ga uvjerljivo demantiraju bez pardona briše. Ukratko, moje je pitanje je li taj čovjek samo pokušava nešto izreketariti, je li bolestan ili se osvećuje kome za nešto što mi ne znamo.
    Je li možda nudio svoje "usluge" Croatiji pa ga odbili ili tako nešto? Inače se bavi mažoretkinjama.

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