Croatia Airlines considering return to Mostar

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Croatia Airlines is considering the possibility of restoring flights between Zagreb and Mostar which operated twice per week with the Dash 8 turboprop aircraft until the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Following talks with airline officials at the tourism and trade fair ITB Berlin, the Head of the Herzegovina-Neretva government, Nevenko Herceg, said, “The plan is for Croatia Airlines to introduce three weekly flights between Zagreb and Mostar. All the details will be negotiated in the next few months before a final contract is signed”. Mr Herceg noted services could begin as early as May. Croatia Airlines was previously subsidised on its Zagreb to Mostar service by local authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mostar Airport has been struggling to attract airlines and passengers. It handled just five travellers during the first month of the year.

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  1. Anonymous10:31

    If they do resume this route, I can't wait to see how they will fill an A220 in a year or two.

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    1. Anonymous11:38

      My first thought exactly.

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    2. Anonymous13:47

      It will be subsidised so OU won't worry!

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    3. Anonymous21:23

      Isn't Mostar the gateway to the Medjugorje scam?

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  2. Anonymous10:32

    Is this the same official that "signed" an agreement with Wizz Air to launch flights to Mostar?

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  3. Anonymous11:39

    I love the last sentence of the article. It is pure gold.

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  4. Anonymous13:06

    Come on, OU. This is like JP during its dying breath: considering, contemplating, mulling… Be bolder!

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  5. Anonymous13:09

    Oh profitability booster!!

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    1. Anonymous13:24

      😂😂

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    2. Hahahahahahahaha, you made my day 😃

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  6. Anonymous13:45

    I'm just waiting for Pozdrav to find fault with this!

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    1. Anonymous14:07

      LOL, so true!

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    2. Big disappointment. Expected them to link OMO to MUC and FRA, not ZAG 😃

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    3. @An.13.45 and 14.07 (the same one, repeatedly posting twice in 20 min intervals pretending to be two different posters, sick person obsessed with me and my critical thinking) get your self a life and stop focusing on me, better focus on crime, corruption and incompetence in OU. You will not make me angry or sad, and your condition will seriously deteriorate

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  7. Anonymous13:46

    Bravo OU!

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  8. Good news, I hope they will do codeshare with LO on this route as Mostar region is very nice to visit (and to taste Mostar wine ).

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    1. Anonymous21:24

      And to visit Medjugorje scam

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  9. Anonymous14:07

    Bravo Hrvatska!

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    1. Bravo Herceg Bosna! Bravo Kradeze!

      Bravo za pokusaj povezivanja najgoreg aerodroma u ex-yu i najgore aviokompanije, ne samo u ex-yu nego i sire, dva najveca i najbeskorisnija gutaca javnog novca u svom krugu djelovanja. Bravo, ne jednom, bravo bar sto puta!!!!!

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    2. Anonymous07:23

      hahaha +100

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    3. Anonymous19:47

      HDZ and their impotent management at the OMO are just burning governmental money.

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  10. Anonymous14:11

    This could be a real successful route if promoted and done properly. Madugoria is still very popular place for Catholics to visit so OU should get involved with tourist agencies who specialise in pilgrimage's to the site. No brainer really.

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  11. Anonymous14:38

    Why not Split-Mostar? Hasn't Croatia Airlines announced Split as a focus airport?

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    1. Anonymous14:43

      Because... Open the map and find out.

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    2. Anonymous14:55

      Road connection is very bad and it makes more sense to operate OMO-SPU than it is ZAG-OSI, BEG-INI, BEG-BUD or BEG-LJU.

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    3. Driving between most of those cities (except domestic routes) requires border crossing which could be lengthy.

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    4. Anonymous18:23

      Anon 14:38

      You are funny.

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    5. @An.14.55
      It's full profile highway Split to Medjugorje, driving time approximately 1.30 h

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    6. Anonymous08:34

      More like 2 hrs, but doesn't change the point.

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    7. Anonymous16:35

      Which point?

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    8. Anonymous19:48

      It is even less than 1.5 hours of you drive faster. 🤣

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    9. Anonymous22:18

      That's not true.

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    10. Anonymous22:19

      And just to know, no one flies on routes which could be done with 1.5 hour drive.

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  12. Anonymous15:03

    Hear me out; plan for OU is to lease those a220s, and being subsidised by number of empty seats.

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  13. Anonymous15:47

    If the Flt from Zagreb connects to international flights it will be full with pilgrims for Medjugorje, I used to achieve it when I worked for JAT

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  14. Anonymous13:50

    Great news for Mostar. OU should fly every day from Mostar to Zagreb, especially during summer

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    1. OU should should have flown not once but two or three times daily to Zagreb not only from Mostar, but from Sarajevo, Podgorica, Beograd, Pristina, Skopje, Tirana, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Athens, Pula, Zadar and Osijek, and four or five times daily from Split and Dubrovnik. OU should have flown to many more destinations in the Near and Middle East, Scandinavia and the Baltic, Iberian peninsula, Central Europe. OU should have flown long haul, at least to New York, Chicago and Toronto, Delhi, Bangkok and Beijing or Seoul. OU should have positioned itself as main carrier of the Southeastern Europe, in synergy with Zagreb, which should have been the main hub for the region. OU had perfect chance for all of the above listed, some 15 years ago when LCC presence in the region was weak, and legacy competitors Jat Airways, Malev, Tarom, Olympic, Air Bulgaria down on the knees and almost bankrupt. Instead, nothing happened because the entire market was handed over to the Cartel, and OU made pathetic feeder and humiliated servant, in order for few selected persons to have financial and other non material benefits counted in millions, with blessings and under influence of the highest politics.

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    2. Anonymous16:36

      Three times daily to Osijek? Hahahahaha.

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    3. Last time I had hahaha saying the same for Podgorica. Meanwhile TGD turned out to be the service with most transfers to JFK on JU, and FR introduced and than increased frequencies on ZAG-TGD with high capacity equipment. And if you are not capable of getting broader picture of different kind of OU, which is not predominantly feeder but has its own developed network, placed in time frame where development started two decades ago, than the only one who deserves hahaha is you, unless you are just earning your sandwich

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    4. Anonymous21:39

      What are you talking about?

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    5. I am talking about something you either don't understand or pretend not to understand

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    6. Anonymous09:30

      Oh, you are that HDZ member who is the greatest warrior for some incompetent airports?

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    7. Time for mAdikejsn

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    8. Or at least short basic english course

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    9. Anonymous00:20

      Ok, HDZ member. I'm going to do one basic english lecture (despite I don't need it) when you return value of one stolen deutsche mark in euros.

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  15. Miroslav NY i BG18:40

    Maybe OU should attempt flights from Osijek to Ohrid with A330 which they don't have. They would have better luck.

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