NEWS FLASH
British Airways does not plan to operate flights between London Gatwick Airport and Dubrovnik this coming winter season. Last winter the carrier maintained services between the two cities throughout December, January, February and March, however, no flights have been scheduled for the upcoming 2023/24 winter. British Airways’ last two flights of the season from Gatwick are scheduled for October 27, while the carrier will operate its final service of the year from Heathrow to the coastal city on October 28. Services between the two cities will be restored on March 31, 2024. Changes remain possible.
When I told you guys that the economic crisis was coming you were all laughing at me. Who is laughing now? DBV had a bad July and after Vueling now we have BA killing winter flights.
ReplyDeleteThis Niger crisis will impact demand from France since they are getting 50% of their uranium from there. I expect an even softer demand in winter and next summer. People have spent what they saved in covid.
Winter is coming y'all
Honestly I was among one of the folks who kept saying winter's coming comments are overblown, but with everything going on recently, this time it actually might come true. Truly interesting times for aviation ahead of us, and it's only mid-summer season.
DeleteDread, dread, dread. You guys can live in fear and dread all you want, but the fact is the world goes on. Though yours is a great way to keep people in their place and never ask for too much. No, thank you for me at least. And since you’re referencing GoT you ought to know that their winter didn’t last half as long as they had thought it would. What the above news shows is that Croatia has a huge problem with seasonality. As it has had all my life! No changes there.
DeleteAren't we live in a constant crisis? Under every other article there is the "Winter is coming" comment.
DeleteIt seems that crisis is in DBV but not in BEG or LJU.
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DeleteNo, this has nothing to do with seasonality. In July DBV reached 86% of their 2019 numbers, if that's not weak then I don't know what is. Also, for many years BA had winter flights to DBV so these flights were nothing new. So what changed this year? Crazy inflation in the UK happened.
After UK now it's France's turn. They were one of the few rare countries not to experience an energy crisis. Why? Because over 70% of their electricity comes from nuclear reactors. What fuels these reactors? Uranium does. Where does France get over 50% of its uranium From Niger. What happened in Niger last week? A pro-Western government was toppled and uranium exports were halted.
By the way even before this France announced an increase of 10% of electricity prices. Now it will be even more. France is the next to be hit with an economic crisis.
You think this will not impact air travel? Of course it wil.
air travel is literally the first thing to be impacted when things go bad. thats why the uk and turkey still have not recovered from 2019 figures for airport numbers.
Deleteand kosovo and serbia have good numbers cause things go good. give us a break
DeleteKosovo and Serbia i.e. Belgrade and Prishtina, are two very different stories, first from one another, and then on top of that, both are very different from Dubrovnik. Especially Prishtina which isn't a tourist destination where people come to spend money. So of course Dubrovnik would be stronger affected by any crisis when people are careful with their disposable income.
DeleteWhy do you think Kosovo was least affected by covid and is additionally recovering faster than any other airport in Europe? Let me give you a hint: because Kosovo's economy is in a permanent rut and people are escaping to earn money elsewhere.
And to the person above claiming France gets over 50% of its uranium from Niger, that is factually incorrect. It is 20%, which is still a significant portion...so why invent numbers?
BA was the only one operating flights from London to DBV in the winter. There’s a reason why no one operates flights there during that period.
DeleteBA flies this route on and off during winter. One year it's operational some years it's not
ReplyDeleteNot true. It has been fully operational for many many years
DeleteCroatian cost is not the breadbasket during winter. There is nothing to do there during winter and there is no profit in running flights off-season.
ReplyDeleteI'm a brit, and to be honest always presumed there were no flights to SPU, DBV between October to around April, so imagine a lot of people don't even think to look
DeleteThe plane will go to BEG in winter.
ReplyDeleteor ljubljana :)
DeleteChrist, these comments are beyond stupid. British Airways flew to Dubrovnik from Gatwick in winters.
DeleteLol u are stupid. Like it matters where it was flying from? They will use it for another route and they were joking it will be belgrade or ljubljana… so breathe it was just a joke
DeleteIt will go where they can make the most money with it...
ReplyDeleteThis is dreadful news for me as my daughter lives in Dubrovnik. I was delighted with the return of the Gatwick flight. Why don't they just scrap one?
ReplyDeleteBravo Hrvatska! Zivijo Kradeze!
ReplyDeleteHaving been in DBV during winter I can see why the route has been scrapped. Very little is open, small town, the weather is poor and locals in tourism are on winter break between October and April, preferring to rob tourists between May and September with outrageous prices.
ReplyDeleteTrue.
DeleteI am a Dubrovnik local, and I have always been complaining about our prices. I just came back from Budva, I will never complain about Dubrovnik prices anymore, I hope they get even higher, I don't want my city ever to become something like Budva where hordes and hordes of low income and low cultured tourists destroy once a very beautiful city.
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