Departing Zadar
| Destination | Launch date | Weekly frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Košice | 31.03.2024 | 2 |
| Kaunas | 01.06.2024 | 2 |
| Barcelona | 02.06.2024 | 2 |
| Cork | 03.06.2024 | 2 |
| Copenhagen | 04.06.2024 | 2 |
Departing Banja Luka
| Destination | Launch date | Weekly frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Baden Baden | 01.04.2024 | 2 |
In Banja Luka, Ryanair will introduce a new two weekly service from Baden Baden. It will complement its flights from Charleroi, Gothenburg, Memmingen, Stockholm and Vienna to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second largest city. Unlike the 2023 summer season, the budget airline has not filed plans to maintain operations from either Berlin or Nuremberg to Banja Luka, as was the case this summer, indicating flights will likely not be renewed, however, changes remain possible. Overall, based on existing operations filed by the airline, Ryanair will decrease its number of flights in Banja Luka by 10.9% in 2024 compared to this year’s summer season, for a total of 1.080 flight operations.
Tickets for the new services from Zadar and Banja Luka, as well as the previously announced Zagreb, are expected to go on sale next week. All of the abovementioned routes have been added to the Global Distribution System but are yet to be displayed on the airline’s booking engine, featured on the homepage of its website. Earlier this week, Ryanair officially announced the launch of its seasonal base in Dubrovnik and the introduction of flights to Sarajevo for next year. “Ryanair is the only major European airline to significantly grow traffic post-Covid, particularly in the Balkans, where other airlines have stopped growing, are cutting routes, and reducing traffic. Next year, Ryanair will grow to eleven million annual passengers in the region, a 260% increase in traffic vs pre-Covid”, Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer, Jason McGuinness, said.
There is no stopping Ryanair.
ReplyDeleteMost of the routes ex Zad are also being extended into late October while frequencies are also increased. HAM 4x VIE and STN daily, CGN 9x, NRN 9x and many more
DeleteActually yes, the October schedule is much bigger news. Last year, STN stopped in September and it was I think 4 times weekly while this year it runs daily from 1 May to the end of the October season. That's a big increase.
DeleteSmall correction: STN is going to 8/7 …. Twice on Tuesday
DeleteLong overdue
Delete..... but start very late (except Košice).
DeleteHow is 1 June very late? Zadar is still cold and windy in April and also risky in May.
DeleteNice about new routes but pity that Banja Luka will have fewer flights than this year. Seems like the relationship with LCCs is not priority after the management change.
ReplyDeleteIt's not about management but inflation in the West which is killing gasto demand. That is why TZL, OSI, BNX, INI, OHD...are suffering
DeleteYes you are right, seems to be a trend among the smaller airports in the region.
DeleteIt could also be that LCCs are getting better deals from the larger airports now days. Also Wizz has an issue with its fleet with many of its aircraft having to do maintenance checks because of engine issues.
DeleteI was hoping Banja Luka would have gotten some new destinations in Greece or INI
DeleteBNX-ATH was considered by BNX airport officials
DeleteI hope Berlin and Hamburg will be on schedule next summer from Banja Luka
DeleteRyanair is really attacking everyone and everything in Croatia. I think now it's not only OU that is suffering but easyJet as well. They are really gonna hurt them in DBV. They are not playing around.
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DeleteOU is not suffering. They don't care.
DeleteMost probably not. There is no direct competition between easy and ryan except London and Manchester
DeleteInteresting to see that almost all of the new Zadar routes are operated by non-ZAD planes. This probably means they won't actually station another aircraft in Zadar.
ReplyDeleteAnd someone the other day expressed concern for traffic on Croatian coast for next summer...
ReplyDeleteIt was me and it was related to EW not adding a single new route to Croatia. I was wondering who will dominate next year and it will be obviously FR.
DeleteEurowings is not reliable and does not like to take risks in markets that are not high-yielding. Ryanair is unstoppable and a much better airlines to have to bring tourists to the country.
DeleteDoes this mean the Croatian guy is not longer managing their network?
DeleteEurowings is concentrating on PMI, that is what they know. While EW has been flying to ZAD from CGN for over 15 years now, they never went past 3x a week. FR has been doing so only lately and they fly it 9x a week after only a few seasons. Tells a lot about EW.
DeleteLJU still too expensive for them?
ReplyDeleteNot enough demand.
DeleteSure Osijek has more demand LOL
DeleteOsijek barely has any flights. It's a useless airport with no potential. LJU should not be compared to them.
DeleteIf OSI can have STN flights with Ryanair, then there is no reason why LJU can't.
DeleteRyanair announced that they serve the Slovenian market via Trieste, LJU is expensive for them.
DeleteOSI is desperate and the local government paid them. Traffic in LJU is recovering nicely so there isn't so much need to hand out money left and right
Delete-30% compared to 2019 is "nice recovery" LOL
DeleteGiven that they lost JP in the process I'd say it is
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DeleteFR is relatively weak in Trieste. They don't have a base there and operate only to few destinations. Plus they can't serve entire SLO market through TRS, Maribor for example is too far away. But if you speak about Gorenjska and Primorska and London only u, then I agree, they are served via Trieste
More than 10 destinations and 30 flights per week for 2024 summer season is not weak.
DeleteAnd they serve the east of Slo through Zagreb.
DeleteI stil believe they should give it a try. I believe there's a handful of routes that could work out for them.
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DeletePlease read more carefully. I did not say weak, I said relatively weak, because of the number of flights and destinations you speak, which is absolutely true, but also because in FR terms, it's not much
ReplyDeleteBefore last year Zadar did not have flights to Copenhagen, now they have SAS, Norwegian and Ryanair
Before last year...
DeleteThat’s quite impressive
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteAfter all, how did the market stack up? TZL played the role of a second Sarajevo airport, but then BNX started competing with TZL, Wizz left (almost)…
ReplyDeleteMany people from Sarajevo traveled to TZL, that's a fact. TZL and now is SJJ's second airport. I keep thinking there are too many years in the country. But the distance between SJJ and OMO is like SJJ and TZL.
DeleteAirports*
DeleteShame its only 2 weekly but better then nothing i guess...
ReplyDeleteWhat a silly comment. Zadar is a tiny town and it has flights to 50 European airports with Ryanair alone. 2 weekly flights to loads of airports is way better than Croatia Airlines' strategy of flying to one or two airports daily (and empty)
DeleteHow dare you speaking bad about Croatia Airlines, especially now when they are just about to become european aviation superpower with brand new shiny A220 fleet coming? 😅😅😅
DeleteNice for BCN and Kaunas!
ReplyDeleteYes, dear. BCN is a very cool addition indeed. Hrvatska is quite famous in Spain actually. You will see the product being sold on the street travel agencies as well.
DeleteIndeed dear
DeleteZAD in that case can reach 2 million by 2026 if it continues like this. DBV will easily reach 3 million million in 2024 and ZAG most likely 4 million in 2025.
ReplyDeleteZAG will reach 4 mil next year easily
DeleteZAG was expected to reach 3.8 to 3.9 this year but will fail short. If recession hits EU in 2024, 4 mil is not certain.
DeleteZAD continues to surprise. 2 million in 2026. is totally doable.
DeleteZAG will finish this year at around 3.65 - 3.7 million.
It means it will have added over half a million passengers this year compared to the last one with quite a moderate growth rate.
Taking that into account and barring really large, global market disturbances, ZAG will easily reach/surpass 4 million next year and 4.5 million in 2025. with even more moderate growth than this year.
We should be approaching the contractual deadline the operator has to start upgrading the Zagreb airport. Its current max. capacity is 5.5 mill. but I'm not sure whether they need to start the upgrade in the year they expect the traffic to reach 5 or 5.5 million.
If it's the former, they might have to start the upgrade in 2026. already. If it's the latter then 2027. is likely.
Is this the first Kaunas (Lithuania) - Zadar route ever?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. Cork and Kaunas are the last two destinations that were already on the program for summer 2020. When covid came and Ryanair didn't expand significantly until 2022, the two of them were no longer there. It's nice that the Baltics are now being served for the first time.
DeleteFR had scheduled Riga, too. Got caceled due to Covid.
DeleteAnd TLS
DeleteTrue…. I forgot Riga. I confused Bordeaux with Toulouse
DeleteSamo se u Nišu ništa ne dešava :(
ReplyDeleteDešava se neki problem sa vidom kako mi se čini. Jedino u Nišu ne vide kako se muče u Osijeku, Tuzli, Ohridu i drugim malim aerodromima.
DeleteBNX cant have more routes than it has nowdays because airport needs to be expanded. They reached there maximum. Terminal need to be expanded as soon as possible otherwise BNX wont be growing.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. They will need to stabilize the business, followed by a better strategic plan for development. Focusing on airport expansion and improvement is crucial, as it is already beyond their current capacities.
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ReplyDeleteTravellers becoming more and more conservative nowadays and dont want to explore anymore newer exotic destinations.
So its same old, old Croatia as usual. But dare them to visit Macedonia,Kosovo.
Oh my goodness bad, bad countries!
I owned a travel agency for forty years. End of the 1980s and beginning of 1990s China, India, even Russia became interesting for people seeking something exotic.
But nowadays interest in something exotic is dead.
I blame it on politics and xenophobia.
Maybe it is better like this .
DeleteCroatia already is victim of mass tourism .
In summer you barely can hear Croatian on the street in Dalmatia ..
How can it be a victim of mass tourism when all CRO airports combined have less than half of traffic Palma de Mallorca (PMI) airport has, or several times less than what Barcelona BCN has?
Delete18:08, with all respect but it is not Croatia's fault of having a lot to see and do and not only beaches. Croatia has very good geography as well because it is close to Western Europe and has many important ports and airports, especially given its small population.
DeleteWhat do North Macedonia or Kosovo have? Yes, Ohrid is a beautiful town, but they have inflated the prices and it cut many flights, therefore needs incentives and paid traffic, similar to SKP to be stimulated. Neither SKP nor PRN are tourist cities for sure.
The same can be said for other countries in Europe like Luxembourg, Oslo or Wallonia. What do you have there to see and do? Just boring.
Plus, don't forget about how Albania is going to be the new hit within the next years as it is quite booming. Tirana already welcomed more than 6 million passengers by air. So, there is nothing "conservative".
Also, "exotic" is now someone from the Balkans exploring places like Maldives, Canary Islands, Zanzibar, etc. Ohrid or Kosovo are no longer exotic. Maybe in the 80s....
I remember Croatia in the eighties when it still was Yugoslavia.
DeleteFull of tourists from everywhere in Europe. Germans everywhere.
But it still felt Yugo.
Today its totally different feeling.
Dalmatia and Mallorca are so popular because contact with natives is practically zero.
And the german owner of our restaurant said to me that all his waiters and staff are from Northern Macedonia.
Thats okay for me.
DeleteI see Croats in Germany all the day.
If i want to get rid of them for a week or two i fly to Dalmatia..
2 things:
Delete1) one major reason why Croatia is popular because their main attraction is clear and beautifull Sea. Our human bodies are 80% water and our planet is Blue planet. Technicaly is should be called Blue Planet and not Earth. People are attracted to sea by default.
2) Macedonia and Kosovo are exotic but the global Tourism agencies are cartel on global scale and set the definition of exotic for tourist destinations hence popularity of tourist spots that are promoted through travel wholesalers.
Exactly Boris.
DeletePeople come to Croatia for the sea not the country and its people.
And those who come to indulge in people and local culture they get the whole experience much more authentic in Bosnia, Serbia etc..
Totally disagree with 22:27. Croatia, similar to all the Balkan region is full of historical sites as well and not all about the sea and islands. You also have the national parks, architecture, wine tasting, etc, etc. Highly doubt that 19,8 million tourists in 2023 only went to the beach. At least those are the official figures of the government.
Deletehttps://mint.gov.hr/news-11455/croatia-records-nearly-20m-tourist-arrivals-in-jan-oct-2023/23630
With ZAD, DBV and ZAG expanding and all having new FR routes, this number might reach 25 million in 2024.
Ancient Roman heritage, Venetian and Italian heritage, nature, sea, geography... What's authentic Croatian over there?!
DeletePeople
Delete@anon 18:31 Mallorca is an island, while Barcelona is too far away to drive to for most of the European tourists.
DeleteCroatia on the other hand is easily reachable by means other than flying.
Also just like Spain or Greece or Italy, Croatia has hotspots which feel and suffer from mass tourism. Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Venice, Mykonos, Santorini, Dubrovnik and basically most of Dalmatia, even Istria and Kvarner as of late, all have the same issues.
Dubrovnik literally had to introduce quotas for how many tourists can enter the old town at any given moment...and the final push came when it was threatened with losing the UNESCO World Heritage Site position.
@06.54
DeleteBascanska Ploca, Island of Krk, first written glagolitic document mentioning Croatia and the King of Croatia, dated 11th century. There are much much more, in Sibenik, Knin, Istra.... You base your opinion on prejudices, but I don't blame you, anti - croatian propaganda where you live is still strong
Antikroatische Propaganda in Deutschland???
DeleteZeit aufzuwachen mein guter Pozdrav iz Rijeke.
Na ja, in vielen Auslandergemeindschaften in Deutschland gibt es viel Antikroatische Propaganda. Und leider fur Sie, bin ich ganz und sehr wach. Glaube Sie schaffen was ich geschrieben habe zu verstehen, mit Google translate hilfe, selbstverstandlich
DeleteIf tourists stay with local hosts in their apartments in Croatia they will experiance authentic culture but if they stay in hotels bought by faceless and souless foreign funds then authentic experiance would be significantly reduced.
ReplyDeleteProblem with modern tourism are the masses that come all at same time and resembles more like trip to Disneyland in the high season.
Very true, Boris. Still, tourists do have a choice and an increasing number of them do want an authentic experience.
DeleteOf course, even the authentic experience depends on the price you pay but honestly, staying at an Airbnb run by the locals, who prepare you a local home cooked meal or a barbecue, does feel more authentic, rather than eating oysters and drinking cocktails at what's essentially a yacht drive-in at Pakleni Otoci, setting you back by at least €200 for a light meal, or likewise eating truffles at a Marriott.
Media outlets in Bosnia come up with the news that BNX is getting new route to BCN. Not sure if they misinterpreted this info, or this is also possible plan for Ryanair 👀
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