Low cost carrier Ryanair handled over 1.3 million passengers at its Zagreb base last year. Data from the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, shows that Ryanair has been a major driving force behind the airport's strong passenger performance in 2024, maintaining a total of thirty destinations over the summer peak. The average cabin load factor across its Zagreb network stood at 87%. London Stansted maintained its position as the busiest route, while Dublin had the highest average annual cabin occupancy rate, amounting to 95.4%. It was followed by Girona and Palma de Mallorca, both of which were launched last year. The table below, provided by Eurostat, indicates passenger numbers for 26 of the thirty Ryanair destinations from the Croatian capital.
During 2024, Ryanair commenced five new routes out of Zagreb, most of which performed strongly. Palma de Mallorca, Alicante and Girona had some of the highest average loads in the airline’s network from the Croatian capital. A notable exception was Pisa, which, with 20.021 passengers, had the lowest load factor amounting to 69.5%, which is considered a soft figure by budget carrier standards. This coming Sunday, the airline will introduce another destination in Italy - Palermo. Ryanair will also increase frequencies on a number of routes over the coming months, with an emphasis on its April operations due to the Easter holidays. As a result, it will become the largest carrier by available seat capacity at Zagreb Airport for the first time next month.
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Routes with 85% lf are viable without subsidies, they just don't launch them without subsidies because there's markets where they can get 95% without them
There's a massive investment in to Slovenian Railways, and 2nd track on route Maribor to Graz is being added, this will speed up the service to Graz and Vienna, eventually train journey will be cut down to 3h. Trainline to Zagreb is also being modernized and speeds on the line will be increased to 120kmph from current 90-100kmph. On Croatian side line has been upgraded already to 160 kmph, and travel time for intercity trains cut down to 20 min from the border with Slovenia to Zagreb. Once this is done, no doubt more Slovenians will opt to for Zagreb airport, but atm, you need to drive 2h from Ljubljana to Zagreb and then find a parking place for your car. Not ideal atm.
We plan on carrying over ten million passengers in cooperation with Zagreb Airport over the next five to six years”, the company’s Group CEO, Michael O'Leary, said
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2021/12/ryanair-begins-latest-zagreb-expansion.html
"The airport should be handling 3.5 million passengers next year, six million in 2023 and over seven million travellers in 2024"
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2021/09/ryanair-to-unveil-zagreb-expansion-today.html
You are correct. There are 70 % Slovenes on FR flights in Zagreb. That's why they don't fly to Ljubljana I guess. Also we were getting the same BS probably from the same poster when flydubai was starting LJU, we were told here now flydubai will quit and leave Zagreb because 70 % on Zagreb flydubai passengers were Slovene (imagine, with all Japanese and Koreans around), and today we have more capacity and more passengers to DXB from Zagreb than from Ljubljana. And absolutely no one in same mind will deny that there are Slovenians in ZAG, which is good, but malomeščani with 70 % complexes is something just to laugh about
Based on my quick google check
Take note that that "business model" takes from both origin and destination airport.
You go digging for old exaggerated PR statements. Yeah, sure...a perfectly normal reaction.
You're not a troll, bitter for some reason, at all. Okay.
Regardless of how funny your reaction is, it is even more so interesting - the mystery of what makes people like you tick.