Croatia Airlines touches down in Hamburg

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Croatia Airlines inaugurated its first of five new seasonal routes this summer by introducing flights between Zagreb and Hamburg. Services will be maintained three times per week, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with a mix of Airbus A220-300 and Airbus A319 aircraft. The service will conclude for the year on October 24. Up until now, Hamburg has been within the top ten busiest unserved routes from Zagreb Airport. Croatia Airlines last served Hamburg in 2012, though the route was maintained from Split. Zagreb was later connected to the German city by Eurowings in 2019. 

Commenting on the new service, Croatia Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer, Slaven Žabo, said, “With our new seasonal connection between Hamburg and Zagreb, we are expanding the travel options for our passengers and creating an even better connection between Germany and Croatia. The new route from Hamburg complements our existing flights from Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, and Düsseldorf to various Croatian destinations. The flights on the new route will be operated by Croatia Airlines' modern Airbus A220 aircraft, which will replace our existing fleet and offer an excellent flight experience for both our guests and crew". Dirk Behrens, Head of Aviation at Hamburg Airport, added, “We are delighted to officially welcome Croatia Airlines as our new partner at Hamburg Airport today. The new connection offers our travellers an attractive, direct connection to an exciting destination in Southeast Europe and expands our flight offerings from Hamburg to the popular holiday destination of Croatia”.

There were 115 passengers onboard the first service from Hamburg to Zagreb.




Comments

  1. Anonymous13:31

    One of the only new routes that makes sense with A220

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    1. Anonymous13:52

      Hamburg, Stockholm, Brussels and Barcelona are the only ones that maybe make sense. Everything else needs an A320 or an Embraer.

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    2. Anonymous14:03

      Paris and Amsterdam make perfect sense, from my experience usually have a few seats left making them perfect

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    3. Anonymous14:33

      Paris and Amsterdam have multiple codeshare partners from both Star Alliance and SkyTeam airlines and need to be A320s because there are endless transfer passengers and lots of P2P too.

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    4. Anonymous14:57

      One of the only. The only is by definition one. One of is by definition multiple. So, which one is it?

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    5. Anonymous15:34

      Majority of network needs A220-300. It was a good choice for OU

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    6. Vlad15:38

      Please spare us your language pedantry, especially when you're wrong:

      https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2020/12/one-of-the-only.html

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    7. Anonymous15:59

      Absolute nonsense. Does Zagreb-Sarajevo need an A220? Does Zadar-Pula need an A220? Osijek-Dubrovnik? Zagreb-Vienna?

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    8. Anonymous19:43

      @anon 15:59 +100!

      Even OS has seen that a turboprop is needed. ATR72-600 or Dash 8 Q400 would be perfect for Sarajevo.

      Had the opportunity to fly via OU344 to Sarajevo. The only bad thing was, that the windows were dirty. :D

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    9. Anonymous19:58

      15.34
      What's the weather like today in Buzin on the 3rd floor? Are you getting prepaired for Laura?

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    10. Anonymous20:31

      Skopje service is regulary served by A220 since mid of April 2025 :D

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    11. Anonymous21:34

      Anon 19:58

      I said something wrong?

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  2. Anonymous13:36

    115 is a LF of 77% which is good for OU

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    1. Anonymous13:37

      I think HAM and MXP will be the only ones that make sense, we'll see what the OTP load will be like

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    2. Anonymous13:39

      It is indicative that there are no loads reported for ZAG-HAM.

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    3. Anonymous13:44

      Plus they cut frequencies to Milan.

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    4. Anonymous13:47

      Anon 13:39 I think loads were low because Croats in Hamburg are heading to Croatia and not vice versa

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    5. Anonymous14:34

      Milan has absolutely zero sense with an A220.

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    6. Anonymous14:51

      Tomorrow's Malpensa-Zagreb flight is scheduled to be an A319

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    7. Anonymous15:32

      Is anyone flying to Milan or Bucharest? If so can u give an estimate on loads

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    8. Anonymous19:08

      130 pax on ZAG-HAM

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    9. Anonymous20:44

      Anon 19:08 surprising that Zagreb service had more pax as it would make more sense for Croats in Hamburg to use the route now in early summet

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  3. Anonymous13:55

    Croatia Airlines management is an absolute disaster. How is it possible that Hamburg is scheduled to depart at 08:00, just 10 minutes earlier than what was needed to meet the minimum connecting time for passengers travelling from Zadar and Pula? That's Zadar-Hamburg and Pula-Hamburg passengers that will now not fly Croatia Airlines.

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    1. Anonymous14:30

      Maybe they are planing to have direct flights from Zadar and Pula to Hamburg :D

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    2. Anonymous14:34

      Ryanair and Eurowings fly from Hamburg to Zadar.

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  4. Anonymous14:31

    Bravo Hrvatska!

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