NEWS FLASH
Flydubai handled 45.523 passengers on its Zagreb flights during the first half of the year, representing an increase of 22.1% on the same period in 2024, or an additional 8.243 travellers. Its average cabin load factor over the six-month period stood at 75.8%. Overall capacity grew 8.6% year-over-year, or by 4.775 seats. Figures on the route are still 15% below pre-pandemic levels when Emirates maintained operations for part of the year with its Boeing 777 aircraft. Flydubai is now on course to overtake its Gulf rival Qatar Airways on its respective Zagreb service from Doha for the first time.
Good to see. QR has really dropped the ball with its decreasing frequencies.
ReplyDeleteI think Turkish and flydubai are winning because they have more P2P demand which allows them to increase frequencies which then brings even more transfer traffic to them.
DeleteQR is decreasing because of major fleet shortage, especially of single isle planes.
DeleteQR only has itself to blame.
DeleteEK come back
ReplyDeleteLooks unlikely
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/06/emirates-no-plans-for-zagreb-or.html
How come? All passengers were Slovenes and now they fly to Ljubljana too. We were even reassured here they would cancel ZAG completely after starting LJU. But now more flights, more passengers and bigger growth in ZAG. Must be mistake.
ReplyDeleteYour mistake is taking seriously what people write in the comments. Mind you, the market also grows through time. So while there could have been a portion of Slovenian passengers using these flights in the past, they may have been replaced by immigrants from southern Asia that are arriving in record numbers to work in Croatia. In fact I have seen many of these on the Flydubai flights to Zagreb.
DeleteI am not taking seriously what those from Slovenia wrote. I was telling they were wrong at that time, and this article confirms they were wrong. And I just commented on it with a bit of sarcasm.
DeleteAnd both Slovenes and Croatians, as well as India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Filipini workers never made more than 20 % of DXB flight. Vas majority were and still are, tourists from China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand... If you flew EK or FZ to ZAG you could have seen it too
DeleteVast majority
DeleteAnonymous13:20 - yet zagreb is still under 2019 numbers on Dubai route ...
DeleteGee...wonder why they mentioned the Emirates and their Boeing 777s when writing about the route being 15% behind 2019.
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
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