NEWS FLASH
Croatia Airlines in its preliminary timetable for the 2026 summer season plans to halve its seasonal operations between Dubrovnik and Munich. The carrier has scheduled two weekly flights between the two cities, down from four weekly the previous summer. Flights are scheduled to be operated with the Airbus A319 aircraft, as was the case the previous summer, which also saw the A220 on select dates. Services resume on May 10. As previously reported, the Croatian flag carrier recently scheduled the launch of two weekly flights between Dubrovnik and Stuttgart for next summer, a new destination in its network. Further changes to the timetable remain possible.
Always the same with OU. Introducing something new means they cut somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing positive to say about OU management but your comment makes no sense because every airline operates like that. How else are they supposed to optimise their network?
DeleteThey have a surplus of aircraft. They can open a new route without discontinuing or reducing something else. They don't have to constantly be at 20 international destinations.
DeleteIn the summer they have no surplus.
DeleteYou should check their fleet utilisation. Without doubt one of the lowest in Europe among flag carriers.
DeleteMaybe you should check it. Their nighttime utilisation is very low but in daytime the fleet is busy all day every day. Last summer was a bit of an exception with A220 deliveries.
DeleteMutti LH will be furious
ReplyDeleteLufthansa is what killed them on this route. I flew Dubrovnik-Munich last summer on a packed A321 and the ticket was cheaper than Croatia Airlines' A319 which probably flew empty.
DeleteFurious, why? Example: Imagine Air Montenegro swapping 2 flights to Belgrade to new service to Niš, you think JU would be furious? Or happy? :)
DeleteNot sure how much Lufti killed them on this route. I would actually not be wondering if they cut flights too. Last year I flew with Lufti MUC-DBV in July and the load factor was cxa. 60-65%. This year same route on 24.10. again with Lufti and the load factor was 30-35%. Probably Germans are just not that much interested in Dubrovnik. I never hear many Germans in Dubrovnik.
DeleteThey act like they have very limited capacity so they have to swap the flights instead of actually expanding. And I would argue they'll have better loads to Stuttgart than to Munich, despite the competition, but we'll see.
ReplyDeleteIf they can't succeed at flying German tourists to the Croatian coast, they will not succeed at anything!
ReplyDeleteWe will never know that cause OU doesn't have usual competitors relations with German airlines, namely Lufthansa, so we never know if their operations are part of some deal, independent decission or something else...
DeleteWhat is very worrying is that it seems there will be no new routes from Zagreb next summer by OU. They now officially published the new routes that ex-Yu wrote about over the weekend and presented it as its finalised summer timetable.
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