Ryanair has adjusted frequencies across its network in the former Yugoslavia for the 2026 summer season, which begins on March 29. During the peak summer period, the low cost carrier will remove six weekly departing flights from Banja Luka. The airline will cut two weekly rotations on services to Memmingen, Vienna and Baden Baden. As a result, flights to Vienna and Baden Baden will be reduced to two weekly, while Memmingen will be maintained five times per week. In Niš, Ryanair is removing two weekly flights from its network, cutting one frequency each on services to Malta and Vienna. These routes will be operated three and four times per week, respectively.
On the other hand, the carrier will expand its operations in Croatia, adding eighteen weekly departures compared to the 2025 summer season. However, its bases in Zagreb and Zadar will see a mix of growth and reductions on selected routes. In Zagreb, Ryanair will discontinue three destinations: Marseille (two weekly), Pisa (two weekly) and Hahn (three weekly). Frequencies on the Baden Baden service will be reduced from four to three weekly. Conversely, the airline will increase services to London Stansted and Malta from ten to twelve weekly, Palma de Mallorca from four to six weekly, Paphos from three to five weekly, and Dublin from five weekly to daily. Basel, Malaga and Palermo will each gain an additional weekly rotation, bringing services to daily, six weekly and four weekly, respectively. Overall, Ryanair will add a net total of six weekly departures from Zagreb during the peak summer season.
Dubrovnik will gain an additional twelve weekly Ryanair departures. The airline is adding two weekly flights on services to Manchester, Gdansk, Rome Fiumicino and Charleroi, as well as an extra weekly rotation to London Stansted (increasing to daily), Vienna, Poznan and Krakow. No reductions are planned compared to last summer.
In Zadar, Ryanair will discontinue services to Maastricht and Hamburg. The carrier will also remove one weekly frequency each on routes to Milan Malpensa, Milan Bergamo, Marseille, Cologne and Budapest. At the same time, it will add one weekly flight to Birmingham, Bologna, Beauvais, Dublin, Memmingen, Gothenburg, Hahn, Kaunas and Weeze (increasing to nine weekly), as well as to Poznan (increasing to ten weekly) and Warsaw Modlin. Operations to Bratislava will be doubled from two to four weekly. Overall, Zadar Airport will record a net gain of six weekly Ryanair departures year-on-year during the peak summer season.
In Pula, the airline will increase services to Poznan and London Stansted by one weekly flight each, bringing both routes to four weekly, while services to Charleroi will lose one weekly rotation. In Rijeka, Ryanair will discontinue its two weekly service to Vienna, with the remainder of the network to remain unchanged. Osijek will see no changes. From Split, the carrier will no longer serve Vienna and will decrease Rome Fiumicino from four to three per week.
Finally, in Podgorica, the airline will increase frequencies on its Polish routes in response to Wizz Air’s expansion in the market. Ryanair will add two weekly flights each to Wroclaw and Gdansk, while also launching a new two weekly service to Poznan. Operations to London Stansted will also be increased, rising from three to four weekly flights.
So it seems like no new routes from Ryanair next summer, just frequency increases (or reductions).
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. They add new routes all year long.
DeleteNew routes are very likely for SJJ, base or not. Frequencies will increase more than BNX has lost.
DeleteInteresting how quickly Ryanair reacts to Wizz Air in Podgorica. Competition is the only thing that gets more capacity these days.
ReplyDeleteZagreb growth looks good on paper, but losing three routes is not the best.
ReplyDeleteKolko para, tolko muzike
DeleteIf this is “expansion” it’s a very selective one. For many secondary airports, Ryanair’s footprint is quietly shrinking.
ReplyDeleteIt looks less like growth and more like Ryanair fine tuning subsidies and cost structures ahead of another strong pricing summer.
DeleteBanja Luka going backwards again
ReplyDeleteAt least they plan to install an ice cream maker in the terminal... lol it was breaking news on another site.
DeleteFR is absolutely ruling the Zagreb-London market. Up to 12 weekly. Wow
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteStansted is nowhere near central London so Ryanair is a waste of time if you need to get to London. Adding the train / bus fare will cost more than the flight. It works out much cheaper and quicker flying Croatia Airlines to London Heathrow.
DeleteJudging by the numbers, passengers are choosing Ryanair over Croatia Airlines to Heathrow.
DeleteActually, it is quicker to get to London from Stansted than from Heathrow.
DeleteStansted is the closest major airport for much of east London. The bus from Stratford only takes 45 minutes. It's also on the railway line to Cambridge.
DeleteStansted is 'norwhere' near London is such a silly observation, London is vast and where people need or want to go is very relative. Its a useful airport for many and the bus to Liverpool street isnt expensive. Very useful for East Anglia too.
DeleteCom'n people, the point was you should fly Uhljeb airlines to LHR, with so many options of 3 weekly and with stellar cardbord box business service. And shouting Bravo Hrvatska pre-, during and post- flight
Delete@09:46
DeleteIt takes me the same amount of time and money to travel to Heathrow (or Gatwick), as well to Stansted from East London, so you can try convincing yourself as much as you'd like how Stansted is a worse option.
This is the same when people said Hahn is in the middle of nowhere, when actually for such a lot of people (me included) it was just a one stop train ride plus local bus to airport
DeleteIf you're going to west London, then maybe Heathrow is faster. For all of central London, Stansted is a better option.
Delete^ LOL, no!
DeleteDubrovnik getting everything while Rijeka and Osijek get nothing is a perfect snapshot of Croatian aviation policy.
ReplyDeleteWould you spend summer holidays in Osijek?
DeleteDBV is the place everyone wants to be in summer.
DeleteWithout Ryanair some of these airports wouldn’t even have international traffic worth mentioning.
Delete09.35
DeleteDubrovnik is so congested in peak season that it's better not to be there. On the other hand, on Krk, Cres, Rab or Lošinj you can still enjoy in peace and nature and even find a small beach just for you. Why airport management and uhljebs in TZ do nothing to attract more flights and passengers, is another story
Yeah but Dubrovnik is Dubrovnik and Cres is just Cres. There's a reason why Dubrovnik is congested.
DeleteIf Osijek generated demand, it would get something. Airlines don’t ignore profitable markets.
DeleteThey were so vocal about Spanish taxes and what do we see in our region - Malaga and Palma getting upgrade, zero cancelled flights or routes :D
ReplyDeleteHypocrites.
DeleteBusinessmen.
DeleteThey weren't vocal. All the media made a big deal out of it. Ryanair did exactly what they said they would do - they cut flights from small airports and increased flights from big airports.
DeleteUntil Dodik leaves, Banja Luka airport will not progress as much as it could. The government is not interested in the airport, because they cannot "fence" there. They had the perfect opportunity to take advantage of Zwizzair's departure from Tuzla, now it is too late. Every following year there will be a drop in passengers, unfortunately. In 2-3 years, when Sarajevo and Banja Luka are connected by a highway, it will be even worse. The airport is operating in a big deficit, constantly borrowing, with no concession in sight...
ReplyDeleteHighway is good thing and work both ways
DeleteMile Ronhilu ne pakirati 🙂
DeleteRyanair expanding in Podgorica only because Wizz Air forced its hand says everything about how reactive the airline has become.
ReplyDeleteAnother sign that Ryanair is focusing more on maximising revenue per aircraft rather than chasing network breadth.
Delete^ That's what private businesses do.
DeleteWhy on earth would Ryanair even want to chase network breadth?? It's a private company that delivers profit to its shareholders.
DeleteBecause in Ryan's business model network breadth = profit. They earn beacuse of economy of scale not because they have superpremium pax. Of course, that doesn't mean they have to grow network every year in crazy numbers but they really need crazy numbers.
DeleteAll this “net growth” talk ignores the fact that many of these increases are just one extra weekly flight. Hardly transformational.
ReplyDeleteIf Ryanair wasn’t getting favourable deals, half of these routes wouldn’t exist in the first place.
DeleteOne or two weekly flights added or removed is normal network management.
Delete@0933 do you know what the word net means? Or growth? Cause it doesn't look like you do
DeleteCalling this an expansion in Zagreb is generous when three routes are axed outright.
ReplyDeleteZagreb’s net gain shows Ryanair still believes in the market, even if some weaker routes didn’t perform.
DeleteFR didn’t add a single route, although it have spare planes cutted from all over the Europe. What kind of belief is that?
DeleteFR will offer more seats in summer '26 in ZAG than they did this year.
DeleteIt really isn't difficult to understand. 🤷♂️
It is very difficult to understand if you are motivated not to understand.
Delete^ Exactly!
DeletePeople complain about cuts but Ryanair is still the airline bringing the most traffic to the region by far.
ReplyDeleteAnyway they cutting and leaves airports every day, W6 is opening at least couple routes every single day in Europe and growing massively
DeleteCutting underperforming routes and boosting strong ones is exactly what a profitable airline should be doing.
ReplyDeleteNiš and Banja Luka can’t expect unlimited growth forever. The market has to support it.
ReplyDeleteRyanair isn’t a charity. Airports need to prove demand, not just offer incentives.
DeleteThe airline adds where airports cooperate and demand exists. Simple as that.
DeleteSad that it seems not new FR routes this summer :(
ReplyDeleteThere is Poznan-Podgorica :D
DeletePeople forget how many new destinations Ryanair introduced over the past decade. Some churn is inevitable.
DeleteThere is still lots of time for new routes
DeleteCroatia continues to benefit massively from Ryanair capacity. Tourism numbers don’t lie.
ReplyDeleteTrue dat
DeleteSo ZAG still with 0 new routes in summer 2026.
ReplyDeleteSeems it potential is exhausted finally
DeleteHahahahaha. It's totally opposite. OU is not using its potential, ZAG potential, coast potential and region potential to transform ZAG into real hub. And it will happen, sooner or later.On the other hand FR is calculating and waiting for old terminal to increase traffic and add more planes to the base and more destinations to ZAG network. So your wishes will remain wishes only.
DeleteIs there a long term parking at or close to ZAG airport? What is the price per day for one week does anybody knows...thanks
DeleteThere are several parkings in nearby villages of Petina and Kosnica. They all take you to and from the airport with the car or van. Parking Petina 47 is the one I recrecommend, I use it all the time. Very professional and good prices. You can check everything and book on their website
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteWhere were you yesterday? 🤣
DeleteHe was busy counting and preparing money for delivery from Središnjica to Buzin. If it wasn't sad it would be hilarious. Welcome to modern kradeze Hrvatska with 1950's mindset!
DeleteCan we expect new routes from Sarajevo ?
ReplyDeleteConsidering the mess with their management, seems unlikely for now.
DeleteThis look decent , they have done optimisation of their network over exyu
ReplyDeleteCan't see ZAD beating this years pax numbers next year
ReplyDeleteEvery airline is trimming somewhere in 2026.
ReplyDeleteThis true. Many airlines are cautious about next year as there is a lot of economic uncertainty everywhere.
DeleteWizz looks fitest now in the growth department, but we'll see, it's Wizz...
Deletethis shows Ryanair’s commitment to keeping aircraft where they make money instead of pulling out completely.
ReplyDeleteMore flights to Stansted are great for connectivity. It’s Ryanair’s biggest and most reliable hub.
ReplyDeleteRyanair staying and reshaping is better than Ryanair leaving entirely, which has happened elsewhere in Europe.
ReplyDeleteRyanair cutting routes and leaving airports across Europe, on other hand Wizz air is adding new routes every single day and growing rapidly :D
ReplyDeleteFor the past 2 years, Wizz Air has been cutting routes and leaving airports across Europe.
DeleteOfc Banja Luka has to get reduced as flying from there cannibalizes on their Zagreb routes.
ReplyDeleteThe big question is if Wizzair will replace Ryanair.
Seems like a logical choice but some airlines are still unpredictable...