Low cost carrier Ryanair will launch a new seasonal service between Dubrovnik and Budapest this summer, marking the second new route to be introduced by the airline from the coastal city. The service will commence on June 2 and operate three times per week until September 29, with frequencies reduced to two weekly in September. It will deploy a mix of Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 jets. The carrier has also previously scheduled a new route between Gdansk and Dubrovnik. Both will commence just days before its rival Wizz Air introduces the same two new routes.
Flights between Dubrovnik and the Hungarian capital were last operated by LOT Polish Airlines, which maintained weekly services for three months during the coronavirus pandemic, from July to September 2020. Further flight details can be found here.
Ryanair has so far scheduled modest growth across the former Yugoslavia for the upcoming summer season, with Dubrovnik emerging as the primary driver of expansion. The low cost carrier plans to add between fourteen and seventeen additional weekly departures from its base at the coastal airport, translating into nearly 6.600 extra seats per week during peak months.
At the height of the summer season in June, July and August, Ryanair will introduce two additional weekly rotations to Charleroi, Rome and Manchester. Frequencies will also increase by one weekly service to Krakow, Poznan, London Stansted, Sandefjord, Vienna and Wroclaw. These enhancements come on top of the announced new routes to Gdansk and Budapest. Two of the three weekly flights on the latter will be operated by Budapest-based aircraft, while one by its jet based in Dubrovnik.
Bravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteThere sure is a lot of demand for BUD - DUB segment however not for both airlines.
ReplyDeleteTrue though Dublin has those caps which limit future growth. Both Ryanair and Aer Lingus have complained.
Delete@9.10 me and you both know exactly what he meant. Next time, maybe take this as a chance to educate him and not try to make a fool out of him. @9.02, DUB is an aiport code for Dublin airport, if you want to talk about Dubrovnik, use DBV.
DeleteGood to see new route. Still surprised to see how passive Ryanair is this year thoufh.
ReplyDeleteInstead of adding existing routes they could have add routes that are not covered. They just try to eliminate each other. Typical aggressive attitude of Ryanair and Wizz. I just don't like the business model of these two airlines.
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DeleteAnd you think FR wouldn't add flights to a new market if there is enough demand? They obviously feel that what they added for this year is enough. DBV isn't exactly a large market especially compared to other holiday airports around Europe.
DeleteYes, I think that they don't make decisions based only on demand or potential. Such companies like to eliminate their competition completely, so they can make the rules at the airport. Look at Zagreb. Ryanair as the biggest LCC pay very little money to the airport. They pay so little that some airports kicked them out.
DeleteCompetition between Ryanair and Wizz Air in Dubrovnik is heating up. A few years ago Dubrovnik was all about legacy carriers and charters. Now it’s turning into an mini LCC battleground.
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ReplyDeleteBudapest has been underserved from the Adriatic coast for years. Surprised it took this long for LCCs to properly enter the market.
ReplyDeleteAny new route is good news
ReplyDeleteWizz should try Dubrovnik-Ljubljana
ReplyDeleteFriday, Sunday flights to begin with, add Wednesday in August and you are good to go
Would definitely work, but they don't have planes based in either of the cities.
Delete@10:21 They don't have in Memmingen, Dortmund or Basel/Mulhouse either, but they still manage to have a lot of routes from those airports to other airports, where they also don't have any based aircraft. I could see Wizz Air doing W-flights through LJU in the future, with DBV and SJJ being some of the routes.
DeleteFor sure, I would love to see all of those. But Wizz has sadly been very reluctant to launch anything meaningful from LJU. I see them launching OTP first cause the numbers are there (one of the biggest unserved routes). DBV is probably not even on that list, but it would for sure work, I think there is enough Slovenes who visit Dalmatia every year and would love to fly for an hour rather that needing to drive for 10. easyJet with EDI has shown (from what we know the sales are good so far), that even the routes which are not among the top unserved, can be successful. Hopefully other airlines take not of that.
DeleteI think both AirBaltic and Easyjet are showcasing that even if the route from Ljubljana isn't showing as top unserved, they can work. Look at Riga, EDI and Man to some extent
DeleteYeah, MAN has got some ways to go but I agree. I just wish that airlines were a bit more proactive with this, or even better, the airport. From what I've heard, they are really only doing the bare minimum there. But that's probably obvious.
DeleteArticle is about Dubrovnik. Not Ljubljana. You had a whole topic on Ljubljana yesterday but you discuss potential routes from Ljubljana on a topic about Dubrovnik. What's the logic?
DeleteWe are discussing a intra exyu route, in an exyu aviation blog. Not sure how that's problematic
DeleteYou are discussing intra- exyu routes with suggestions of flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest? Where were you yesterday? Really disrespectful.
DeleteI don't think we are disrespecting anyone here. We are only using one comment and replying to it to discuss about this, sicer there are very limited channels to talk about this. We are of course very happy about the Ryanair's new introduction as well, every new route is a win for the passengers after all. If we are by any chance disrespecting anyone here, the admin can easily delete the comments and I will respect that.
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