Croatia Airlines has revised its network for the upcoming 2026 summer season this week, discontinuing a third seasonal service from Split, following the previously announced suspensions of Bucharest and Amsterdam. The airline will no longer operate flights between Croatia’s second-largest city and Skopje. The route had been scheduled to run twice per week from May 8 until October 9, with a total of 45 flights planned throughout the season. The carrier had intended to deploy its Dash 8 Q400 aircraft on all services. Croatia Airlines will, however, continue to maintain operations to the Macedonian capital from Zagreb, with nine weekly flights scheduled, unchanged from last year.
In its latest network revision, Croatia Airlines also plans to reduce frequencies on several other services this summer. Flights between Rijeka and Munich will operate twice instead of three times per week, while services from Osijek to the German city will likewise be reduced from three to two weekly rotations. In addition, flights between Split and Osijek will be cut from two weekly services to just one. Despite these adjustments, Croatia Airlines will still operate more flights and offer greater capacity than during the previous summer season. The carrier now has some 18.494 scheduled flights planned between March 29 and October 24, representing a 4.4% increase year-on-year, while seat capacity is set to grow by 6.5% to approximately 2.3 million.
This marks Croatia Airlines’ third attempt at serving Skopje from Split. The airline initially operated the route on a seasonal basis during the summers of 2006 and 2007, deploying the Airbus A319 aircraft. Eight years later, in 2015, the carrier made another attempt to link the two cities, operating the service only in June and July with the Dash 8 turboprop. The most recent three-year run on the route marked its longest period of continuous operations between Split and the Macedonian capital.
Not suprising really.
ReplyDeleteWell considering Split and Dubrovnik how expensive they became the last few years this is not a surprise for me at all.. even reacher european people avoiding croatian coast
DeleteThey didn't "become" expensive because of some random reason, they're expensive because they're full. The public transport is full, the hotels and apartments are full, the beaches are full, the restaurants are full. So your comment makes no sense. If people really were staying away then prices wouldn't be rising so rapidly.
DeleteReacher has money for this even on his army pension.
Delete^ not sure what that means. For the average North Macedonian Croatia is expensive, but then again people often go by car.
DeleteThey were pretty full, yes. But will they continue to be is a bigger question?
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DeleteThat's utter nonsense. With 5000km sea coast and only 20mil tourists, Croatia can not be "full". It can only have poor capacities in accommodations, hotels, resorts, restaurants, public transport, shops, roads, beaches, which is actually the case. Small Albania with 400 km of coast have 10 mil tourists.
We don't need more.
DeleteAnyway this route was summer seasonal , so this would be the last season of operating as I understand well, they will not operate 2027 summer ?
ReplyDeleteRead the article
DeleteWhat are you talking about? Thry are not going to operate it this year. Tickets were on sale until just a few days ago. Now they are not.
DeleteThats what I am saying I saw tickets on sale couple days ago ... now I realise it is suspended from this season, I wonder what was the LF...
DeleteSo they now have more discontinued than new routes this year.
ReplyDeleteAdmin do you have info about 2025 how much passengers OU handled on this route , and possible LF % ?? Thank you in advance🤗
ReplyDeleteClueless Bajić has been shocked that an A220 is more difficult to fill than a Dash. How absolutely useless is the Croatia Airlines management?
ReplyDeleteSeems someone told them to slow down making losses
DeleteAll Airlines will be making cuts in 2026. It is going to be a tough season all over the world with high oil prices.
ReplyDelete16 new routes from Belgrade this year and 9 of these of JU.
DeleteGreetings from BEG.
No, you will just have to pay more for tickets.
DeleteHardly: “More than 25 new routes have been announced for the summer 2026 season across Spanish airports, representing a notable expansion compared with the 2025 schedule.”
DeleteGreece:
DeleteRyanair alone announced 74 new routes to Greece as part of its biggest ever summer schedule in the country.
Because multiple airlines are expanding simultaneously (Ryanair, Jet2, Wizz Air, easyJet, Aegean, etc.), the total number of new routes involving Greek airports easily exceeds 100 when aggregated across carriers.
Well, this toute could have worked with a smaller turbo-prop route as a summer seasonal. Simply not enough demand for filling 130-140 seats, even with all the Macedonian seasonal workers.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Croatia Airlines is reducing frequencies on many routes indicates that choosing an all A220 fleet, wasn’t the best choice.
What an amazing turnaround strategy.
ReplyDelete2 new routes and how Many discontinued so far?
ReplyDelete3 so far
DeleteNot surprising at all. Croatia Airlines keeps cutting smaller regional routes while claiming capacity growth. If they really wanted to build connectivity in the region, routes like Split–Skopje should have been given more time to mature.
ReplyDeleteThe real issue is that Croatia Airlines still doesn’t know what it wants to be. A network carrier for the region or just a feeder airline for Lufthansa Group?
ReplyDeleteI flew from Zagreb to Sarajevo the other day with OU - there were a total of 10 passengers aboard the Dash-8 400 plane! Not sure how that route works in general, but that was crazy. I cannot imagine the loss with the A220.
ReplyDeleteIt used to work well when Sarajevo had few connections of its own. I remember using it when 60/70% of passengers would transit on from Zagreb.
DeleteFinally Wizzair can step up on this route
ReplyDeleteAs if they could not have launched this service before.
DeleteWould be a hard push to fill an a321 even twice a week. Its more of a charter airline type routing.
Deleteah the high density expert ... as if Split and Croatia are known for charter tourism ...
Deletethey just announced Palermo and Alghero
DeleteSplit–Skopje always seemed like a niche route but also one that could work with proper marketing. Tourism flows between the two countries are growing, so it’s disappointing they are abandoning it again.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I’m surprised Split–Skopje lasted three seasons.
ReplyDeleteSo they are getting money to fly Split-Osijek but they cut frequencies. Great.
ReplyDeleteYes. They grt money to fly 1pw on that route, so second rotation was on them. Knowledge first, tuan commenting.
DeleteCan't wait for them to discontinue ZAG-SKP.
ReplyDeleteFollowers and fellow aviation experts it's Jasmin here for a quick update. We are in for a bad year with the Middle East problems and the price of fuel only going one way. I cannot sugar coat this, but we will be needing cash to stay alive. My governmental friends continually look for loopholes to supply cash so we can still have nice jobs and with a little luck the PSO will be worth many more millions as every little helps. We are still looking at what routes we can cut this summer as we are a very small fish in Croatian tourism. Our top priority remains flying our patriots safely to Frankfurt and more especially Munich.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend everyone
Best
Jasmin B