Croatia Airlines has finalised the rollout schedule for the ATR72-600 turboprop aircraft it will wet-lease from ETF Airways and has further revised frequencies on select services this summer. The aircraft is set to debut on the flag carrier’s behalf on Wednesday, April 15, on the morning service between Zagreb and Munich, which is currently scheduled as its only flight of the day. On April 16, the aircraft will also be deployed on services from Zagreb to Munich, Pula and Split, as well as on routes between Pula and Zadar and Split and Osijek. Overall, the ATR72 is expected to operate between six and nine flights per day for the Croatian carrier.
As previously reported, the 70-seat aircraft will be deployed across Croatia Airlines’ domestic network, as well as on services from Zagreb to Sarajevo and Munich, from Osijek and Rijeka to Munich, and between Dubrovnik and Rome. It will be most heavily utilised on the Zagreb - Munich service, followed by Zagreb - Pula/Zadar, Osijek - Munich, Rijeka - Munich and Zagreb - Sarajevo. Overall, the aircraft is scheduled to operate 1.396 flights on behalf of Croatia Airlines until the end of the 2026 summer season on October 24, providing a total of 97.720 seats to the market.
During the week, Croatia Airlines has again revised frequencies across its network. During May, the carrier has removed one weekly flight on its service between Split and Istanbul, for a total of three weekly, as well as one weekly flight from Split to Prague, reducing it to one weekly, and from Zagreb to Brač, also down to one weekly until mid-May. In June, cuts will include a reduction of a weekly service between Zagreb and Skopje, for a total of eight weekly, from Split to Istanbul, for a total of four weekly, and Dubrovnik to Munich, for a total of one weekly. The latter two routes will see the same reductions in July, August, September and October. September and October will also see the continuation of a reduced schedule from Zagreb to Skopje. These adjustments to the network are in addition to the previously reported changes.
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The ATR looks nice in OU's livery
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DeleteDid they also had ATR before or this is first time? They had dash 8 but no Atr right ?
DeleteThey had ATR42s in the 1990s and 2000s until.they were replaced by Dash 8s in 2008/09
DeleteCroatia Airlines livery looks perfect on ATR 72, what a shame they haven't taken earlier atr 72
DeleteWhat's up with them constantly reducing SKP and SJJ?
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Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2025/09/croatia-airlines-sarajevo-performance.html
That does explain a lot
DeleteSKP and SJJ should be served with smaller plane, exactly how JU doing. You cannot sending A220 for a flights that are 1 hour long. ATR are exactly how regional short routes should be covered.
DeleteMark my words, soon enough SKP and SJJ will have less than daily flights by OU. Especially if W6 keeps growing on SKP-LJU.
DeleteMaybe wizz will start skopje - zagreb
DeleteMaybe maybe maybe
DeleteFirst they bring forward SPU-IST and then they cut it
ReplyDeleteWar happened and demand probably fell.
DeleteWizzair's increase in frequencies between LJU and SKP has definitely contributed to an even lower demand between ZAG and SKP with OU, thus them reducing it even more. Does anyone remember what were the frequencies like at it's highest?
ReplyDeleteIt was 12 weekly.in summer 2019
DeleteFrom 2019 there is alot differences. SKP has now more options for connection , plus W6 to LJU doing its job.
Delete@09:09 exactly.
DeleteI dont get it , they keep reducing SKP but still deploying A220 ,whats the logic ? :D are they planning to deploy ATR to SKP on those cut periods ??
ReplyDeleteThere are no ATRs planned for Skopje. It says in the article which routes it will be used on.
DeleteYes I read the article and its so confusing to me. If there is no demand , plus cutting why still sending A220 and no ATR ? Is there any reasonable reason for this?
DeleteThey have a single ATR. They are sending it on routes which probably perform worse than SKP. They said before that when they get more wet lease planes it will be sent to regional destinations but there is only so much you can do with one.
DeleteNotabl3 cuts for them overall in Split. Several discontinued routes and frequency cuts. Why?
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DeleteLow demand
DeleteOU going to 2 types of aircrafts, not bad.
ReplyDeleteI have a question, but please do not laugh at it. Why, for example, does Croatia Airlines not apply for subsidies in Slovenia on the route between Prague and Ljubljana? So the route would be something like this: Split - Prague - Ljubljana - Prague - Split. We would get subsidies from two countries.
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DeleteThere are many other untapped destinations in LJU OU could benefit from. But that means the carrier should have some strategy, some understanding of the passenger flows (cultural, diaspora, business, etc.) and should be less influenced by ex JP people. Not
DeletePossible.
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DeleteI was also thinking about the possibility that the State of Slovenia could enter Croatia Airlines (as a partial buyer) and we would have, for example, one plane that would belong to Croatia but Slovenia could benefit from it as the State of Croatia.
Anon@13:41 no, that wasnt my idea (@13:10). Why would Slovenia enter into a carrier which management is even poorer than JP’s? That would be the most stupid step ever. And this idea has been circulating since 2021, sponsored by Bostjancic and his ex JP team in OU. And thats one of the reasons why a project of JP2.0 failed.
DeleteNo, of course not, I meant that I wanted to see how you would react. It is sad that Slovenia cannot get candidates for priority lines, which could be solved with the (option) presented above.
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DeleteWhy is Croatia Airlines not profitable? Because within 30 minutes to 1 hour it has 3 flights to Split. And in exactly the same order back to Zagreb.
That Belgrade will be better connected to Brač tells us alot about OU. Also ATR to munich from Zagreb also screams poor performance on a key route that a certain Rijeka resident would describe as being shameful. Which in this case is perhaps apt.
ReplyDeleteMy opinion is that Croatia Airlines would need a maximum of 10 A220 aircraft, and if possible, they should change their order to 2-5 ATR. Officially, they only have 6 A220s (Jasmin said). So they should at least try to change part of it or lease the A220 to one of the European carriers.
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Delete6 of their own planes, which they bought themselves and are not under any lease
Not true
DeleteAs already confirmed and verified by both the airline and lessors, all A220s are leased. Six are on financial lease from Air Lease Corporation, three are from Azorra and six from Griffin.
DeleteI apologize, I came across somewhere that Mr. Jasmin said they have 6 of them (because they transferred the money at the beginning of the 2010s, I believe back then for the A320 if I'm not mistaken) and that the other nine are leased.
DeleteI am in absolute shock regarding MUC. Is demand that low? Is LH pushing them out? I always thought they could at least fill an A319/A220.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are W-routes from ZAG? So the plane goes ZAG-MUC-RJK-MUC-ZAG. So they will have to start from ZAG as that is the base of the aircraft.
DeleteYes, most ATR flights to Munich are W patterns.
DeleteLufthansa sends A320s and A321s overnight to Zagreb from Munich so Croatia Airlines doesn't get a lot of passengers on the morning flight because Lufthansa takes them all
DeleteI flew ZAG-MUC LH A321 full up to the last seat. It's not about low demand, It's about bad management
DeleteOU is slowly but steadily becoming a joke of an airline.
ReplyDeleteSlowly! It's been one for 30 years
Delete@Admin, what is happening with Seoul - Zagreb flights? Since yesterday many flights have been marked as "sold out". Are they really sold out or just cancelled and zeroed out?
ReplyDeleteThey are most likely sold out. Many Korean travellers fly via Dubai and Doha to Zagreb. Due to flight cancellations, the nonstop service will see an increase in demand.
DeleteBut all flights on Tuesdays and whole October are marked as sold out. Quite strange pattern.
DeleteI think Turkish will also benefit, yesterday my flight had around 15-20 Koreans to Zagreb
DeleteOctober was the busiest month for Seoul-Zagreb
Delete"ATR72 is expected to operate between six and nine flights per day for the Croatian carrier." - it will be AMAZING to see how will OU cope with passengers when it's ONE AT7 goes tech and those 6 to 9 flights get cancelled, especially during summer rush.
ReplyDeleteEasy. They will replace it with an A220 and fly half-empty. They do this already now when a Dash malfunctions.
DeleteThe A220s are not used a lot even in peak summer so there will always be spare capacity