Zagreb Airport ends 60-month growth streak

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Zagreb Airport handled 415.218 passengers in April, representing a decrease of 1.1% on the same month in 2025, ending five consecutive years of passenger growth. The figure is in line with an expected decline in overall scheduled seat capacity reported recently, with May capacity levels currently up 0.4% on 2025 levels. Several carriers reduced capacity in April when compared to last year, including Ryanair, which had fourteen fewer flights, as well as Qatar Airways (temporarily suspended), Flydubai, Eurowings, Austrian Airlines, KLM (despite more flights), Air Serbia, LOT Polish Airlines and Turkish Airlines. During the January - April period, Zagreb Airport welcomed 1.332.694 travellers through its doors, representing an increase of 4.4% or an additional 56.053 passengers.


Zagreb's largest airlines by scheduled seat capacity, April 2026


Comments

  1. Anonymous10:31

    Will this be the first month since the collapse of Adria where Lju will have growth while Zagreb won't?

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  2. Anonymous10:40

    So does that mean airlines will have to have a 95% LF in May in order for the airport to avoid a decline?

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    1. Anonymous10:50

      How did you come up with that figure?

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    2. Anonymous11:00

      Well because they'll need a high LF to avoid a decline. Then there are OU routes with a catastrophic LF.

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    3. Anonymous22:18

      So in essence FR must have a 125% LF in order to cover the modest 60% LF of OU based on your calculations...

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  3. Anonymous11:14

    OUI largest operater in ZAG. And still not good for someone, or just for one

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    1. Anonymous11:30

      That’s exact reason for passengers decline

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    2. Anonymous11:52

      OU is NOT the largest operator. Ryanair carries more passengers.

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    3. PIR13:24

      There is JUST ONE Party soldier here who advocates crime, corruption and incompetence in OU. And the one he points at, and he is obsessed with, is exactly the one who wish for OU to be bigger, better, more competitive, market oriented, market responsive, with adequate fleet and developed network, and profitable, or at least not loss making. But, Party soldier is happy with losses making midget and shameful feeder, and dares talking with attitude about others, especially the one, who are aware of how disastrous OU is, and who criticize it.

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  4. Anonymous11:36

    SJJ, ZAG...which is next?

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    1. Anonymous11:38

      PRN potentially during the summer.

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    2. Anonymous11:43

      Why do you think so?

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    3. Anonymous11:49

      Big cuts by GP aviation, noticeable cuts by Eurowings and little capacity growth planned for this summer even before the crisis. Growth was expected this summer between 3-5%. I'm guessing its now under 1%.

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    4. Anonymous18:37

      Interesting to see what effect the Lufthansa strike of one week had

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  5. Anonymous15:06

    It's always amazed me why there are these headlines every time an airport in the Western Balkans posts traffic statistics and it's called 'breaking a record'. Passenger traffic around the world directly tracks GDP growth and has since the advent of the airplane 100 years ago. So it's normal and expected that it will continually grow unless there is some kind of shock like a war or increased oil prices as we have now.

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    1. Anonymous15:11

      Because it breaks a record. Same titles are given when other airports in the world do it.

      https://airserviceone.com/adelaide-airport-breaks-passenger-records-and-upgrades-infrastructure-to-support-its-network-vision/

      https://ticotimes.net/2026/05/09/costa-ricas-san-jose-airport-closes-record-breaking-high-season

      https://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/news/148704/rome-s-fiumicino-airport-achieves-a-historic-recor

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    2. Anonymous15:18

      Numbers comparisons are quite when jumped up for patriotic reasons. But yeah its a global thing. Always has been right back during the 19th century until rail numbers started to fall in Europe in the 1920s. Then it became comparisons of speed that people used to compare. Nowadays its mostly passenegr figures becuase aviation has become essentailly commonplace.

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    3. Anonymous16:18

      @15:06 Yet you didn't complain about it during 60 previous months of growth. Now that the streak has been broken, you object. Hmmm

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  6. Anonymous16:20

    Weaker demand.

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    1. Anonymous19:30

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  7. Anonymous22:28

    Expected. Every airport in Ex Yu will register a decline at some point of this year.
    Some earlier than others.
    Would be interesting to see if Wizz big plans for

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    1. Anonymous23:42

      Heathrow registered a decline. It'll be ok guys. The world keeps on turning

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    2. Anonymous00:43

      It must be weak demand, or no demand at all at LHR if they registered decline. Or maybe it's reserved for ZAG only. Hmmm, tough dilemma...

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    3. Anonymous02:57

      There was not projected big growth for ZAG even before this crisis if I remember well.... so this is not surprised af all for me...

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