Croatia Airlines plans to upgrade a select number of its seasonal routes during the upcoming winter season, which begins on October 25. Several services will be extended beyond their traditional summer schedules, with some becoming year-round operations while others will be maintained for most of the winter.
The carrier's Zagreb - Madrid service, launched on a seasonal basis last July, will now operate for most of the year. Flights will continue three times per week until January 16, 2027, before being suspended for two months. Services are scheduled to resume on March 15. Croatia Airlines will face no direct competition on the route during the winter months.
Services between the Croatian capital and Stockholm, which were extended last winter to operate until mid-January before being suspended throughout February and most of March, will now run throughout the entire winter season. Croatia Airlines plans to maintain three weekly flights on the route. The carrier does not face direct competition between the two capitals.
Elsewhere in its network, Croatia Airlines will also upgrade its Split - Istanbul service to year-round operations. During the previous winter season, the route was maintained until January 11 before resuming in March. This winter, however, flights will operate throughout the season with three weekly rotations. The airline will once again face no direct competition on the route.
Further changes to Croatia Airlines' 2026/27 winter network remain possible. As previously reported, the carrier has removed its Rijeka - Munich service from the upcoming winter schedule. The flag carrier has repeatedly said that one of its strategic goals is to reduce the seasonality of air travel in Croatia by maintaining a greater number of services throughout the winter months.
At least something positive. Let's hope it sticks.
ReplyDeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteHilarious hahahah, lol
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DeleteWeekend dedicated to Croatia Airlines news. Mix of positive and negative news.
ReplyDeleteWe are used to negative news related to OU. Finally at least a bit of positivity.
DeleteDear Mario, I'm afraid this is not even a bit of positivity. It will just increase losses. The problem is not one or few patricular services which operate year-round or over a period of time. Main problem is strategy to serve as humiliated feeder, for peanuts, without proper hub, without proper fleet, without proper waves, without proper network, without strong marketing, without adequate price policy,, without much more codeshares, and many more. Cutting or extending one or two, or even 8 routes will change nothing, as long as general strategy is to remain LHG (or anyone else) feeder, and obedient, incompetent, inert and letargic aparatchiks appointed by politics to execute such strategy
DeleteI know, you can't make a running business without a proper management and with huge corruption. I just checked their prices for a return flight in November to Madrid. It's about 300€. For the same dates Air Serbia ich charging cca. 200€ from Belgrade, same as Lufthansa from Munich...I remember when flying last year with OU from Dubrovnik to Zagreb that one small Heineken beer was 8€. Sad pricing strategy.
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DeleteThey have cheaper tickets compared to KLM, around €100, which I recently checked out.
Cheaper than KLM from Amsterdam to Madrid and back or KLM from HR to Spain?
DeleteGood news
ReplyDeleteThey should try DBV-BEG in winter before JU goes in.
ReplyDeleteHowever without an onwards connection relationship they are not going to make it pay. If OU had any sense (and they do not) they would be seeking a good relationship with JU to provide extra connectivity from the coast. Imagine morning departures from the coast to Belgrade to connect to the New York flights etc. Anyway, one can dream...
DeleteIf they can't make Dubrovnik-Stuttgart work at the height of summer and had to suspend the route, you really think they can make DBV-BEG work in winter? Please
DeleteNot without a relationship with JU they cannot make it work. People seem to forget that although Dubrovnik is a huge tourist draw its actually population (and even the wider region it serves) is tiny.
DeleteAnd still no ATH, pitty Aegean now operate 3 weekly to ZAG year round..
ReplyDeleteMy Aegean flight in April from Athens to Zagreb has been canceled, so I had to connect via Malta. It's crazy that on this day two flights from Malta to Zagreb operated but non from Athens.
DeleteJazzy B has this. Bravo Jasmin
ReplyDeleteGood to see Croatia Airlines finally reducing seasonality.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what the A220 fleet was supposed to enable. More efficient year round operations on thinner routes.
DeleteThat is evident by a suspension on 8 routes
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DeleteAfter Medicol, the biggest corruptive case in Croatia is BCG with Croatia Airlines and single type A220 fleet as a result of it. If Croatia were the country with the rule of law, all individuals involved in it should have been investigated and charged. But we all know why "naš dečko" famous for night car rides with Mafia members and fugitives from criminal prosecution, has been appointed Attorney General. Despite all your attempts to hide it and to advocate their crime and corruption
Where is the proof for corruption in BCG deal?
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DeleteI feel sorry for you
I'm asking again, where is the proof for corruption in BCG deal?
DeleteI'm sorry but the fact that Stockholm could not have become a year round route from a European capital until the year 2027 is crazy.
ReplyDeleteEven Banja Luka has it for years.
DeleteWell, it is difficult to compare. Bosnian diaspora in Sweden was, is and will be huge. People are leaving Bosnia for Northern and Western Europe in high numbers. That explains why the demand for flights from BNX to Sweden is how it is.
DeleteAll in all demand for something like Zagreb to Stockholm during the wintertime is a completely different story.
The challenge will be January and February. Those are the real tests for these routes.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if they didn't price their flights so badly during the winter people might actually utilise them.
DeleteIt's poor yield management
DeleteWho travel on IST-SPU or to Dubrovnik with TK? Turkish tourists?
ReplyDeleteAnyone connecting via IST.
DeleteMy cousin from the US flew TK to SPU via IST 2 months ago
DeleteThese all sound reasonable and way overdue
ReplyDeleteUntil OU actually know how to handle yield management LF will be disastrous in summer and winter
ReplyDeleteThat is a broad statement that doesn't really mean a whole lot.
DeletePut it more simpler if they used dynamic pricing they can control yields better and thus increase the abysmal LF. Just look how successful FR is at filling a plane
DeleteI wonder, what about Lisbon, Porto, Tel Aviv, Malaga, maybe even some Dubai with the A319?
ReplyDeleteWe could reduce our dependence on Germany and look towards Poland, Spain, Turkey, Italy...
It was reported here that they tried several times to get slots for Lisbon but were rejected. They never should have discontinued it in the first place few years ago.
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DeleteReduce dependence from Germany? No way. Maybe you still don't know, but Ivan Mišetić surrendered Croatian market to Germans, for his personal benefits. As he is part of the Organization that rules and controls Croatia (country), his mates from Organization (so called government) appoints incompetent aparatchiks to keep status quo. Another proof is A220 single type BCG highly corruptive deal which cemented its role as a feeder. If politics exited company, if professional and competent management was hired, what you suggest could have happened, and relatively quickly. Unfortunatelly entire country, OU included, is a hostage of Organization which uses it as their own ATM
@PIR
DeleteIs it really necessary to have the following on a weekly basis:
- 29 flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik (and the same number back to Split)
- Munich – almost every day
Instead of Munich, we could add Malaga, Manchester, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, etc.
Instead of flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik and Split, they could be replaced, for example, with Porto, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria,...
The northern countries could easily be reached from Split or Dubrovnik in the summer months if we remove unnecessary flights.
I have sources saying that some flights in mid-May/June have only 5–10 passengers to Scandinavian countries from
In this way, with small 'test' changes, we could do more; 9A-CTN (since it's a fairly new plane) could, for example, easily be used for Dubai, Moscow (when it's safe), ......
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Delete5-10 passengers from Zagreb airport.
@14:34 Bulgaria? Manchester is well
DeleteComnected to Split with the bigs boys. Moscow? U realise Russians will need visas for years. Sorry but this doesnt make any sense.
Istanbul has become one of Croatia Airlines' smartest additions in recent years. Plenty of transfer opportunities through Turkish Airlines' network.
ReplyDeleteThey should let at TK by 49% of it and feed Istanbul.
DeleteNo one is going to buy a bankrupt state run basketcase like OU.
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