Croatia Airlines has made further changes to its network this week and will suspend its year-round service between Rijeka and Munich. The route will be discontinued on October 23, with ticket sales for the 2026/27 winter season now suspended. The airline has operated the service year-round since 2018, making it Rijeka’s only international route during the winter months and the only scheduled service maintained from the airport as well. Croatia Airlines had initially planned to maintain three weekly flights between the two cities throughout the upcoming winter season. In addition, the Croatian carrier will reduce frequencies on its Osijek - Munich route over the winter from three to two weekly, removing its Wednesday rotation but keeping its Monday and Friday departures. Further changes remain possible at this stage.
This year, Croatia Airlines has removed six routes that were operated during the 2025 summer season. These include services from Zagreb to Milan, Tirana and Bucharest, as well as from Split to Amsterdam, Skopje and Bucharest. Furthermore, the carrier has temporarily suspended one of its two new seasonal summer routes, between Dubrovnik and Stuttgart, less than a month after its launch. The flights, which are suspended for over a month and a half, are due to resume on July 31.
Further changes to the network are expected as the airline is yet to finalise its operations for the 2026/27 winter season which begins on October 25. The airline recently said, “We are trying to offset costs through network and capacity optimisation, as well as by improving efficiency. That means aligning capacity with current demand, operating costs and revenue levels on individual routes, which naturally also includes flight cancellations”.
From lost battle to lost battle untill the final victory. Well done!
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DeleteAll experts from aviation... lol OU is doing well and results are better than expected. Proof than Minken and Vrankvurt are also affected. .Amazing company, amazing management, new planes, lot of routes, tourist oriented com[pany who improve tourism etc Bravo Jasmine!!
DeleteIt sure is amazing. It was just declared the other day Croatia's most loss making company.
DeleteAjme kakvi uspjesi
DeleteKM Croatia Airlines with make huge difference
DeleteThe airline might want to consider purchasing or leasing the E195-e2. A switch is very expensive at first, but I bet they could negotiate that cost with Embraer. Purchasing or leasing spare engines still makes sense because of the E2’s vastly better numbers than older-generation Airbus equipment. I think that with the E2, the seasonal pullback of service would not need to be so severe. Big fluctuations in the schedules drives up costs for the remaining routes as crews stand down and wait until demand picks up enough to fill up an Airbus plane. Wishing this company all the best. D
DeleteThis is some low level AI ...
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With all due respect, was there really a need for 3 weekly flights from Rijeka to Munich in the dead of winter?
ReplyDeleteRijeka is a very important port. But yeah Zagreb is very close. Not that they have a wild network from there. Useless company, barely a footnote in european aviation.
DeleteMaybe it's time for RJK to offer JU subsidies to operate 3 weekly to BEG in winter. However they should insist on keeping flights in the noon wave.
DeleteRijeka needs a connection with a serious transfer hub and BEG stills needs to work a lot on improved connections.
DeleteBeggars can't be choosers. It's not like RJK has a choice especially after flights to MUC failed.
Delete@09:13 Rijeka needs a proper train line to Zagreb. Not the disaster of a century ago. Its so close to Zagreb that with a good rail link the airport is hardly needed in winter at all.
DeleteAnd tell me, what is more realistic for Rijeka? A subsidized flight to BEG or a new train line not only to Zagreb but to Zagreb airport.
DeleteNeither will occur.
DeleteTbey already offered in the pasr some sort of subsidy to JU.
DeleteTrue, JU operated subsidized RJK flights but times were bizarre
DeleteSubsidized flights to BEG are not needed at all. There are only few transfer possibilities in BEG. RJK needs a connection with a serious hub like FRA, AMS etc.
Delete^ and I'm guessing Munich is an unserious hub?
Delete^ and i'm guessing you are trolling?
DeleteYou said
Delete"RJK needs a connection with a serious hub like FRA, AMS etc."
If MUC failed to work, I'm guessing it's not a serious hub?
Let's be honest his problem is with BEG and Serbia. If you proposed VIE, WAW, IST or RIX he would agree with you.
DeleteVIE, WAW, IST are far bigger hubs than BEG. Try again.
DeleteWhat are they going to do with all these planes?
ReplyDeleteSpeed up the retirement of A319s and Q400s I guess
DeleteRent them to LHG same as airBaltic.
DeleteOr rent them to JU, just as airBaltic?
DeleteNot gonna happen
DeleteLeased them to Air Baltic as for commonality purposes….
DeleteWhat a transformative year....
ReplyDeleteBCG for the win!
Delete“We are trying to offset costs through network and capacity optimisation, as well as by improving efficiency.”
DeleteLots of expensive shiny new planes sitting around collecting dust. How about some leisure flights to the Canaries in winter? Think of all those Slovenian pax
ReplyDeleteWatch them being employed by LH Group next summer. I guess OU will be cheaper than BT.
DeleteAnyone remember Jasmin Bajic from a year ago saying he has a lisrlt of 20 new routes he will launch with the A220s....
ReplyDeleteI don't like the guy but he never said that. The list was about potential routes
DeletePIR will not like this
ReplyDeletePIR has been highlighting for years how OU fail both in regional connectivity, so i dount think he will be 'annoyed' rather just futher evidence to confirm his completly correct argument that the airline is being run by criminally inept politically-linked fools.
DeleteThey will shrink themselves into bankruptcy in the end.
ReplyDeleteThey only have liquidity at the moment due to yet another taxpayer bail out
DeleteCroatian government isn't exactly swimming in cash. Just look at Latvia which is become increasingly irritated by BT and their losses.
DeleteHR might support a bailout for political reasons by the ministry of finance won't be happy since they are the ones who will have to secure the funds.
pray for PIR
ReplyDeleteFor any hope of survival the airline needs heavy restructuring in the managment sector
ReplyDeleteOU needs a strategy.
DeleteIt's impossible to understand what is their goal.
So many A220 and no routes to employ them.
Probably E2 combined with 4/5 ATRs would have been more adapted fleet for a sustainable yearly utilisation
I suggest a solution for Croatia:
ReplyDelete1. In winter, keep the profitable routes and offer charters
2. Find routes with no competition or routes with low frequency (Manchester, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Riga, Nottingham, and Spain in general)
3. If you aren't capable of doing that, sell the company to a company that is able to run an airline (or at least a share). For example, a company in Croatia could be ETF Airways, Trade Air, in Slovenia, for instance, Solinair, in Serbia it could be AirSerbia ----> many good companies that, in my opinion, could make the company profitable.
11:27 They already do and that is the best what OU can do
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DeleteI see that after a quarter of this year, the loss is like last year for the whole year
None of those companies especially Trade has an organisational structure to facilitate any large scale operation. Those are attempts of an airline. They lack corporate culture, safety culture to sustain anything but limited operations.
DeleteOtkazuj sve sto je i blizu Wizz air destinacijama.. a ima ih dosta.
ReplyDeleteThey are too stupid to look which clients would fly the routes. Munich to Rijeka only make sense if they fly on Friday and Sunday. All other days are doomed for failure
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