Croatia - Greece market set for strong growth
Flights between Croatia and Greece will see significant growth over the coming summer season with more destinations, greater capacity and three airlines maintaining services between the two countries. It comes after Greece’s Aegean Airlines submitted a nonbinding bid for the acquisition of Croatia Airlines. This summer, Aegean will increase capacity on all of its routes to Croatia. The airline will maintain three weekly services between the capital cities of both countries, with the Airbus A319 to be deployed twice per week and the A320 once per week. Last year, the carrier operated four weekly rotations on the route, however, all were run with the 78-seat Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop.
Furthermore, Aegean will exclusively utilise the A320 on its five weekly flights to Dubrovnik, instead of the Dash, while services to Split will be maintained four times per week with the A319 instead of five weekly with the turboprop aircraft. In addition, Aegean has expanded its codeshare partnership with Air Serbia to include all of latter’s destinations to Croatia - Dubrovnik, Pula, Rijeka, Split, Zadar and Zagreb. Next summer, Croatia Airlines will continue to run six weekly services from Zagreb to Athens via Dubrovnik. Flights will operate with a mix of Dash 8s and wet-leased Bombardier CRJ1000 jets from Air Nostrum. Currently, the Croatian carrier has no codeshare agreement in place with its Star Alliance partner Aegean.
Low cost airline Volotea will resume three weekly flights between Athens and Dubrovnik this summer. It will be complemented with the introduction of a new two weekly service between Athens and Split starting April 19, as well as a new route from the island of Mykonos to Dubrovnik, commencing May 30. It marks the first time Croatia will be linked with a scheduled air service to any city in Greece other than Athens. “These are very attractive additions for a very dynamic market in which we believe there is still good room for growth”, Carlos Munoz, the CEO and Founder of Volotea said. A total of 33 288 Greek tourists visited Croatia in 2018.
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