Croatia Airlines to lease Austrian, easyJet aircraft
Croatia Airlines will source aircraft from Austrian Airlines and easyJet as part of its expansion this summer. As previously reported, the airline will add a Dash 8 Q400 turboprop and an Airbus A319 jet to its fleet. According to the “Avio Radar” portal, the Dash 8 aircraft, currently registered OE-LGJ, is fifteen years old and has been with the Austrian carrier since it was manufactured in 2005. It will enter into service on May 1. On the other hand, the easyJet A319 destined for Croatia Airlines is seven years old. It will enter service on behalf of the Croatian carrier on March 29. The airline will also wet-lease a CRJ1000 jet from Air Nostrum on a short-term basis.
The Croatian carrier is expected to imminently schedule new routes from Zagreb for the coming summer. The General Manager of operator Airports of Montenegro, Danilo Orlandić, has confirmed that Croatia Airlines will introduce three weekly services between Zagreb and Podgorica this May. The carrier is also set to introduce flights to Sofia, while Tirana is seen as a potential new route as well. Some of the new services are expected to operate on a seasonal summer basis. Croatia Airlines discontinued its three weekly flights between Zagreb and the Montenegrin capital in February 2012. It had also previously flown to Tirana as well.
As a result of its growing fleet, as well as its route network, the carrier is currently in the process of recruiting new cabin crew members, with further information, as well as the application form, available here. The President of the airline’s Supervisory Board, Zlatko Mateša, recently said, “Croatia Airlines is a decent and high quality Central European company, whose strategic goals are, first and foremost, quality and passenger safety. In the words of our owner, the government of the Republic of Croatia, the expansion of our destination network, as well as fleet renewal, is our strategic focus in the upcoming period”.
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