Emirates and Korean Air prepare for Zagreb return
Emirates and Korean Air will resume their seasonal operations to Croatia in March following an almost five-month hiatus. The Dubai-based airline will return to Zagreb on March 29, taking the service over from its partner Flydubai. The Croatian capital was the first example of a route-sharing strategy implemented by the two airlines. Emirates’ Area Manager, Martin Gross, recently said, "Zagreb is an example of how much our cooperation with Flydubai managed to improve our results. We served the route in winter with our Boeing 777 aircraft. However, it emerged that this route is not as strong in winter, so now we can still continue serving Zagreb well through Flydubai”.
Emirates recently said it sees its Dubai - Zagreb service developing in the future. “Zagreb is corresponding with our development in Europe. We have wide coverage in Europe, and we understood that Croatia has big potential for two reasons. First, it is a destination that is really interesting for travel from Asia, Australia, China and Taiwan. Therefore, there is a lot of incoming traffic to Zagreb and the entire country in general. From Croatia it is a way to offer the local population a link to our Dubai hub. There is a lot of demand from Croatia to the world. This is primarily to Dubai but also beyond, for example, to destinations in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, such as Phuket in Thailand”, Emirates said.
Korean Air will resume flights to Zagreb on March 31 with extra capacity compared to last year. The airline will operate its 269-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its three weekly services between Seoul and the Croatian capital instead of the of 218-seat Airbus A330-200 jet it previously utilised. However, the carrier is still undecided whether the route, which was downgraded from year-round to seasonal operations in 2019, will continue to run in such a way. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, the airline said, “We have not yet decided whether suspending the flights during the winter season will be continued in the future”.
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