Croatia Airlines devises flight resumption strategy
Croatia Airlines has drafted three different plans for the wider resumption of its international flights, depending on how the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic progresses. “Croatia Airlines will be the first carrier to bring tourists to Croatia and enable the country’s connectivity to the world. We will start with domestic operations first. In terms of international flights, we currently have three active strategies, of which each has several sub-strategies, on how to resume services. Routes with healthy point-to-point demand and some transfer traffic will be prioritised. However, considering the number of unknowns, we are still keeping all scenarios open and are constantly devising new ones”, Croatia Airlines’ Director for Network and Revenue Management, Krešimir Mlinar, said at the Aviation Arena webinar last week.
Mr Mlinar noted that the airline has no plans to make wider changes to its planned network at the moment. “At this point I can’t say we will start flying to Copenhagen, but we won’t launch Dublin. It will depend on a number of factors. We are currently not considering a network reshuffle. We believe our big advantage is that we fly to hub airports and have a significant number of passengers transferring onto our partner airlines”, Mr Mlinar noted. Croatia Airlines will resume domestic flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik and Split on May 11, both of which will operate twice per day, while services to Pula and Zadar will commence on May 18 and to Brač on May 19.
Croatia Airlines has been operating one daily flight to Frankfurt over the past few weeks, which will continue to be maintained until the wider resumption of international services. “We currently run one daily rotation to Frankfurt. We positioned this flight in order utilise the 6.00 PM slot so we can carry as many transfer passengers from Frankfurt to Zagreb. The role of this flight is for the continued repatriation of Croatian nationals - and there are still those coming home - as well as foreign nationals who are leaving Croatia. In mid-March we decided not to discontinue all operations, as most other airlines have. During this period, we carried 23.000 Croatian citizens who had to come back to the country”, Mr Mlinar concluded.
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