Croatia Airlines to limit network to fifteen in October
Croatia Airlines will maintain flights to fifteen international destinations during the month of October, twelve of which will run from Zagreb, ten from Split, two from Dubrovnik and one from Rijeka. Domestic flights will operate from the Croatian capital to five destinations, two from Osijek, and one each from Split and Dubrovnik. “The national carrier has proven itself to be an important factor in the country’s transport infrastructure during these extraordinary circumstances, given that it never stopped flying and was the only airline to have continuously enabled Croatia’s connectivity to the world during this epidemiological crisis. During the peak summer season, the company’s aircraft linked Zagreb directly with fourteen destinations, Split with eleven and Dubrovnik with seven international destinations”, Croatia Airlines said in a statement.
Unlike in September, the carrier will no longer maintain operations from Zagreb to Athens and Dublin and will run fewer frequencies on a number of routes. Last year, the airline maintained 24 international destinations from the Croatian capital. As part of its international network, during October the carrier will fly to Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, Skopje, Vienna and Zurich from Zagreb, to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Rome, Vienna and Zurich from Split, to Frankfurt and Rome from Dubrovnik, as well as to Munich from Rijeka. Due to a number of travel restrictions and declining demand, Croatia Airlines cancelled 80% of its planned flights during September.
The Croatian government will unveil plans to financially assist its national carrier in the coming weeks. On Thursday, it approved a deadline extension for the repayment of an 8.5 million euro loan the company took from one state-owned and one private bank in 2018 in order to finance the overhaul of its engines. Initially, the loan was to be repaid by December 31, 2022, but an extension has been granted until June 30, 2023. The Croatian Ministry for Sea, Transport and Infrastructure noted the carrier had requested for the deferral in payments of certain obligations due to difficulties arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. The changes primarily relate to the maturity and repayment of the loan, the repayment method, calculation of interest and the interest period.
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