TAP eyes local traffic on new Zagreb route
TAP Air Portugal, which plans to resume flights between Lisbon and Zagreb on March 28, 2021 following a five-year hiatus, expects to handle local leisure traffic on the route. The carrier will run the service three times per week on a seasonal summer basis. The Portuguese airline said the flights are tourism-focused, with leisure demand expected to return faster than business in times of the coronavirus pandemic. During its last year of operations on the route, TAP’s passenger structure consisted of approximately 73% local traffic and 27% transfer traffic, primarily to South America. Back then, flights were operated on a year-round basis, with a four weekly non-stop service between June and September, and typically three weekly via Bologna in the other eight months of the year.
TAP has 13.392 one-way seats on sale between Lisbon and Zagreb during the summer of 2021 on a total of 93 flights. It is still unclear whether Croatia Airlines will resume its seasonal service between the two cities next year, which didn’t operate in 2020 due to Covid-19. TAP codeshares on the route, similar to the way Croatia Airlines placed its codes and flight numbers on its Portuguese counterpart’s operations up until their suspension in 2016. Both are Star Alliance members. So far, Croatia Airlines has not scheduled its Lisbon flights for next year. “TAP takes advantage of seasonal expansion opportunities to plan and strengthen its network, taking into account its strategy between Europe and the Americas, as well as Africa”, the airline said.
Despite a number of carriers temporarily suspending their operations to the Croatian capital this year, Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines commenced services between Kiev and Zagreb last month, with TAP becoming the first carrier to announce new flights to the city since the onset of the pandemic. Based on existing flight schedules for next summer season, which are highly likely to change, TAP will tie with Korean Air in market share based on frequency at Zagreb Airport, ahead of Vueling but behind Brussels Airlines.
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| Carriers by projected frequency at Zagreb Airport, summer 2021 |
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