United to keep Dubrovnik flights after “incredible” performance
United Airlines has scheduled seasonal flights between New York’s Newark Airport and Dubrovnik for the 2022 summer season after the route performed “incredibly well” for the carrier this year. United completed its first year of seasonal summer flights between the two cities yesterday and plans to resume operations on May 27, 2022 with four weekly rotations, departing Newark each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Furthermore, the US carrier has extended its flight program to Dubrovnik with services to be run until the end of the 2022 summer season, on October 26 of next year. All flights will be maintained by the Boeing 767-300 aircraft.
United’s Chief Commercial Officer, Andrew Nocella, has said the Dubrovnik service was launched in response to Croatia maintaining open borders for American citizens and residents throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and has performed strongly as a result. “We feel really bullish about Europe for next summer. We had a look of that this summer. We started in a few new markets. In fact, we loaded those for sale very late. And those new markets are actually, some of our top performing city fares, because Croatia and Greece in particular, made it clear to the world that they were open for business. And in fact, our customers responded to it immediately, and our new flights degrees did incredibly well”, Mr Nocella said.
United competed against its US counterpart Delta Air Lines, which also launched flights to Dubrovnik for the first time this year. Unlike United, Delta operated from New York’s JFK Airport. However, at this point, it seems unlikely Delta will restore its flights to the Croatian coast next summer with the airline already scheduling all of its new European routes introduced this year, with exception to Dubrovnik. The General Manager of Dubrovnik Airport, Frano Luetić, recently said, “Flights from the US performed well above our expectations. These incoming tourists stay in Dubrovnik, which serves as a base for them to explore other places - nearby islands and Dalmatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Furthermore, these flights are important as they have enabled cargo transport to the United States. As a result, each aircraft departs with around ten tons of exportable goods to the States”.
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