Ryanair routes among Zagreb’s busiest
Less than a year since launching operations from Zagreb and establishing a base in Croatia’s capital, several of Ryanair’s routes are among the airport’s busiest. During the first quarter of the year, Ryanair’s operations to London Stansted and Dublin have performed particularly well. The airline handled 18.051 travellers between Zagreb and the capital of the United Kingdom, with just over 13.000 travellers on its Dublin service over the three-month period. London Stansted is also the budget carrier’s most frequent destination out of Zagreb. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, Ryanair confirmed, “Currently, we are really satisfied with the majority of the markets served out of Zagreb. For example, the UK market performs really well, as well as Ireland with the Dublin route”.
Launched last July, it took just two months for Ryanair to close in on Croatia Airlines’ and British Airways’ figures on their competing Zagreb - Heathrow route. In September, the two national airlines handled a total of 7.544 passengers between the two cities, while Ryanair welcomed 6.842 travellers on its Stansted service, a difference of just over 700 customers. In October, the difference between the two shortened to just 234 passengers, while Ryanair has been handling more travellers between the two capitals since November of last year, when it had double the number of passengers. During the ongoing second quarter of the year, Ryanair has reduced its frequencies to London, along with a number of other routes from Zagreb, although British Airways has also heavily downsized its operations from Heathrow to the Croatian capital.
Overall, Frankfurt remains Zagreb’s busiest destination with 46.172 passengers travelling between the two cities during the first quarter of the year on Croatia Airlines and Lufthansa. The figure is still down 34.7% on the pre-pandemic 2019. Furthermore, Ryanair has also taken away some passengers from the two legacy carriers by launching operations from Zagreb to Hahn. Following behind are flights between the Croatian capital and Amsterdam with 36.297 travellers handled during the first quarter on Croatia Airlines and KLM. The figure is ahead of 2019 levels by 3.2%. The Amsterdam route has performed well throughout the pandemic. Dubrovnik was Zagreb’s busiest domestic route during the first three months with 28.326 passengers, followed by Split with 24.242 travellers. Both are still notably down on 2019, by 45.2% and 30.6% respectively.
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