Ryanair to restore Zagreb network
Low cost carrier Ryanair is restoring destinations and frequencies from its Zagreb base over the next two weeks following over two consecutive months of reductions and suspensions. The airline will bring back a third stationed aircraft to the Croatian capital, enabling it to restore frequencies on a number of routes, as well as resume operations to Basel, Sofia and Brindisi. Furthermore, the budget carrier will reinstate frequencies on flights to Baden Baden, Bergamo, Beauvais, Charleroi, Gothenburg, Hahn, Malaga, Malmo, Malta, Memmingen, Paphos, Sandefjord and Weeze. On the other hand, its newly launched service between Zagreb and Corfu has been reduced to one weekly rotation and will remain that way. Ryanair never provided a reason for the cuts, although staffing issues and a lack of equipment are believed to have been partially to blame.
Commenting on its Zagreb operations, the airline said, “Ryanair is Europe’s and Croatia’s number one airline. We have seen strong summer bookings to date from Zagreb with a total of 27 routes. Ryanair’s three Zagreb-based aircraft represent an investment of 300 million US dollars, which will support over ninety highly paid aviation jobs and over 1.000 total jobs in Zagreb”. It added, “As we look forward with a strong summer of bookings to/from Zagreb, Ryanair will operate almost eighty weekly flights (over thirty more than last year) to give our Zagreb customers an abundance of choice to top European destinations like London, Milan and Paris or popular holiday hotspots like Brindisi, Corfu and Malaga, whilst giving Zagreb inbound tourism a boost after two lost years”.
This year, Ryanair has either temporarily suspended or reduced its number of flights out of Zagreb over a total of five months. In January and February, sixteen of Ryanair’s routes from the Croatian capital were temporarily suspended due to reduced demand resulting from a resurgence in the coronavirus pandemic, while the latest reductions and suspensions began in May and were eventually extended into mid-July. Ryanair has quickly become Zagreb’s second busiest airline in terms of passengers carried, offered capacity and the number of flights, while it is the Croatian capital’s biggest airline when it comes to the number of destinations on offer.
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