Croatia Airlines plans coastal network expansion in 2023
Croatia Airlines plans to expand its network from the country’s coast during the 2023 summer season after launching a number of new routes from Split this year. Speaking to EX-YU Aviation News, the carrier said, “This summer season, Croatia Airlines launched new routes from Split to Amsterdam, Bucharest, Dublin, Milan, and Stockholm. All these new routes achieved expected results. However, the company sees room for improvement and innovative steps in strategic positioning”. It added, “The company is also planning new routes from Croatia’s other coastal airports in the summer of 2023, but this plan still depends on different factors, both internal and external, and will definitely not be ready for publication before the end of the Slot Conference [in Melbourne] in November. It should also be emphasised that Croatia Airlines is the only carrier serving all (eight) Croatian airports”.
Apart from introducing new routes from Split this summer, the carrier based an Airbus A319 and a Dash 8 aircraft in Croatia’s second largest city, enabling it to increase frequencies to a number of destinations. In addition to Zagreb and Split, Croatia Airlines also maintained six international routes from Dubrovnik this summer, as well as one each from Rijeka and Osijek. “We have tried to tailor our flight network to our passengers’ needs and in support of Croatia’s tourism”, the airline previously noted. It further added that it has seen a swifter recovery in demand from the coronavirus pandemic among tourists rather than business travellers.
The airline’s greater focus on Croatia’s coast has coincided with the opening of Ryanair’s base in Zagreb and its launch of over twenty new routes from the city. However, the Croatian carrier said the two are not in relation to one another. “Croatia Airlines has faced strong competition since 2006, when the liberalisation of the Croatian market began. During the last sixteen years, all major legacy and low cost carriers have been present in Croatia, especially during the summer season, and Croatia Airlines has learned to deal with the competition, and, as a member of the Star Alliance, to cooperate with competitors”. It added, “Croatia Airlines provides passengers a high-quality legacy carrier service, offering flights to main European gateways and connecting flights to over 150 destinations around the world. The business relationship we have with Zagreb Airport, our home airport, reflects our traffic volume, and related commercial conditions”.
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