Winter 2022/23 - Croatia Airlines

Croatia Airlines has finalised its network for the 2022/2023 winter season which begins on October 30 and runs until March 25 of next year. The carrier plans to operate over 8.500 scheduled flights, representing an increase of 29% on last year. It will maintain thirteen international destinations out of its Zagreb hub. The airline will restore limited services from the Croatian capital to Dublin, which have been suspended for most of the summer season. Furthermore, it will increase frequencies on services to Brussels, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Munich, Vienna, Sarajevo and Skopje when compared to the majority of the current summer season. In addition, it will maintain domestic services to Dubrovnik, Pula, Split and Zadar. The carrier will operate the same number of destinations as the previous winter season. Compared to the pre-pandemic 2018/2019 and the start of the 2019/2020 winter, it will not serve Barcelona, Lisbon and Mostar from its main hub.

Departing Zagreb

The carrier will introduce two new routes, with limited operations from both Split and Pula to Zurich. Both have so far been maintained on a seasonal summer basis. During the upcoming winter, they will run twice per week, each Wednesday and Saturday, with the Dash 8 turboprop aircraft. At this point, the two services have been scheduled to run until mid-January of next year. As a result, this winter, for the first time in years, Croatia Airlines will run international flights out of Pula, complementing its domestic operations to Zagreb and Zadar. Croatia Airlines will operate flights from Split to Frankfurt, Munich, Rome and Zagreb, in addition to its new Zurich service.

Departing Split

Operations to Dubrovnik have been reduced to a single domestic route, in contrast to prior to the pandemic when there were also flights to Frankfurt. From Osijek, the carrier will continue to maintain services to Munich, which were launched earlier this year. Similarly, from Rijeka, the airline will boast flights to the Bavarian capital, while services from Zadar will be maintained to Pula and Zagreb. Utilisation of the carrier’s Dash 8 Q400 turboprops will be increased, with the 78-seat aircraft deployed on almost all routes. Destinations which will be exclusively served by jet-engine aircraft include those from Zagreb to London Heathrow, Paris and Frankfurt, as well as from Split to Frankfurt.

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