TAP Air Portugal discontinues Zagreb service
TAP Air Portugal has confirmed it is discontinuing its seasonal service between Lisbon and Zagreb with the carrier terminating sales between the two cities. Passengers who booked tickets with the carrier for the route in the coming months have received e-mail notifications of their cancellations and offered alternative flights with other airlines. TAP maintained operations between the Portuguese and Croatian capitals three times per week, with the service being restored last year following a five-year hiatus. The carrier used its 144-seat Airbus A319 aircraft on the route. As a result of the termination, at this point, there will be no flights between Zagreb and Portugal this summer, despite solid two-way passenger traffic with both Lisbon and Porto.
Prior to 2022, TAP last operated flights to Zagreb in March 2016. Following, the route's termination, the Portuguese carrier initially codeshared on Croatia Airlines’ service between Zurich and Zagreb but later added its codes onto its Star Alliance partner’s new seasonal nonstop service between the Croatian and Portuguese cities, which was launched in the summer of 2016. Although the service was to resume in the summer of 2020, the flights never materialised as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Croatia Airlines has not resumed the service since and has no plans to do so. TAP first introduced services to Zagreb in 2004 and in its final years maintained year-round operations, with winter flights running via Bologna.
TAP is the latest in a string of high-profile carriers to reduce their operations to the Croatian capital. Recently, Air France cancelled its planned second daily service between Paris and Zagreb, which was to be maintained during the peak summer months from July until September. Lufthansa has delayed the introduction of its second daily service from Munich to Zagreb, which was initially planned to commence on March 26. Flights have been pushed back until July. Finally, British Airways has more than halved its planned operations between London Heathrow and Zagreb this summer, with the airline to run six weekly rotations between the two cities instead of the initially scheduled double daily flights. Zagreb Airport will hike its fees for airlines from the start of the 2023 summer season, however, there is no evidence the reduction in operations by select airlines is in relation to that decision.
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