Zagreb Airport night closure to affect over hundred flights
Zagreb Airport has issued a Notice To Air Missions (NOTAM), an aviation document informing all carriers of important and urgent messages, due to a general overhaul that will take place of the airport’s runway and taxiways between 23.00 and 6.25 CEST the following morning from May 2 until May 31. During this time, aircraft will be unable to either land or take off from the airport. This has resulted in several airlines tweaking their Zagreb schedules to work around the closure. However, Ryanair has been forced to cancel over fifty rotations, or a total of over 100 flights, during May as a result of the work.
Ryanair’s Zagreb passengers have begun receiving email notifications concerning the 110 flight cancellations during May. Although the majority of the cancelled services were scheduled to touch down in Zagreb before the airport closure, due to frequent delays experienced by aircraft on their final rotation of the day, the airline has pre-emptively shelved select flights. According to the “Croatia Aviation” portal, Ryanair has cancelled the most flights between Zagreb and Bergamo, a total of twelve rotations, followed by Dublin with ten rotations, Charleroi with eight, Hahn, Corfu and Malta with five, as well as Memmingen, Malmo and London Stansted with four cancelled rotations. The airline is yet to make changes to its Sofia and Malaga services where the inbound flight is scheduled to land in the Croatian capital past eleven in the evening. Further modifications remain likely.
Zagreb Airport last carried out extensive work on its single runway five years ago, in 2018, which also resulted in its night-time closure for two months. During that time, repairs on damages to the runway were made by replacing concrete slabs. Prior to that, the last general overhaul of the runway was conducted in 2010. The night-time closure is expected to have a greater impact on passengers compared to five years ago due to the increased volume of traffic at Zagreb Airport. During the first quarter of this year, Zagreb Airport welcomed 694.956 travellers through its doors, an increase of 14.8% on the pre-pandemic 2019, or an additional 89.627 passengers.
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