Qatar Airways ups Zagreb, adds Dreamliner to Belgrade in coming days

Qatar Airways will increase its frequencies between Doha and Zagreb this coming winter season, while the carrier has scheduled wide-body capacity on select Belgrade flights in the upcoming days. The Qatari carrier will maintain ten weekly operations to the Croatian capital during the 2023/24 winter season, which begins on October 29, up from the seven weekly service initially planned. Although frequencies are still down on double daily, which were maintained prior to the pandemic, they are notably up on three to four weekly rotations performed over most of the previous winter season, bar November and December 2022 when flights were increased during the FIFA World Cup.

Qatar Airways handled 32.437 passengers on its Doha - Zagreb service during the first half of the year, representing an increase of 90.8% on the same period in 2022, however, figures are still down 53.1% on the pre-pandemic 2019. The average cabin load factor on the route for the first six-month period in 2023 stood at a high 89.4%, up 28.5 points on 2022 and an increase of 19.9 points on 2019. All of the airline’s flights for the remainder of the year are scheduled to operate with the Airbus A320 aircraft. Qatar Airways primarily handles transfer traffic on its Zagreb route, with main origin and beyond points being Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and select Southeast and Far East Asian markets.

Qatar Airways plans to run daily operations between Doha and Belgrade this winter season, maintaining its summer and pre-pandemic frequencies. Although the airline primarily deploys its Airbus A320 aircraft on the route, it has scheduled the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on the service over the upcoming days. Qatar Airways will deploy the 254-seat twin-aisle aircraft, featuring 22 business class and 232 economy class seats, on Sunday September 17, Friday September 22 and Sunday September 24. Last-minute equipment changes remain possible. Currently, there is no up-to-date data on the airline’s passenger numbers between Doha and Belgrade, however, similar to Zagreb, it mostly handles transfer passengers on the route, with Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Shanghai being main origin and beyond points, followed by markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.