The Summer Flight Schedule Brings Crowds in the Sky Above Croatia

In the coming months, there will be a significant intensification of air traffic to Croatian destinations, as well as the introduction of new and increased frequencies of existing routes, as stated by the Main Office of the Croatian Tourist Board.

With the approach of the Easter holidays and the start of the summer flight schedule and seasonal tourist flights, operations of aircraft to Croatian airports will significantly increase this year, as in previous years, and although it is still early for assessments, it is expected that there will be more flights than ever this year.

– In addition to regular flights, with the approach of the summer season, charter air traffic will also be significantly activated with various frequencies and periods of flying, emphasize the Main Office of the HTZ.

Zagreb and Split with Numerous News

According to the data currently available to the Main Office of the HTZ, news for Zagreb Airport includes flights of Korean Air from Incheon in South Korea to Zagreb from May 20 to June 17 and again in the off-season from September 16 to October 14. Croatia Airlines is introducing new routes from Zagreb to Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Prague, Milan, and Amsterdam, Germanwings will operate a route to Hamburg from the end of July to the end of August, and a flight by Air Transat on the Toronto-Zagreb route is planned from June 14 to October 5. Czech Airlines will operate on the Zagreb-Prague route from April 27, Norwegian Air Shuttle is introducing the Copenhagen-Zagreb route in the summer flight schedule, and Aeroflot will operate on the Moscow-Zagreb route from March 27 to October 31.

For Split Airport, there is the Vienna-Split route of the Austrian low-cost airline Niki, TUI’s Jetairfly which will fly to Split from Antwerp, Belgium from April 1, and from French airports Paris, Saint-Gatien, Lyon, Nantes, and Toulouse from early May, except for Lyon which will start in early July. Split will also be connected to France by the Transavia.com Paris-Split route and Volotea on the Bordeaux-Split and Toulouse-Split routes. There are also news from the German market for Split, as Air Berlin is introducing routes from Berlin and Düsseldorf in mid-May, while Croatia Airlines is introducing a route from Erfurt at the end of April, and Express Airways a route from Baden in early May. The carrier Germania is opening a new route from Zurich to Split, and Sky Work Airlines from Bern, both starting in early June, and there are new flights from Italy, easyJet’s Naples-Split and Vueling’s from Catania and Palermo. Czech Airlines will establish the Ostrava-Split route from June 18, and LOT Polish Airlines will operate the Warsaw-Split route from early May. Many new routes are also opening from Scandinavia, as Finnair and Jet Time are introducing the Helsinki-Split route in early May, while Norwegian is introducing the same route at the end of March. SAS will introduce the Copenhagen-Split route from early May, and Norwegian from early April, while from the end of July to early September, Air Nostrum will fly on the Madrid-Split route. Aeroflot is opening a seasonal flight Moscow-Split from June 1 to October 2, and S7 Siberia will also operate a seasonal flight on the Moscow-Split route from June 5 to October 2.

News for Dubrovnik and Zadar

New airline routes from the United Kingdom to Dubrovnik include easyJet’s Bristol-Dubrovnik route and Norwegian’s London-Dubrovnik route, while from Germany, Air Berlin will introduce new routes from Düsseldorf and Berlin to Dubrovnik, as well as easyJet from Berlin, Luxair from Cologne, and Transavia from Munich. New routes for Dubrovnik will also come from France, specifically Transavia on the Paris-Dubrovnik route, easyJet Toulouse-Dubrovnik, and Volotea which will connect Dubrovnik with Marseille and Nantes, and Polish LOT is introducing a route from Warsaw. News from the Scandinavian market includes routes that will connect Dubrovnik with Copenhagen (carriers Norwegian and SAS) and Helsinki (Finnair and Norwegian), the carrier Niki will connect Dubrovnik with Vienna, and Volotea with Venice. Norwegian will connect Dubrovnik with Spanish cities Barcelona and Madrid, Turkish Airlines will start flights from Istanbul to Dubrovnik, and S7 Siberia has a seasonal flight on the Moscow-Dubrovnik route from June 2 to September 25.

Air Berlin will introduce new flights from Berlin and Düsseldorf to Zadar from mid-July to the end of August, while Ryanair will also have a flight from Berlin to Zadar from early April to the end of October. LOT is introducing the Warsaw-Zadar route from late April to early October, and Luxair the Luxembourg-Zadar route from early May to mid-October.

Rijeka, Pula, and Brač Expect More Than Last Year

For Rijeka, from mid-July to the end of August, Air Berlin is introducing new flights from Berlin and Düsseldorf, Air Baltic will operate routes from Copenhagen, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Moscow, and Helsinki from early June to the end of September, while Czech Airlines will introduce the Košice-Rijeka route from early July to the end of August. A new route is also the Rome-Rijeka route, introduced by the carrier Meridiana Fly from late June to mid-September.

For Pula, routes are announced including Norwegian’s London-Pula during the summer season, the East Midlands-Pula route by Thomson, while easyJet is preparing flights that will connect Pula with Paris and Toulouse during the peak season. New routes from Germany to Pula include easyJet’s from Hamburg during July and August and Germanwings from Stuttgart during August, while the carrier Globus Airlines will have flights Moscow-Pula from early May to early October, and Ural Airlines flights Moscow-Pula from May 28 to October 2. There will also be news from Scandinavian countries to Pula, SAS’s Copenhagen-Pula route, Finnair’s and Norwegian’s Helsinki-Pula routes, and Primera Air with the Stockholm-Pula route, while Croatia Airlines will introduce a new Zurich-Pula route on July 13.

For Brač Airport, the news this year is according to current data the Croatia Airlines Graz-Brač route, and additional routes from carriers from Vienna, Linz, and Innsbruck are also announced.