Low cost carrier Ryanair has opened its base in Dubrovnik this week by stationing two Boieng 737 MAX 8 aircraft at Rudjer Bošković Airport, with plans to serve the city over the winter months as well. It is the airline’s third base in Croatia, complementing Zagreb and Zadar. As a result, Ryanair is in the process of introducing seventeen new routes out of Dubrovnik and will serve a total of nineteen destinations from the city this summer season. The airline has confirmed it plans to maintain operations out of Dubrovnik during the 2024/25 winter season as well, with at least three routes to run on a year-round basis, one of which will be London Stansted, although the base itself will be operational only during the summer. Vienna and Dublin are expected to be the remaining two year-round destinations.
Commenting on Ryanair’s arrival, Dubrovnik Airport’s General Manager, Viktor Šober, said, “We are very pleased that Ryanair has opened its new base at Rudjer Bošković Airport with two of its aircraft, and I will use the opportunity to thank all our employees who have been actively working on this project in recent months and have done a superb job in cooperating with Ryanair. Now we have a challenging season ahead of us, which will probably be a record breaking one, and we have a lot of work ahead of us”. For its part, Ryanair said, “Building on our bases in Zagreb and Zadar, Ryanair’s new base in Dubrovnik represents a further investment of 200 million US dollars, or a total of 800 million across the three bases in Croatia, creating more than sixty high-paying jobs for pilots and cabin crew, while also supporting more than 500 local jobs in Dubrovnik through our contribution to year-round tourism and connectivity”.
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| Ryanair’s Dubrovnik 2024 summer network |
This summer, Ryanair has 450.000 seats available on its Dubrovnik flights, operating 54 weekly rotations from the Croatian coastal city. It represents a significant increase on the two seasonal routes the airline maintained from the airport over the past few years – Dublin and Vienna. Dubrovnik Airport handled 75.370 passengers during the first quarter of 2024, down 8.3% on the same period last year, as well as a decrease of 36.1% on the pre-pandemic 2019.
