Zagreb Airport anticipates handling over four million passengers this year with its growth to be fuelled by Ryanair, which based its fourth jet in the city on Sunday and launched five new routes since. Zagreb will be linked to a record-breaking total of 66 destinations over the summer, six of which are domestic and sixty international. This expansion is projected to result in double digit growth throughout the summer months. Capacity on scheduled flights over the summer season, from March 31 until October 26, currently stands at 3.581.722 seats, representing an increase of 13.2%, or an additional 418.009 seats.
Projected capacity growth at Zagreb Airport by month, summer 2024
The airport’s General Manager, Huseying Bahadir Bedir, said, “We started the year off on a positive note by welcoming our new airline partner Pegasus Airlines. This summer, Croatia Airlines is introducing three new routes from Zagreb, to Berlin, Stockholm, and Tirana. Ryanair is expanding its network with five new destinations. Our new long-haul partner T’Way Air will commence flights from Seoul in May, with services to run three times per week until late October. We also anticipate an increase in frequencies on flights from Toronto and Dubai, as well as other destinations”. He added, “If all goes to plan, we expect that this year, for the first time in the airport’s history, we will handle over four million passengers”.
This summer a number of carriers are increasing operations from Zagreb Airport. Apart from the abovementioned Ryanair and Croatia Airlines, they include Iberia, which will grow capacity on its Madrid service by 50% year-on-year, Turkish Airlines which is adding an extra four weekly flights, KLM, which will boost capacity, Lufthansa and Air France, which are increasing their number of weekly flights, as well as Flydubai and Air Serbia, which will grow frequencies from five weekly to daily and from double daily to sixteen weekly respectively. In addition, Qatar Airways is maintaining ten weekly rotations from Doha from the very start of summer, unlike last year when services were increased from seven to ten weekly mid-way through the season. Finally, Air Transat resumes its seasonal Toronto service earlier than last year. In total, twenty airlines will serve Zagreb Airport this summer season.
Zagreb Airport’s largest airlines by capacity share, summer 2024
