Low cost carrier Ryanair is expected to resume operations from Zagreb to Manchester, Podgorica and Sofia next summer, as well as increase frequencies on a number of destinations based on its preliminary plans for 2024. The three abovementioned routes are to be suspended at the end of this month, however, the low cost airline plans to resume flights between the Croatian capital and Manchester on June 1 with a two weekly service each Tuesday and Saturday, to Podgorica, also on June 1, with three weekly rotations on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, as well as to the Bulgarian capital starting June 3, twice per week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Tickets for the three routes are yet to be put on sale as the carrier continues to work on its 2024 summer season timetable. On the other hand, operations to Bratislava, which are to be suspended next week ahead of schedule, are so far not planned for resumption next year.
The return of the trio of routes is in line with Ryanair’s recent announcement that it will operate more destinations out of Zagreb during the summer of 2024 than it did this year. “It’s all about direct connections. We had close to thirty destinations from Zagreb this summer, 27 to be more precise, and we will try to get that to over thirty for summer 2024. We are satisfied with conditions in Zagreb, although any increase in fees affects costs, which we try to minimise”, Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer, Jason McGuinness, said recently. The budget airline anticipates handling 1.2 million passengers on its Zagreb flights this year.
Ryanair also plans to boost a select number of its existing Zagreb routes next summer when compared to this year. They include Charleroi, increasing from six weekly to daily, Rome Fiumicino from four to five weekly, Gothenburg from two to three weekly, Malaga from two to four weekly, Malta from four weekly to daily, Weeze from three to four weekly and London Stansted from daily to nine weekly. The frequency additions are expected to take affect from June 1 as well, although changes remain possible as these are still the airline’s preliminary plans for next year. Ryanair’s busiest route out of its Zagreb base is London Stansted, with the airline handling more passengers this year than its competitors Croatia Airlines and British Airways combined on their London Heathrow service.
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