A day of millions at Dubrovnik Airport on July 28, 2016, reports Aerocroatia, as the 1 millionth passenger of the year arrives on the same day easyJet carries its 1 millionth passenger to the destination.
The budget airline industry has transformed access to Croatia in the last decade, and there are now more destinations than ever connected to the main coastal airports of Split and Dubrovnik, while the likes of Zadar, Rijeka and Pula have all benefitted from additional traffic and routes. After a relatively slow start, easyJet has emerged as a key player, second only to Croatia Airlines in terms of traffic to Dubrovnik, for example, and last year alone, it carried more than 600,000 passengers on its Croatian routes.
Those Croatian routes are steadily expanding, with more than 30 Croatian routes offered by easyJet this summer. Dubrovnik is connected to 12 destinations in 9 countries alone, and this week saw a double milestone for the airporrt - the millionth passenger of 2016, as well as the millionth passenger carried by easyJet since it started flights to the Pearl of the Adriatic in 2009.
Dimitris Schoinas, easyJet's Senior Route Manager, said, "We are extremely happy to be reaching our one million passenger milestone at Dubrovnik Airport in beautiful Croatia, which is proving very popular among European holidaymakers. We have come a long way since our first flight to Croatia in 2009, and we are looking forward to the future, as we fly our next million passengers to and from Dubrovnik". Frano Luetić, the Deputy General Manager of Dubrovnik Airport, noted, "We thank easyJet very much for outstanding cooperation during the entire period of its operations into Dubrovnik. We can also confirm the huge contribution easyJet has made to our passenger numbers".
