August 2, 2020 -  Split Airport hit the record for weekend traffic this year, as the first two days of August brought over 30,000 passengers.

Croatian Aviation reports that Split Airport this weekend (August 1 and 2) had as many as 165 landings and takeoffs of commercial aircraft, which carried more than 30,000 passengers in both directions. This is record traffic this summer season for Split Airport. Although it is a relatively large number, for comparison, it was only 35% of passengers compared to the same weekend last year.

The head of reception and departure of passengers at Split Airport, Mate Melvan, said that in the first seven months of this year, the turnover was about 277 thousand passengers, while in August, the expected traffic is over 150 thousand passengers, which, given the situation, is a very good result.

The first two weekends in August have been one of the busiest in the summer season for years, so good traffic is expected next weekend as well. It should be noted that Split airport is currently directly connected to as many as 60 European destinations, and only this weekend planes from 47 destinations landed in Split.

British easyJet had the most lines to Split this weekend, 14 of them from the following cities: Basel, Naples, Paris, Berlin, London Gatwick, London Stansted, London Luton, Bristol, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris Orly, Geneva, Manchester and Belfast. Many lines were in traffic several times a day. Thus, easyJet had 29 landings and as many takeoffs from Split in just two days for a total of 58 flights!

This is followed by the national airline, Croatia Airlines, which flew from Split to Zagreb, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Paris, Copenhagen, Rome, Vienna, Lyon, Berlin and London this weekend. A total of 12 destinations and 44 flights operated.

When looking at other airlines; Eurowings had 6 lines to Germany, Jet2 had 5 lines to Great Britain, SAS had 3 lines to Scandinavia, as well as LOT, Transavia, Lufthansa, Vueling, SAS, Luxair, KLM, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Norwegian, Edelweiss, Air France , Ryanair, Windrose, Smartwings, Condor, Air Explore, Air Serbia, Wizz Air, etc.

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July 30, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split Airport.

Croatian Aviation reports that from the beginning of August, Split Airport will be connected to Munich as many as 13 times a week, which is a larger number of flights compared to July this year.

At the beginning of August, Split Airport will have 13 weekly direct flights to Munich Airport, and Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines will continue to operate on the routes.

Direct flights from Split from August 1 are available every day of the week, mostly in the morning, which allows passengers from Split numerous connections via this German airport. Croatia Airlines planes depart from Split in the morning, at 7:55 am, arriving in Munich at 9:30 am. DashQ400 aircraft with a capacity of 76 passengers in the Croatia Airlines fleet will continue to operate on the route.

Also, the company offers a second flight a day every Saturday, in the evening, departing from Split at 5 pm, and arriving in Munich at 6:30 pm.

In addition to Croatia Airlines, German airline Lufthansa will continue to operate on the route through August, five times a week (every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday), which we reported earlier.

Namely, through August, Lufthansa will operate from Munich and Frankfurt to Croatia according to the following schedule:

Frankfurt - Dubrovnik, 3 times a week (every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday)

Munich - Dubrovnik, 5 times a week (every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

Frankfurt - Split, 4 times a week (every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

Munich - Split, 5 times a week (every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)

Frankfurt - Pula, 3 times a week (every Monday, Friday and Saturday)

Munich - Pula, 2 times a week (every Saturday and Sunday)

Frankfurt - Zadar, 3 times a week (every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday)

Munich - Zadar, 1 per week (every Saturday)

Munich - Zagreb, 4 times a week (every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday).

You can check the rest of Lufthansa's August schedule for Croatia HERE.

The mentioned airlines offer two flights a day every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, one flight a day on Mondays and Wednesdays, and even three daily flights every Saturday in August.

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July 25, 2020 - At the Split Airport and Ferry Port this weekend, which is the fourth weekend in July, excellent results are expected, which are significantly better than what we had hoped for in early June.

Slobodna Dalmacija reports that after a great last weekend, about 50,000 passengers and 12,000 vehicles are expected at the ferry port by Monday, while 135 aircraft with about 25,000 passengers are expected at the airport this weekend. The upcoming weekend is the peak of the season, and passenger numbers are slowly but surely growing.

"Last weekend was really good, a larger number of passengers extended to Monday and Tuesday, we only had a little calm on Wednesday. But already this Friday morning, the crowds started.

We are approaching 50 percent of last year's season, last weekend we had extra lines, if everything goes according to plan it will be the same this weekend," confirmed Jelena Ivulic, head of the Jadrolinija agency in Split, emphasizing that the most sought after destination is still Supetar, but that there are crowds for Hvar, Vis, and Solta.

Registrations are mostly foreign, mostly Germans, but there are also Austrians, Czechs, Slovaks, and Poles.

Pero Bilas, assistant director of Split Airport, says that, given the situation, they are very satisfied with the current results.

"This weekend we expect 135 aircraft, of which 105 are commercial and 30 are in a business arrangement. We anticipate about 25,000 passengers in the two days ahead. We operate with 35 different airlines, we are connected to about sixty European destinations, and the Germans are in the lead.

Passengers from eight German destinations come to us, but Split is loved and despite the pandemic, young people come from Scandinavia, Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium... We no longer make comparisons with last season, but if we compare with the previous month when we had 27 thousand passengers in the whole month, and now we will achieve that in one weekend, then it is clear that we are doing a good job," concludes Bilas.

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July 19, 2020 - This weekend, 60,000 passengers from many destinations are expected to arrive at the Split Airport and city port, which is 30 and 45 percent of traffic, respectively, compared to the same weekend last year.

Net.hr reports that Jelena Ivulic from Jadrolinija in Split said that 40,000 passengers with ten thousand vehicles will enter the city port across the three weekend days, that they are at 45 percent compared to the same weekend last year and that their numbers are increasing. The interest of passengers to go to and from islands is not waning, so this weekend they organized 12 regular lines to Brac. As an announcement of a good weekend, on Friday, there were two extraordinary lines for Supetar.

"This weekend, we will still have three regular lines to Vis, two to Vela Luka, six to Stari Grad, and the same number to Solta. We also offer three state catamaran lines for Hvar, and as of Friday, two more commercial lines. In any case, we are rising as far as traffic is concerned," Ivulic said.

As for the airport, 20,000 passengers are expected on Saturday and Sunday, who will land or take off in 135 planes. The head of the Reception and Dispatch Service at Split Airport, Mate Melvan, says that among those planes that will touchdown at the Resnik runway, 35 are private. All these planes come and go to a total of fifty European destinations.

Melvan said that their turnover this weekend is 30 percent compared to last year, but in total, they expect that July will have an average of 20 to 25 percent of 2019.

"The first weekend in July we had ten thousand, the second weekend 15 thousand, and now this third weekend, we already have 20 thousand passengers. You can see the growth trend because our traffic is increasing every weekend. We can see that the number of passengers is rising from the data that we had 26,150 passengers in the whole of June, and only in these two weekend days we will have 20 thousand," claims Melvan.

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July 17, 2020 - Business troubles caused by the coronavirus will bring considerable annual losses to airlines, and 2020 will be remembered as “the worst year in the history of the aviation industry”. The crisis has not bypassed Split Airport in Kastela, where it is estimated that this year's losses at the end of the year will reach 2 million fewer passengers compared to 2019, when more than three million passengers landed at that airport.

Slobodna Dalmacija reports that the first 6 months of this year, Split Airport had a turnover of 108,000  passengers, while in the first half of last year, 1.2 million passengers were recorded. If we compare the month of June, the decline is about half a million passengers. This year, 26,000 passengers were realized, while last year, 513,000 passed through Split Airport.

"Until July 13, we had a turnover of 55,000 passengers, and by the end, we expect another 65,000, which at the end of the month will amount to a total of about 120,000 passengers. In the first 6 months of this year, we recorded a loss of about a million passengers, and we will lose that much more in July and August. So we are in the red about 2 million passengers," said Mate Melvan of Split Airport.

When it comes to companies that fly to Split Airport, the situation is somewhat better, but the problem, they point out, is that there are no passengers.

"Unlike last year when we were connected with about 58 global companies, this year we are connected with 30. I must emphasize that only ten of these thirty companies last year accounted for 90 percent of our total turnover last year. I think we are well covered in this regard, but the problem is that there are no passengers. People just don’t travel by plane and that’s where the whole problem lies. Last weekend, our port had the highest traffic, there are all the main carriers and there are no obstacles and problems," concludes Melvan.

It is interesting to note that in April this year, there were only six passengers, and in the same month last year, the traffic was more than 156,000 passengers.

Vienna, Warsaw, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Riga are just some of the twenty or so airports that are currently connected to Dubrovnik. However, the "real season" should start soon, when flights from Great Britain begin. British Airways (from London - three times a week), Jet2.com, EasyJet and others are establishing lines with certainly the most important tourist market for Dubrovnik. Low-cost carrier Ryanair is already flying on a route to Dublin, Ireland, and other airlines have decided to resume in an attempt to at least partially recoup losses in recent months.

Despite everything, by the end of July, Dubrovnik should be connected with more than 30 European cities. Compared to the current situation, traffic is expected to triple by the end of August. Thus, according to the announcements, there should be as many as 140 landings and take-offs at Dubrovnik Airport on the first weekend of August.

"It all depends on the epidemiological situation both in our country and in the countries from which our guests come. Most of the airlines we have worked with before are coming back, new ones are coming, and some have failed due to the corona crisis. We have to be optimistic because the situation is moving as we predicted," says the director of Dubrovnik Airport Frano Luetic.

Despite the unprecedented crisis for air traffic around the world, the airport is proud to highlight this week's agreement on the intercontinental connection of Dubrovnik and Dubai with Flydubai, and the start of flights from new destinations in Kyiv, Ukraine, Budapest, and Vilnius in Lithuania.

However, even with such an increase, the airport will find it difficult to achieve 30 percent of last year's traffic in July and August, which is mostly at the level of total air traffic worldwide. Namely, this year, up to thirty international planes a day will land at the airport in Cilipi during July and August, while in the same period last year there were even more than sixty.

The semi-annual number of passengers at the end of June last year was 1,059,684, while this year's number was 87,026 passengers in the same period, which is just over eight percent. Also, in June 2019, there were 415,876 passengers, while this year there were 10,592, which means that with the greatest optimism this year, it is difficult to expect more than half a million passengers at the airport.

"The Dubrovnik area and everything that gravitates to our airport are much smaller than the often mentioned area of ​​Split and their airport, which currently has more planes and passengers than us. One should know that Split gravitates to more than half a million local people, and their tourist capacities range from Zadar to the Neretva, and from numerous islands to the deep hinterland and Medjugorje. Our area is cramped and has less than a hundred thousand people, without the roads that Split has and with less tourist capacity. We are also oriented towards guests of higher purchasing power given that we have a lot more five-star hotels. And that is the reason why low-cost carriers opt more for Split because such is the offer and the purchasing power of passengers," says Luetic.

Last weekend, 3870 passengers passed through Zadar Airport. Compared to last year, the turnover is lower by 70 percent, and judging by the forecasts, these figures will be transferred to all of July. Namely, the expected weekly traffic in July is about 60 commercial aircraft, or 120 rotations, while during August, 70 commercial aircraft or 140 arrivals and departures are expected.

"Although it is difficult and ungrateful to give any forecasts at the moment, we expect about 33,000 passengers in July, and about 60 thousand in August. By the end of the year, the total traffic should reach the number of about 150,000 passengers, which is 19 percent of last year's result," said the management of Zadar Airport about the season which, if corona had not happened, should have been a record.

Last year, the traffic at Zadar Airport increased by 30 percent compared to 2018, and they welcomed the end of the year with more than 800,000 passengers. On the wings of these results, which were the best in the history of Zadar airport, this summer was greeted even more ambitiously.

This is best illustrated by the projections of the largest low-cost carrier in the world, Ryanair, which announced in early 2020 that it will carry a total of 670,000 passengers on 30 lines and its base in Zadar this season, 50 percent more than a year earlier. Instead, Ryanair currently flies on only ten routes, and the base, which was supposed to house three aircraft with staff for eight months, has been postponed until the summer of 2021.

In addition to Ryanair, whose share in traffic is by far the largest with almost 70 percent, ten other airlines are currently flying to Zadar Airport, connecting Zemunik with 29 European destinations.

Whether that number will be maintained or increased next season, no one currently wants to predict. Because it’s hard to say what will be next month, let alone next summer.

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July 15, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split Airport.

Croatian Aviation reports that easyJet announced a new set of lines to Split. After the company launched the first six lines to Croatia, which started operating from the beginning of July, the low-cost airline announced the start of operations on another 7 lines.

As we announced earlier, easyJet launched six lines to Split at the beginning of July, which you can read more about it HERE.

From the end of July, the company will significantly increase the number of routes to Split Airport, by introducing another 7 international routes, which will allow easyJet to operate to as many as 13 international destinations from Split. Traffic is established on the following lines:

Lyon - Split line is introduced from July 20, twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays,

Bristol - Split is introduced from July 21, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays,

London Gatwick - Split line is introduced, from July 18, five times a week (every day except Monday and Friday),

Mila - Split line is introduced from July 22, twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays,

Naples - Split is introduced from July 24, six times a week (every day except Wednesday),

Paris Orly - Split line is introduced from July 24, twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays,

Manchester - Split line is introduced from July 25, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Also, specific routes that are already in operation will have an increase in the number of weekly flights:

Amsterdam - Split will operate five times a week, instead of two times,

Geneva - Split will run three times a week, instead of once.

This is still a significantly smaller number of weekly flights and routes to Split compared to the 2019 season, but given the situation, we can be satisfied with this flight schedule.

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July 13, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split Airport.

Croatian Aviation reports that the Irish national company Aer Lingus, which normally operates in the summer flight schedule to Dubrovnik, Split and Pula, has announced the launch of only one route to Croatia.

In the summer flight schedule, Aer Lingus mainly starts traffic to Croatia at the beginning of April, which was not possible this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. As the airline has announced, the Dublin - Pula line will not be in operation in July, but sales are open from mid-August, which still leaves the possibility of a complete cancellation of this line for this summer season.

It is the same with Dubrovnik - the company has been holding a line from Dublin since mid-August, as well as a new line from Cork, but the chances of starting traffic this summer season are relatively small.

The only line to Croatia that has been confirmed and should start operating soon is the Dublin - Split line, which should operate three times a week from July 20, every Monday, Wednesday and Sunday, on an A320 aircraft with a capacity of 174 passengers.

It only makes sense, as on Sunday, July 12, Split Airport recorded as many as 70 operations of commercial aircraft on domestic and international routes to this airport, as reported by Croatian Aviation.

Traffic to Split Airport was established by a number of companies, some a little earlier, back in June, but most carriers returned in early July. Of course, as it usually happens, the biggest traffic is recorded during the weekend, and this airport alone recorded over 70 landings and take-offs over the weekend.

During Sunday morning, several companies landed in Split: LOT from Katowice, easyJet from Basel and London, Scandinavian Airlines from Stockholm and Copenhagen, Croatia Airlines from Frankfurt, Lufthansa from Munich, KLM from Amsterdam, Luxair from Luxembourg and Eurowings and Transavia from Hamburg and Rotterdam.

On Sunday afternoon, British Airways, Condor, Smartwings, Austrian Airlines, Air Serbia, Transavia, Croatia Airlines, LOT, EasyJet, Windrose Airlines, Laudamotion and Lufthansa landed at the airport from numerous European destinations.

On Sunday evening, there were several more lines to Split from the following cities: Amsterdam (EasyJet and KLM), Paris (Transavia), Rome (Croatia Airlines), Dusseldorf and Cologne (Eurowings), Oslo (SAS), Zurich (Edelweiss) and London ( Wizz Air).

In total, Split had 35 lines to as many as 25 European destinations last week. Only a larger number of destinations can be expected every following week, especially until the end of August, when the peak of the season lasts.

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July 13, 2020 - The Split Airport and Ferry Port recorded around 45,000 passengers last weekend, which is this year's record for weekend tourist traffic.

"Saturday and Sunday until midnight at Split Airport, we will have 125 landings and as many takeoffs of commercial and private aircraft, which will carry about 15,000 passengers on arrival and departure, which in the circumstances of the coronavirus epidemic is the biggest traffic during one weekend this year," said Mate Melvan, Head of the Reception and Dispatch Service at Split Airport, on Sunday for Slobodna Dalmacija.

That’s about 25 percent of the turnover achieved compared to the second weekend in July last year, but given the epidemiological circumstances, that’s a positive trend, he estimated. Recall, in the first six months of this year, Split Airport generated only 10 percent of traffic compared to last year's first half of the year, he added.

"In July this year, 30 airlines flying on 45 international routes have been hired at Split Airport so far," Melvan said.

He expects that the number of airlines and the number of passengers at Split Airport will increase by the end of July.

"We believe that by the end of July about 150,000 passengers will be passing through our Airport, which is about one-fifth of last year's total traffic in July, but given the circumstances, we are satisfied with this kind of traffic. In fact, we can say that we have a ‘new normal season’ in epidemiological circumstances,"  Melvan pointed out.

He reminded us that at Split Airport, it is obligatory to wear protective masks, as well as to practice social distance and use hand sanitizer. He points out that guests who come to Split Airport are disciplined and adhere to these epidemiological measures.

The head of Jadrolinija in Split, Jelena Ivulic, said that about 30,000 passengers and 7,000 vehicles would run through Split's Ferry Port last weekend, which is about 40 percent of the traffic compared to last year's second weekend in July, but a record in this year's weekend traffic.

"Guests from Slovenia and Germany have the most traffic through Split's Ferry Port this weekend, and most travel to the island of Brac, so on Saturday we had to introduce two extraordinary ferry lines to Supetar on Brac," Ivulic said on Sunday.

She also assessed that, given the epidemiological circumstances, the traffic in Split's Ferry Port is satisfactory.

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July 4, 2020 -  Tourists are coming back to Split, as the Airport anticipates around 10,000 passengers this weekend. 

Split Airport is recording its first major traffic since the corona crisis. This weekend, 100 planes and more than 10 thousand passengers are expected in Resnik, Dalmatinski Portal has learned from Mate Melvan, the head of the Reception and Dispatch Service.

"The figures show that the heart of the season has begun. It will, of course, be different than we are used to. We expect 20-25 percent less traffic in July compared to the same month last year," says Melvan.

Currently, 26 airlines with 38 direct destinations fly to Split. Just for comparison, on the first weekend in July last year, 50,000 passengers passed through Resnik.

The entire previous month, Split Airport had 26 thousand passengers, and in the first half of the year, there were 108 thousand passengers. This is as much as 90 percent less traffic than in the first half of 2019, which is not surprising because in April, there were only six passengers, and in May - 2,770.

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June 28, 2020 - The latest news from around Croatia’s airports for flights to Croatia with updates from Split Airport. 

Croatian Aviation reports that at the beginning of July, easyJet will launch 6 lines to Croatia. Although this well-known low-budget airline operates in the summer flight schedule to Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Pula, currently only specific routes from and to Split Airport have been confirmed.

Given the pandemic, the company has so far not launched international routes to Croatian destinations. Although you can buy tickets for many destinations and various dates on the company's website, Croatian Aviation recommends that you read the article until the end and advises you to purchase tickets by mid-July on the lines listed in the text.

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At the beginning of July, easyJet will launch only 6 lines to Croatia, all to Split Airport. The company currently has almost 50 lines on sale from four Croatian airports: Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Pula.

In order to avoid possible inconveniences in the form of flight cancellations, you can find the confirmed flight schedule below, because, on all other routes, there is the possibility of weekly flight reductions or cancellations.

According to the current announcement, easyJet will operate on the following lines from the beginning of July:

Split - Amsterdam, from July 4, 2 times a week, on Saturdays and Sundays,

Split - Basel, from July 4, 4 times a week, Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays,

Split - Berlin, from July 3, daily,

Split - Geneva, from July 4, once a week, on Saturdays,

Split - London (Luton), from July 1, daily,

Split - Paris (Charles De Gaulle), from July 8, twice a week, Wednesdays and Sundays.

The low-cost carrier currently confirms the flight schedule for 14 days, so all flights from mid-July are questionable. The company will almost certainly continue to operate on these routes after mid-July, and the number of weekly flights is likely to increase, but it is advised you purchase a ticket for the travel period after mid-July on the days of the week listed for each line.

As always, you should also check the restrictions of the country you are traveling to before traveling.