March the 12th, 2025 – Ryanair, Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines are the companies which have boosted the number of Croatian flights on the market this year.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Sinisa Malus writes, Croatia can confidently expect another excellent tourist season this year. Ryanair, Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines have contributed to the most Croatian flights in 2025.

The aforementioned Irish, German and Croatian carriers will add the most capacity to the Croatian market this summer compared to 2024, while easyJet, Volotea and airBaltic will reduce their operations to and from the country the most.

the wildly popular ryanair dominates zagreb

Ryanair will dominate its Zagreb base with an impressive 4,065,726 seats, almost twice as many as the national carrier, Croatia Airlines, and at much cheaper prices. The Irish carrier’s incredible growth is driven by new routes from the Croatian airports of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, as well as increased frequencies on existing routes, according to Ex-Yu Aviation News. Ryanair will boast 297,694 additional seats on Croatian flights compared to last year, including an additional 214,836 at its base in Zagreb alone. It will also place an additional 49,336 seats down in Dubrovnik and an additional 2,894 seats at its base in Zadar, which is the largest in all of Croatia during the summer.

Ryanair is maintaining the same number of flights to destinations such as Alicante, Basel, Dublin, London, Oslo, Manchester, Gothenburg and other popular European destinations. The only destination that has been discontinued this year is Podgorica down in Montenegro, which had four flights per week last summer.

croatia airlines

Croatia Airlines will have 2,238,389 seats available for the Croatian market this summer season, an increase of 321,804. It will add the most capacity in terms of Croatian flights this year, which is only logical. It comes as a result of launching five new routes from Zagreb and introducing additional Airbus A220 aircraft to its existing fleet.

Unable to get remotely close to Ryanair when it comes to pricing, Croatia Airlines expects to continue to generate losses in the short term for another reason. That is the result of switching to a fleet consisting exclusively of Airbus A220s, the costs of which increased last year. However, the domestic carrier is confident that the change will produce overall savings in the long term. Last year, it recorded a staggering net loss of almost twenty million euros.

germany’s old faithful – lufthansa

Like Ryanair, Germany’s Lufthansa is one of the top three fastest-growing airlines when it comes to Croatian flights. 2025 will see it bring in an increase of 85,728 seats, seeing its total rise to 519,490. The airline attributes its growth to increased frequencies on its routes to Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar and Pula this summer.

easyjet dwindles…

On the other hand, easyJet, the third largest airline for Croatian flights on the market, will see the largest capacity reduction during the summer. It plans to reduce its available seats by a massive 46,018 to a total of 1,422,716. This decline is mainly a result of the airline suspending all operations to Rijeka and cancelling one route each to Dubrovnik and Pula.
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