TCN announced the big news on Monday that United Airlines will introduce the New York – Dubrovnik – New York route in July this year.
The first flight to Dubrovnik will take off from New York to Dubrovnik Airport on Thursday, July 8 (in 80 days) at 19:20 local time. The night overseas flight to Dubrovnik will take approximately 8 hours and 55 minutes, with the expected landing in Dubrovnik after 10 am.
The B767-300ER aircraft, of which United Airlines has 38 in its fleet, will stay in Dubrovnik for two full hours. Departure from Dubrovnik is scheduled at 12:15 pm. The flight to New York will take a little over 10 hours, with the expected landing in New York at 16:25 local time.
The first departure from Dubrovnik is planned for Saturday, July 10, so the United Airlines plane will stay at Dubrovnik Airport for more than 24 hours.
From the beginning of July to the beginning of October, this well-known American carrier will land in Dubrovnik every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday morning (taking off the day before from the USA).
On 38 return flights between Dubrovnik and New York, United Airlines has 16,264 seats on sale, of which 2,280 seats are available in business class. The cabin configuration in economy class is 2-3-2, while in business class, the seat layout is 2-1-2. You can read more about the new service HERE.
But this isn’t the only United Airlines flight to Croatia in the works.
Namely, United Airlines confirmed to EX-YU Aviation News it is “seeking additional opportunities in Croatia”.
“According to global data provider OAG, in 2019, 298.136 passengers flew indirectly between Croatia and the United States, with a further 17.782 on the Philadelphia – Dubrovnik service, which has since been discontinued. The busiest unserved route was Zagreb – New York, which accounted for 10% of all traffic between the two markets. It was followed by Dubrovnik – New York, which is being launched this summer, then Zagreb – Chicago, Split – New York and Zagreb – Los Angeles,” explained EX-YU Aviation News, and provided the following graphs:
Almost three decades have passed since the New York-Zagreb route operated, and if we hadn’t gone through the coronavirus pandemic, we may have seen this connection already last year, as former Tourism Minister Gari Capelli said two years ago:
“Following the arrangement with American Airlines between Philadelphia and Dubrovnik this summer, which will act as a trial run, we are already in advanced talks for the introduction of a nonstop service from New York to Zagreb. I hope that we will have this route operational next summer”.
So, will United Airlines launch New York-Zagreb flights next? We will have to wait and see.
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