Of a total of 8,317 Croatia Airlines flights, 1.7 percent of them have been cancelled this year.
As Josip Bohutinski/Poslovni Dnevnik/VL writes on the 17th of May, 2018, Croatia Airlines has cancelled a total of 180 flights this year alone, of which 106 of them have been cancelled due to extended aircraft maintenance.
In addition to cancelling flights due to the lack of available aircraft, Croatia Airlines has been forced to lease aircraft from other companies in the short term, owing to that fact, 106 flights have been carried out with leased planes.
Given that the company has no other Dash currently in operation and its return to ”work” is expected in the next eight days, Croatia Airlines will lease another 34 flights during the aforementioned period. The national flag carrier says that the number of cancelled flights and flights made on short-haul aircraft at this time of year is twice as high as it was last year, but apparently at the same level as it was back in 2016.
Croatia Airlines has also stated that they will have fifty days of delay in maintaining their twelve aircraft and that these delays are normal as far as aviation is concerned.
How much the previously mentioned short-term aircraft leases will actually end up costing the company was information Croatia Airlines’ management expressed no particular desire to reveal, but they did go as far as to admit that these flights are currently unprofitable, emphasising the fact that they thought it was more important to offer their services to their passengers.
