April the 10th, 2025 – Croatia Airlines is set to name a new aircraft in its fleet “Dubrovnik”, as well as finally lower some of its ticket prices that passengers have complained about for many years now.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković and Dubrovnik-Neretva County Prefect Nikola Dobroslavić announced that they had recently met in Zagreb with the management of Croatia Airlines. That meeting was also attended by representatives of the County, the City and the Airport, and at which a solution for flights to Dubrovnik was announced.
croatia airlines ticket prices to be dropped… in some cases
Dubrovački list reports that during the meeting, it was agreed that Croatia Airlines and Dubrovnik’s Ruđer Bošković Airport will develop, in cooperation with the City and the County, a model that will provide a fixed quota of airline tickets for the residents of the County at the most favourable prices. In addition, Croatia Airlines will, according to Franković and Dobroslavić, provide a later afternoon flight from Zagreb to Dubrovnik by this autumn at the latest.
Croatia Airlines is currently expecting the imminent arrival of a new aircraft that will be named “Dubrovnik”, and it will be specially adapted for landing in strong winds, the mayor and the prefect stated. It has been unofficially circulating that that neither the local Dubrovnik authorities nor Dubrovnik Airport are satisfied with the much too costly Croatia Airlines ticket prices on flights between the Pearl of the Adriatic and the City of Zagreb.
ryanair shows croatia airlines up
The above is very logical, and Ryanair’s incredibly low prices have only further alienated Croatia Airlines in the eyes of not only the Croatian travelling population, but beyond it. How could it ever be possible for a passenger to be satisfied with the fact one can travel with Ryanair from Dubrovnik to Vienna for a mere 18 euros, while a flight just up to Zagreb costs over a hundred euros with Croatia Airlines? This becomes even more infuriating given that Croatia Airlines allegedly pays airport taxes in almost the same amount as Ireland’s wildly popular Ryanair.
These complaints have been rolling in from all sides, but especially from down in Dubrovnik for a painfully long time. Croatia Airlines has been shown up repeatedly by Ryanair, and it seems now that has happened enough to actually generate a response from the domestic air carrier. Going forward, it seems that there will be changes made, because Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković clearly indicated in one of his responses on social media that they managed to finally agree with the management of Croatia Airlines for flight prices to be lower in the future.
