January 20, 2020 – A brand new VIP lounge has opened at Zagreb Airport, which will be especially important during Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Zagreb Airport recorded another busy year in 2019, handling 3,435,531 passengers in total, which is up 3 percent on the year before. After a slow summer, the capital city airport came back in the winter for a solid December, where it registered an increase of 7.6 percent. However, at the end of the year, Zagreb and Split were just 133,601 travelers apart.
Ex Yu Aviation reported that the collapse of Adria Airways certainly played a part in the airport’s growth during the last three months of 2019 as travelers were redirected from Ljubljana to Zagreb.
However, another big player is the fact that Croatia has taken over the presidency of the Council of the European Union, which it will hold over the next six months.
Keeping this in mind, the airport has opened a new VIP lounge, which will serve to ease the experience of travelers.
“A new VIP lounge for guests that arrive on regular flights was opened at the Zagreb Airport’s terminal, as well as the lounge for private flights within the terminal of general aviation. These new lounges will be especially important in the next six months, during the Republic of Croatia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union. This pleasant ambient, spreading over two locations with a total area of 900 square meters, will provide a place for relaxation, meetings and media conferences for many officials,” Zagreb Airport wrote on its Facebook.
The airport also provided a gallery of photos by Josip Škof, which you can find below.
Zagreb Airport should register another record year, as Air France announced it would double its service to the capital, and Croatia Airlines plans to launch new services between Zagreb and Podgorica and Tirana, to name a few.
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