CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1042 times:
Hey, people...
I'm just interested, if some of you have flown on Croatia Airlines flights. If yes, post your experiences, good or bad.
Eventhough it might sound subjective, I think that in last few years they turned into a very nice small airline. Their safety record is perfect, with no accidents in 12 years history.
I find this forum the best place for collecting this information, and I will be more than happy to present the results to my friends in Croatia Airlines...!
CB777 From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 1216 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 992 times:
I have flown on Croatia airlines few times, and I have to say they are a good airline. The flight crew is very nice and professional, the food is good, and they have a new and young fleet of aircrafts. I had the pleasure to experience all their aircraft types. The Aircrafts are!
CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 985 times:
Hey...
There's no 737's anymore. They are all sold out. The whole fleet now is:
4 A319
3 A320
3 ATR42
The rumour is that they want to sell ATR's, and replace them with CRJ's or 328JET aircrafts.
Also, by the end of this year, they will turn options for 3 or 4 more A319/A320's into orders, but it depends (rumour again) of the deal between croatian government and Airbus. Two croatian companies are producing some parts for Airbus aircrafts and CFM engines, and orders for new aircrafts probably depend on the deal between those factories and Airbus.
Also, I belive they want to involve strong croatian aluminium industry into Airbus production.
Croatia Airlines has to add more aircraft to their fleet because of the strong need for more seats during the summer season.
I'll give you the latest numbers...
number of pax in July 2001: 160.000 (company record)
number of flights in 07/01: 2056 (+6%, comp. with 07/00)
The cabin was 67,4% full.
The record was Saturday, 28th of July, with 7600 passengers (cabin 84,2%).
CB777 From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 1216 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 973 times:
Yeah I know the 737-200's are gone, I was stating the aircrafts I flew on with OU. I flew on the 737 the summers of 1994 and 1995. I hope they replace the ATR's with the CRJ's. When will they order these new planes, and when will the ATR's be phased out. If they order more airbus's, will they take delivery of some of them next year in 2002?
CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 958 times:
As I said, replacing ATR's with other aircrafts is just a rumour, but it's more and more obvious that they will actually do it... CRJ will be a very smart replacement.
They need smaller regional aircrafts (hopefully jets) in order to keep the service to smaller island-based airports like Losinj, Brac, Hvar and similar.
The government will invest lot of money into building more of these airports during the next few years, and there will be more need for regional a/c in Croatia.
The smaller airliners (like North Adria) with their Turbolets are not big enough to cover that part of the market, they will allways get the left-overs from CTN.
When it comes to Airbuses, all I know is what I wrote. It was on TV and in newspapers that CTN is going into second phase of renewing the fleet, which considers buying 3 or 4 more airbuses. Don't know the delivery time, but if the same thing happens like with the first airbuses, it will be surprisingly short. If nothing will happen before summer 2002, they will lease BAe-146 again...
Don't know why they call it "renewing", because the whole fleet (except ATR's) is allready renewed.
Hold on for more info soon...
CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 955 times:
Just found out...
According to the contract between Airbus Industrie and Croatia Airlines, 6 airbus aircrafts were delivered between 1998 and 2000. There is an option for 10 more airbus aircrafts!
Stretch 8 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 2561 posts, RR: 19 Reply 7, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 951 times:
I have travelled CTN/OU on several occasions in the last few years, from LHR, FRA and Rome into Split and Dubrovnik. I will be on them again next week from LGW to DUB.
I agree that Croatia is a well run and professional small airline. Once a FA was rude to my wife, but other than that, I have no complaints. I just wish they would quickly add to their fleet, and increase NS service from Split to LHR, FRA, and perhaps CDG. I don't mind connecting in Zagreb. But the service is at different times on different days of the week. The current service also does not match well for trips to and from North America (requiring overnight stays). But overall, a pleasant traveling experience.
Maggs swings, it's a drive deep to left! The Tigers are going to the World Series!!!
CroFlight From Croatia, joined Jul 2001, 275 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 951 times:
As far as I know, they have a deal with Virgin trough LHR and Lufthansa trough FRA and MUC. Those are good connections, without overnight or long waiting...
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