Air Croatia si appresta ad aprire voli da Zagabria per FCO e MXP?

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Nuova start-up Air Croatia si appresta ad aprire voli da Zagabria per FCO e MXP?

Air Croatia anticipates Christmas launch

Start-up Air Croatia will make a second attempt at launching services this year, with flights planned to begin during the Christmas holidays. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, Air Croatia says it intends to launch flights from Zagreb to Rome Fiumicino Airport, Milan Malpensa, Prague and Dusseldorf “starting from Christmas”. Services to Bucharest, Helsinki, Stockholm and Belgrade “are aimed to start during Easter 2015”, it added. Notably, Air Croatia aims to link Zagreb with unserved markets which hold great potential, while at the same time avoiding direct competition with its rivals.

Air Croatia originally planed to launch flights from Gothenburg to Zagreb, Zadar and Split this June with a wet leased ČSA Czech Airlines Airbus A319. At the time, the start-up told EX-YU Aviation News, “Those flights have been postponed since May due to a low amount of bookings and some technical problems connecting our booking system and flights to many of the major search engines, which made it too risky and difficult to sell only through our website”. Air Croatia also hoped to set up flights from Zagreb to Tel Aviv from June through to September, as well as services from Southern Italy to Dubrovnik in cooperation with Italian tour operators. However, all of these have been put on hold.

Most of the newly announced services, which Air Croatia aims to launch at Christmas time, were served from Zagreb at one point or another. The Italian national carrier Alitalia operated up to two daily flights to Zagreb prior to its financial problems in late 2008. Since, there have been no direct flights between Zagreb and Italy with Croatia Airlines maintaining services to Rome via Dubrovnik and Split. Furthermore, ČSA suspended flights from Prague to Zagreb in 2012 after relegating the route to its regional partner Central Connect Airlines (CCA). Shortly after, CCA declared bankruptcy and ceased all operations. There have been no direct flights between the Croatian and Czech capitals since. Despite a substantial number of flights between Zagreb and Germany, there is no direct link between the Croatian capital and Dusseldorf. According to Air Croatia's website, the start-up will reveal more information on its future destination network next Monday.

http://exyuaviation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/air-croatia-anticipates-christmas-launch.html

 

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Aggiornamento - ci riprovano.
Pare che adesso i voli verranno operati non piu' da Estonian Air ma da Denim Air con ATR42 e partiranno finalmente a breve.
L'articolo di ex-yu aviation contiene qualche inesattezza, quindi da prendere con le pinze:

Newcomers Air Croatia and Sea Air say they are ready to launch flights from Zagreb and Osijek, respectively, this summer season. Following several delays, Air Croatia, which is a Swedish, Cypriot and Israeli joint venture, will inaugurate services from Zagreb this Thursday. The company’s flights from the Croatian capital to Budapest, Prague, Rome and Milan, will be operated by Dutch-based Denim Air. “Denim Air has requested and received slots at all airports, including Zagreb, and there will be no more cancellations or delays for any flights in April or at any other later date”, Air Croatia’s Mehmet Akif Borucu says. An ATR 42 aircraft, which has the capacity to seat up to 52 passengers, will operate the planned services.

Denim Air, which is running the flights on behalf of Air Croatia, will launch operations on April 2. Originally, flights were to be inaugurated last summer, but were delayed until December before being pushed back to March and then again to April this year. At first the company planned to wet lease a ČSA Czech Airlines Airbus A319 and then an Estonian Air Embraer E170 jet, but only recently decided to switch to Denim Air instead. Air Croatia, based in the United Kingdom, has been selling tickets for its flights for several months. It faces no direct competition on any of its routes and will be the only one to offer nonstop flights between Zagreb and Rome. Croatia Airlines currently operates services to the Italian capital via Dubrovnik and Split, depending on the departure day.

 

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Aggiornamento - ci riprovano.
Pare che adesso i voli verranno operati non piu' da Estonian Air ma da Denim Air con ATR42 e partiranno finalmente a breve.
L'articolo di ex-yu aviation contiene qualche inesattezza, quindi da prendere con le pinze:

Oggi volo inauguale da MXP con atr42, nessuno del forum che ci fa un TR? io impossibiltato per i prossimi mesi

 

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Air Croatia suspends operations until June

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Air Croatia (Zagreb) will suspend operations with effect from tonight, Thursday, April 23, as a result of financial constraints. In a statement to ch-aviation, the carrier said the firm responsible for processing their credit-card transactions (name supplied) had failed to remit funds to the airline leading to its inability to settle dues with Denim Air ACMI (J7, Amsterdam), the firm from which Air Croatia has chartered an ATR42.

The virtual carrier says flights have been suspended until June 1 to allow it time to sort out its finances and to find another ACMI/charter operator.

Beset with problems since its establishment in 2013, the carrier eventually launched flights earlier this month from Zagreb to Budapest, Milan Malpensa, Prague, and Rome Fiumicino.

http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/36890-air-croatia-suspends-operations-until-june

 

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Metto qua, nuova livrea per Croatia:

Cambia poco/pochissimo, in essenza scompare soltanto il blu della 'pancia' (forse anche il logo, di dimensioni maggiori rispetto a quello della livrea precedente).

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