Zagreb Airport recorded nearly 390,000 passengers over the first two months of 2020, the company's management said on Tuesday, slightly up from the same period last year.

In January, some 203,000 people passed through the airport, up by 6.2 percent compared to the same month the year before, and in February the airport served around 185,000 travellers, or 2 percent up from February 2019.

In 2019 as a whole, the airport recorded some 3.4 million passengers, or 3 percent up from 2019.

“We have seen a positive start to 2020 so far. However, we are also carefully monitoring the situation around the coronavirus outbreak, which certainly has a negative effect felt in Zagreb’s air traffic. We are regularly in contact with all airline companies,” the company was quoted as saying by state agency Hina.

Three new destinations served from Zagreb will be introduced by end of 2020, including new direct routes to Sofia in Bulgaria and Podgorica in Montenegro, operated by Croatia Airlines starting from May, and in June Ukrainian charter airline Windrose Airlines will start flying to Zagreb from Ukraine’s capital Kiev.

Also in May, Air France will add a second daily flight to Paris, and British Airways announced four more weekly flights to Zagreb from London’s Heathrow Airport, for a total of 11 flights every week. Air Serbia will also add two more weekly flights connecting Belgrade and Zagreb, which will make it 13 flights a week on that route.

Greece’s Aegean Airlines plans to introduce a larger aircraft on its Zagreb-Athens route, and Croatia Airlines also plans to increase capacity on routes serving Brussels, Skopje, and Copenhagen.

“We are also negotiating with two new airline companies from Africa and Asia, interested to operate chartered flights to Zagreb during the 2020 summer schedule,” the airport said, without divulging any more details.

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