Zagreb Airport will be connected to 50 other destinations during the wintertime schedule - five in domestic and 45 in international traffic - state agency Hina reported, citing a press release from the airport, without explaining whether this is in any way unusual.

The national flag carrier, Croatia Airlines, announced that in the 2021-22 winter flight schedule, they would operate routes from Zagreb to four other Croatian cities – Split, Dubrovnik, Pula, and Zadar; as well as 13 cities abroad, which include Amsterdam, Vienna, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, London, Munich, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, Skopje and Zurich.

As of 16 December, German low cost carrier Eurowings also plans to start operating flights on the Zagreb-Prague route.

Other airlines providing regular flight services to and from Zagreb include Air France, operating flights to Paris, Austrian Airlines, operating flights to Vienna, Aeroflot, Nordwind, IKAR, and Azur Air with flights to Moscow, Air Serbia, operating flights to Belgrade, and British Airways with flights to London. KLM covers the route to Amsterdam, Lufthansa the route to Frankfurt, LOT operates flights to Warsaw, Turkish Airlines to Istanbul, Trade Air to Osijek, Qatar Airways to Doha, and Windrose Airlines covers the route to Kiev.

A total of 19 airlines will be connecting Zagreb with five destinations in Croatia and 45 cities abroad, in 28 countries.

“We believe that such a good connection with Europe, the Middle East, and indirectly with other destinations across the world, will contribute to a significant rise in the number of passengers and further confirm Zagreb as a true city break destination,” state agency Hina reported an unsigned press release as saying.

“After several months of decline and stagnation of traffic due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Zagreb’s Franjo Tudjman Airport completely recovered in the 2021 summer flight schedule compared to the previous year through a significant increase in the number of passengers, and in the number of destinations, opening new routes and weekly increasing the number of flights on existing routes,” Hina said.

In the last week of the summer flight schedule, in early September, Ryanair launched nine new routes as part of an announced expansion and the addition of a second aircraft to its Zagreb hub. Ryanair has announced the launch of nine new routes in December 2021, serving Dublin, Manchester, Eindhoven, Basel, Malaga, Pafos, Malta, Naples, and Thessaloniki.

At the end of September this year, Flydubai also re-launched its Dubai-Zagreb route, which operates twice a week, announcing that in the winter schedule, as of December 2021, they would operate the flight four times a week.