Lauda (Vienna) will open a base in the Croatian city of Zadar in April next year, the airline's fifth base overall and allowing it to add a further 11 new routes to its existing network of 20 city pairs.
An airport press release said the three aircraft base is expected to carry a total of 672,000 passengers annually.
The 11 new city pairs which will start from the base next summer are:
- Aarhus (2x weekly);
- Bremen Hans Koschnick (3x weekly);
- Cork (2x weekly);
- Paris Beauvais (2x weekly);
- Gdansk (3x weekly);
- Kaunas International (2x weekly);
- Liverpool (2x weekly);
- Maastricht (2x weekly);
- Riga (2x weekly);
- Toulouse Blagnac (2x weekly);
- Wroclaw (2x weekly).
Eddie Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Ryanair (FR, Dublin International), which owns Lauda said: “We are delighted to be opening our base in Zadar next summer, as part of our efforts to contribute to the growth of traffic, tourism and jobs."
Lauda has a fleet of twenty-four A320-200s which it uses on its network of flights which covers 31 different countries. The Ryanair subsidiary currently has four bases; Düsseldorf, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart Manfred Rommel, and Vienna.
