With the start of daylight saving time on Sunday, March 26, 2023, the summer flight schedule also began at Zadar Airport, along with the implementation of the Schengen regime at airports. On the very first day, around twenty aircraft rotations were handled, and the first Ryanair B737-800 flight arrived at approximately 7:15 a.m. from the Polish city of Wroclaw, bringing 150 passengers.

Outside the Schengen regime, at around 1:20 p.m., an aircraft from Dublin also landed with 176 passengers, who used the new terminal building annexes.

“From midnight, Zadar Airport has been operating under the so-called Schengen regime for both arriving and departing passengers. Two completely new temporary annexes to the terminal building have been constructed, with an investment of around EUR 2.2 million. The biggest changes are in passenger flows, which will now be simpler and easier for all passengers within the Schengen area, as there will be no passport control. For passengers outside the regime, essentially nothing changes, except that they will use a new departures terminal at our airport,” said Zadar Airport Director Josip Klišmanić, who also pointed out that passenger traffic this year is expected to be about 5 percent higher than last year, the record-breaking 2022, when the airport surpassed one million passengers for the first time.

In this year’s summer flight schedule, Zadar Airport will offer a total of around 70 routes. Among the new airlines are Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) with a route to Copenhagen, People’s with flights to St. Gallen, and AeroItalia to Forlì. As for our largest partner, Ryanair, it is offering 47 routes in the summer schedule, including three new destinations so far: Milan Malpensa (MXP) in Italy, Münster in Germany, and Rzeszów in Poland.

In addition, we are proud to highlight two new domestic routes operated by the Croatian airline Trade Air, connecting Zadar with Rijeka and Osijek.