January the 20th, 2026 – Ryanair is cutting around 60 planned Croatia summer 2026 flights, with Zadar being the primarily affected airport location.
As Sinisa Malus/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, this week, the wildly popular Irish company Ryanair updated its upcoming summer schedule for 2026. According to the latest update, the company will remove almost 40 weekly flights from its Croatian network throughout April and an additional 24 weeks of rotation in May.
The airline has also reduced its peak-season summer flights from the country by nine weekly flights. The cuts for April and May will primarily affect Zadar Airport and nowhere else, according to Ex-Yu Aviation News. Ryanair has, among other things, reduced its scheduled flights to Weeze from eleven weekly to one daily, to London Stansted from six weekly to two and to Poznan from ten weekly to seven. However, most of these reductions relate to previously announced increases for 2026, rather than to last year’s flight frequency, and in most cases services will remain in line with summer 2025 levels.
On the other hand, SWISS (or its Edelweiss Air subsidiary) is increasing the number of flights operating between Zurich and Zadar this year. Three weeks of flights are planned until the end of August, after which there will be a gradual reduction in capacity. SWISS has announced Airbus A220-300 aircraft on the Zurich-Zadar route, which will operate in combination with Edelweiss’ Airbus A320s. Zadar Airport is due to get a new terminal this year, and last year it handled over 1.6 million passengers.
In Zagreb, Ryanair will temporarily suspend its eight-week service to Basel from mid-April to mid-May due to runway works at the Swiss airport during that period. Ryanair has also changed its plans to increase the frequency of its Dublin flights to daily and will instead operate five weekly flights during the summer, in line with last year’s schedule. In addition, the carrier has scrapped a planned increase in the number of flights on its Malaga route and will operate five weekly flights instead of six during the season.
During the months of April and May, with a break due to the aforementioned situation in Basel and an adjustment due to Dublin, Ryanair has also reduced its planned increase in the number of flights to Paphos from five weekly flights down to four. Despite this reduction, the route will still have one more weekly rotation than last year, and will increase to five weekly flights from June.
It should be noted that Ryanair cutting around 60 Croatia summer 2026 flights are based on the company’s initially announced schedule for this year, and not compared to the flights operated last year. The airline will still operate more flights from Croatia this summer than it did back in 2025, however, the pace of growth has slowed, with the only exception being in May, when it will keep four fewer flights than last year.
Overall, during the peak summer season, Ryanair will still add twelve weekly flights compared to the previous year in June and an additional nine weekly flights in July and August. This week, the carrier implemented cuts across its global network, reducing around 200 weekly flights compared to the original plan for June, July and August.
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