Zadar Airport

"ZAD" redirects here. For places known by the French acronym "ZAD" (zone à défendre), see Zone to Defend.

Airport in Zemunik Donji, Croatia

Zadar Airport

Zračna luka Zadar/Zemunik

* IATA: ZAD
* ICAO: LDZD

Summary
Airport type| Public / Military
Operator| Zadar Airport Ltd.
Serves| Zadar
Location| Zemunik Donji, Croatia
Hub for| Ryanair
Focus city for| Croatia Airlines
Elevation AMSL| 289 ft / 88 m
Coordinates| 44°06′30″N 015°20′48″E﻿ / ﻿44.10833°N 15.34667°E﻿ / 44.10833; 15.34667
Website| www.zadar-airport.hr/en/
Map

ZAD

Location of the airport in Croatia

Runways
| Direction | Length  | Surface

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m  | ft
13/31  | 2,500  | 8,202  | Concrete
04/22  | 2,000  | 6,562  | Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
| Passengers| 1,230,835  11.65%

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Croatian Aeronautical Information Publication[1]

Zadar Airport (Croatian: Zračna luka Zadar; IATA: ZAD, ICAO: LDZD) is an international airport serving Zadar, Croatia. It is located in Zemunik Donji, 8 km (5 mi) from the centre of Zadar.[1] It is rapidly growing now with 70 destinations and had its 1,000,000th passenger in September 2023.[2] It is the fourth busiest airport in Croatia.

## History[edit]

As early as 1936, Zadar (then part of the Italian Province of Zara) had regular commercial flights, initially provided by Ala Littoria.[3] Over time the airport has grown to become Croatia's fourth largest international airport, handling 801,347 annual passengers. It used to be one of a few airports in the world where the taxiway crossed a public road. The road was closed on 7 April 2010 due to terms negotiated with the European Union during Croatian accession negotiations.[4] In 2020, an underpass was built and the road was reopened.

In April 2013, Zadar Airport became a Ryanair base with a stationed Boeing 737-800. In December 2019, Lauda announced the stationing of three Airbus A320 aircraft during the summer 2020 timetable period. A set of 11 new routes was announced by the airline for summer 2020.[5] Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the airline postponed the opening of the base to July 2021, where it will station two Airbus A320-200 and serve 37 destinations.[6]

## Facilities[edit]

The airport also is a Croatian Air Force main training base. It used to be a base for Lufthansa's InterCockpit flight school.

## Airlines and destinations[edit]

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Zadar Airport:

Airlines| Destinations

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Air Serbia |  Seasonal: Belgrade[7]
Austrian Airlines |  Seasonal: Vienna[8][9]
Brussels Airlines |  Seasonal: Brussels[10][11]
Croatia Airlines |  Munich,[12] Pula, Zagreb
Discover Airlines |  Seasonal: Frankfurt[13]
easyJet |  Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[14] Berlin, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa, Toulouse[15]
Eurowings |  Seasonal: Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
LOT Polish Airlines |  Seasonal: Zielona Góra[16]
Lufthansa |  Seasonal: Frankfurt,[17] Munich
Luxair |  Seasonal: Luxembourg[18]
Norwegian Air Shuttle |  Seasonal: Copenhagen,[19] Oslo[19]
People's|  Seasonal: St. Gallen/Altenrhein[20]
Ryanair[21]|  Seasonal: Aarhus, Barcelona,[22] Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham,[23] Bologna,[24] Bournemouth,[25] Bremen, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen,[26] Cork,[27] Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Hahn,[28] Hamburg, Helsinki,[29] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Katowice,[30] Kaunas,[31] Košice,[32] Kraków, Leeds/Bradford,[33] Liverpool,[25] London–Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa,[34] Münster/Osnabrück,[35] Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg,[36] Pisa,[37] Poznań, Prague, Rzeszów,[38] Sofia,[29] Stockholm–Arlanda, Växjö, Vienna,[39] Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław
Scandinavian Airlines |  Seasonal: Copenhagen[40]
Sky Alps |  Seasonal: Verona[41]
Trade Air |  Osijek, Rijeka
Transavia |  Seasonal: Paris–Orly,[42] Rotterdam/The Hague[43]

## Statistics[edit]

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

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Traffic at Zadar Airport  Year  | Passengers  | Cargo (kg)

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1976  |  146,000  | N/A
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2010  |  272,675  | 15,975
2011  |  284,980  | 19,457
2012  |  371,256  | 10,516
2013  |  472,572  | 17,267
2014  |  496,697  | 7,275
2015  |  487,652  | 12,791
2016  |  520,226  | 26,450
2017  |  589,468  | 5,925
2018  |  604,039  | 19,953
2019  |  801,347  | 2,517
2020  |  120,747  | 50
2021  |  513,093  | 274
2022  |  1,102,381  | 1,045
2023  | 1,230,835 | 80

## References[edit]

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43. ^ "Transavia offers new summer destinations in 2019". Worldairlinenews.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.

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