MAJOR LAUDA EXPANSION IN ZADAR - PART 1
Lauda (OE), Austrian low cost airline and subsidiary of Ryanair Holdings, will open a new base in Zadar where it will base 3 A320 aircraft for the summer operations. Lauda is launching new services to Aarhus, Hamburg, Beauvais, Bremen, Cork, Kaunas, Liverpool, Riga, Toulouse, Vienna and Wroclaw.
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Photo 1. Lauda Airbus A320. Source: Flickr. Under Creative Commons license. |
Flights to Aarhus will operate twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays. Flights will depart Zadar at 17:10 and land in Aarhus at 19:30 from where it will take off at 19:55 and land in Zadar at 22:15.
Service to Bremen will be operational on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays departing Zadar at 14:00 and landing in Bremen at 16:35. From Bremen, the return flight will take off at 17:00 and land in Zadar at 18:55.
Lauda will offer two weekly rotations to Beauvais, French airport near Paris, which will run each Wednesday and Saturday. Outbound flight will depart Zadar early morning at 06:05 and land in Beauvais at 08:05. Return service will depart Beauvais Airport at 08:30 and land in Zadar at 10:30.
Lauda will offer two weekly services from Zadar to Hamburg. Flights will depart Zadar each Monday and Friday at 07:15, landing in Hamburg at 09:15 from where the return flight will take off at 09:40 and land in Zadar at 11:40.
All services to and from Zadar are scheduled to be operated by Airbus A320 aircraft, the sole aircraft operated by Lauda. Airline was created in 2004 as Amira Air and bought by Niki Lauda in 2016 when it was renamed as Laudamotion and incorporated Niki airline, Austrian low cost company. In 2018, company was bought by Ryanair and incorporated into Ryanair Holdings. Today, Lauda operates 23 A320 aircraft to 36 destinations from its bases in Vienna, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart and Palma de Mallorca. Zadar is the fifth Lauda base to be opened. Previously, Zadar served as the summer base for Lauda's parent company Ryanair.