October 25 (SeeNews) - Zagreb airport is holding talks with a European air carrier on the relaunch of flights to New York in the summer of 2017 after a 22-year pause, news portal Ex-Yu Aviation News reported.
Earlier this year, the Croatian ambassador to the United States announced that the embassy had resumed discussions with various stakeholders in order to explore all possibilities for the establishment of direct flights to Croatia, the news portal reported on Monday.
"We will do all we can to spearhead and facilitate this effort, and set up direct flights as soon as it is economically possible," the diplomat said.
Croatia last offered a flight connection to the United States in summer 1991. It was serviced by Pan Am and flew four times a week.
Prior to that, JAT Yugoslav Airlines maintained services from Zagreb to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
In mid-2016, Air Serbia launched a regular service between the capital of Belgrade and New York, the first direct flight connection between Serbia and the U.S. in 24 years. The new route is serviced five times a week by a 254-seat Airbus A330 wide-body twin-engine jet airliner.