Basically Air Canada in the past said we will only consider ZAG once the new terminal is finished. Well now it's finished, and here's a link to see what it looks like,

http://www.zagreb-airport.hr/about-u...enger-terminal

My friend was the one who organised the whole SkyGreece YYZ-ZAG debacle. The good thing that came out of it once he showed Air Transat the numbers they jumped right in the next tourist season. They started off on a one weekly 332 rotation, and with in a week or two raised the air frame to a 333 because the bookings were better than anticipated. This season they have upgraded to a two weekly YYZ-ZAG rotation, and on top on that their high season will start earlier, and end later. Air Transat said that ZAG did better for them than Pisa, or Prag in high season. And yes Split, and Dubrovnik are always getting double digit growth year, on year. Actually Split is expected to rise at least 18 percent this summer.

So with the 125,000 Canadians who traveled last year to Croatia, and a lot more expected to come this year I think this would be a good high season option for AC. Let's not forget that AC could also poach over half a million US pax who are expected to go to Croatia this year, with a million predicted to come in the future.

The reason so many European tourists are coming to Croatia is because it's safe, at least for now. Croatia is getting tourist's who are refusing to travel to Turkey, Tunis, Egypt, France and even Greece.

Basically most tourists transit through Zagreb to visit the vast options on the 1000 km coast line which attracted more than 16.8 million tourists last year. They are expecting more than 18 million tourists this summer.