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Competition and Cooperation on Croatian Air Traffic Market

Forms of competition on Croatian air traffic market are becoming increasingly multileveled. Apart form scheduled and charter foreign and domestic airlines, “low cost” carriers are becoming more and more present, as well as competition form other traffic forms such as land traffic. Paper will also consider concentration of airports on infrastructure operations with special emphasis on regional airports. After the year 2003, there has been exceptionally significant increase of scheduled passenger services on behalf of foreign airlines. Complete analysis of competition on Croatian market in last ten years is considered. Efficient respond to this trend represents optimization of business model for which basic precondition lies in development of code-sharing cooperations within one of the world’s airline alliances. Croatia Airlines, as regional Star Alliance member, is intensively spreading the list of commercial partner. Furthermore, the role of Croatia Airlines in catchment area is very important to define and provide using benchmarking technique. All considered elements are necessary in harmonization of optimal business model which respects competition, cooperation and sustainable development.

competition, Croatian air traffic market, airline cooperations, benchmarking, business model

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