The Croatian Football Federation and Croatia Airlines have agreed to continue their business cooperation. The Croatian national airline will remain the official airline of HNS and the Croatian national football team.
The agreement on the extension of cooperation for another two years was signed by CFF President Marijan Kustić and Croatia Airlines President Jasmin Bajić, and the signing took place in the cockpit of the first new Airbus A220 aircraft, whose inclusion in the fleet in July of this year marked the beginning of the entire fleet renewal Croatia Airlines. The signing of the contract was attended by the technical director of the First and U-21 national team, Stipe Pletikosa, and the marketing manager of HNS, Ante Cicvarić, and Croatia Airlines was represented by commercial affairs director Slaven Žabo, marketing director Anamarija Jurinjak and sales manager Marija Pavić.
HNS and Croatia Airlines thus continue their successful business cooperation, which began in 2018 after the Croatian national football team returned to Croatia on a ceremonial Croatia Airlines flight with the silver medal won at the World Cup in Russia. Two other exceptional Croatian successes have marked cooperation to date of the chosen kind of football, which won the bronze medal at the WC in Qatar in 2022 and the silver medal in the League of Nations in 2023.
I would like to thank the management of Croatia Airlines, led by Mr. Bajić, for the trust they have shown, and we look forward to the continuation of successful cooperation with our national airline. It is a nice idea that we are signing the contract in a new plane that symbolizes the renewal of the Croatia Airlines fleet, which is another similarity with our national team – sometimes you need refreshments, new players or new planes, in order to continue with successes and good results. We will not forget the two triumphant flights with Croatia Airlines on the way back from the past two world championships, and we are signing this contract with the hope, desire and faith that we will continue to have peaceful and pleasant, and sometimes celebratory flights together – said HNS President Marijan Kustić
During our previous cooperation with HNS, the greatest successes in the history of Croatian football have taken place, and I believe that in the future we will celebrate new great achievements of the Croatian A team together. The extension of cooperation also has additional symbolism, because the process of successfully rejuvenating the national team is taking place at the same time as the start of the renewal of the entire fleet of Croatia Airlines with new Airbus A220 aircraft, and we are really looking forward to new joint flights in the most modern aircraft of the new generation – said Jasmin Bajić, President of the Croatia Airlines Board
By the way, transporting the Croatian national football team from major competitions began 26 years ago, in July 1998, when the football team returned home on a Croatia Airlines plane with the bronze medal won at the FIFA World Cup in France.
SOURCE: Croatia Football Federation
