Zadar Airport
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Zadar Airport is the airport serving Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...

, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. It is located in Zemunik Donji
Zemunik Donji
Zemunik Donji is a municipality in Croatia in the Zadar County. According to the 2001 census, there are 1,903 inhabitants, 94% which are Croats....

 8 km from the Zadar railway station. The airport serves as the flying base for Lufthansa
Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft , and Hansa .The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating...

's flight school InterCockpit and Croatian Air Force main training base.

Zadar airport was one of the few airports in the world where the taxiway
Taxiway
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 crossed a public road. The road was closed on Wednesday, 07 April 2010 due to the terms negotiated with the European Union during Croatian accession negotiations.

Airlines and destinations

Moreover a number of charter flights connect the airport with numerous destinations throughout Europe
Europe
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during the summer months.

Traffic figures

Traffic at Zadar Airport
Year Passengers Cargo
1990 360,624 N/A
2001 39,244 N/A
2002 49,949 N/A
2003 69,876 N/A
2004 65,853 N/A
2005 86,857 N/A
2006 65,423 N/A
2007 119,449 N/A
2008 157,978 N/A
2009 215,868 N/A
2010 272,675 13,786

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