Getting around ZAG
Zagreb’s Franjo Tuđman Airport runs from a single passenger terminal, opened on 22 March 2017 as a full replacement for the airport’s old building — not an extension of it. The old terminal is still standing, repurposed today as a training room inside the airport’s own conference facilities. Two things changed for travellers since that opening, both in 2023: Croatia began fully applying the Schengen border rules on 26 March, and the country had already switched its currency from the kuna to the euro on 1 January. So the single terminal you land in today processes 4.3 million passengers a year, checks passports at 18 control points, and takes only euros — none of which was true when it first opened. There is one terminal, so there is nothing to transfer between: every airline, gate, shop and the airport’s one bookable lounge sit under the same roof.
