Historically speaking, tourism was intended only for elite members of society, it was not even assumed that it would become mass phenomenon as it is today. People traveled primarily out od necessity, for medical purposes, education etc. Over the decades, more and more awarness of travel as a type of holiday starded to raise; after the introduction of paid holidays and strenghtrening of the middle class other members of society become able to travel as well. Low-cost carriers have revolutionized the air transport market and given the massses the opportunity to travel by plane. Largely thanks to this, today we travel faster and cheaper than ever before. Through the sharing economy, tourists create their own holiday arrangement tailored to their individual needs, and due to the low prices of airline tickets od low-cost carriers and the rapid arrival in the destination of choice, they increasingly decide to travel by plane. In the last few years, we have been witnessing a growing trend of positioning our destinations on the global tourism market and thus attracting foreign investors in various areas of tourism, including air transport. As early as the early 2000s, the only possibility o fair traveling from Croatia was exclusively by flying with traditional airlines, while for accessing low-cost carriers one was forced to use the airports of neighboring countries. In this way, a trip would be extended and several types of transport had to be combined, and today we simply fly to popular European destination from Croatian airports directly. The aim of this paper is to study impact of low-cost carriers on the traffic of Croatian airports and to analyze how much the airports themselves and the local population benefited from their arrivel. Moreover, since some airlines have withdrawn from the Croatian market over the course of time this matter and the reasons behind it will aslo be analyzed and discussed.