Skopje Airport handles over one million passengers

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Aegean cuts Beirut over jet damage

Greece's largest carrier Aegean Airlines said it had suspended all flights to Beirut pending the results of an investigation into the cause of damage to one of its planes that flew to the Lebanese capital. Ground crew at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport found external damage to the fuselage of a plane that flew from Athens on January 10, prompting the airline a day later to suspend all flights to and from Beirut, a company statement said. It gave no further details about the damage found on the aircraft's exterior. Lebanon's transport ministry dismissed what it said were comments on social media and in the media that suggested a bullet could be to blame. Lebanese Transport and Public Works Minister Ali Hamie published an email on Twitter, dated January 15, covering a technical assessment of damage found below the cockpit. "After close examination, it was determined that it was not the result of a bullet", the email said. Aegean said it had notified Greek authorities and Beirut Airport authorities and expected to give an update on resuming flights to Beirut in the coming weeks. Beirut Airport is in a bustling residential area of the capital, where festive gunfire is not uncommon.

Skopje Airport handles over one million passengers

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Skopje Airport welcomed 1.145.844 passengers between January and December, representing a decrease of 47.5% compared to the same period in the pre-pandemic 2019. Commenting on the airport’s performance, the General Manager of operator TAV Macedonia, Metin Batak, said, “This year we saw the first solid signs of passenger traffic recovery at Skopje and Ohrid airports, following the negative impact Covid-19 had on the aviation sector since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The positive travel trends, fed by passengers’ hunger for air travel and their enthusiasm to get back to normal, was especially felt in the summer months of 2021 when EU travel restrictions for Macedonian passport holders were temporarily lifted. Still, there are a lot of challenges ahead of us, because air traffic continues to be highly dependent on travel restrictions being implemented by different countries, while airports, passengers and airlines try to adapt to the frequent rule changes based on different national health policies”. Skopje Airport will finish the year as the fifth busiest in the former Yugoslavia behind Belgrade, Pristina, Split and Zagreb.

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