NEWS FLASH
Skopje Airport welcomed 260.095 passengers through its doors in July, representing an increase of 7.6% on the same month during the pre-pandemic 2019. The strong rebound in numbers was fuelled by Wizz Air, which has restored its entire network out of Skopje, as well as an increased number of charter flights. During the January - July period, Macedonia’s main airport handled 1.122.574 travellers, which is still down 13.7% on pre-Covid levels. Passenger numbers on a number of select routes out of Skopje during the first quarter of the year have been made public, showing the likes of Istanbul, Basel and Zurich as the busiest. It should be taken into account that strict travel restrictions were still in place in most of Europe during the first quarter, as well as ban on entry from Macedonia to some markets. As a result, the majority of routes were still performing below pre-pandemic levels, however, there were some exceptions. These include Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, Basel, Dortmund, Hamburg and Berlin which were above pre-Covid levels.
Skopje performance on select routes, Q1 2022
Excellent result. Interesting that SAW was so close to IST with the numbers.
ReplyDeleteWe need 2x week flights from ohrid to istanbul new airport
DeleteTheyres 70k people from north macedonia which are in usa
Plus peoplw from korca and pogradec in albania are like 30k in usa
We need and love to fly from ohrid-istanbul-jfk
I live in USa and ohrid airport is 50 minutes from my house from dibra or debar city in north Macedonia
Soon you will have JFK-BEG-OHD...which will be very good. OHD-IST is also indespensable!
DeleteVery good results. I hope one day atleast one gulf carier will come back. It would also be nice if Wizzair would add some summer charters to Spain maybe.
ReplyDeleteWizz Air charters? Sure thing
DeleteI meant seasonal flights
DeleteIt seems that there is still very high demand for gasto routes such as the profile of the airport itself.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder why QR and FZ are not yet considering SKP.
there is no correlation between that. If QR or FZ comes back will depend on different factors. Such as travel demand from people living in Macedonia and ofcourse people going to Macedonia. I think there is enough demand for them to make a little profit on SKP route but with plane shortage and staff shortage worldwide it is at the moment not interesting to invest in SKP while you can use your planes on routes that make higher profit.
DeleteI am surprised BEG is not even on the list...
ReplyDeleteThese are select destinations. Data is not available for all routes, including Belgrade and Zagreb.
DeleteBetter than LJU #
ReplyDeleteNo wonder why Dortmund will be increased on daily and Charleroi and Hamburg on four weekly in December.
ReplyDeleteDo we know how ATH flights are performing?
ReplyDeleteEasy Jet from AMS woul be no brainer, I don't know what are they wayting for?
ReplyDeleteWe deffinitly need Paris , Amsterdam or Frankfurt to enter our country , this is tje Europe airports that connects all the world and we dont have connections to this main airports , we have only Istanbul and Vienna and this is not enough. This Wizz routes are important only for our diaspora , but TAV need to counts and its citizens in Macedonia who wants to travel around the world but dont have direct connection to Europe main airports and are force to change few airports to reach its target ..
ReplyDeleteYou have Skopje - Warsaw with LOT and from Warsaw dozen of destinations to N.America and Asia. So its not that we are not connected, but I agree we need more ;)
DeleteDo you have this kind of Date considering Ohrid Airport? Would be interesting to see that from my side!
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