EX-YU airports miss out on Qatar Airways expansion

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Airports in the former Yugoslavia have missed out on being included in Qatar Airways’ expansion plans this year, which will see the airline introduce seven new destinations and restore eleven points previously operated during the pandemic. Within Europe, Qatar Airways is launching flights to Trabzon, Lyon and Toulouse, as well as resuming services to Nice and Birmingham. The airline does not plan to restore flights to Skopje, which were maintained until the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, nor has it restored its Dubrovnik launch plans. Services to the Croatian coastal city were to commence in April 2020. Within the former Yugoslavia, the Qatari carrier will maintain operations to Belgrade and Zagreb this year, as well as seasonally to Sarajevo, between June and October.


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  1. Anonymous12:26

    This means they are probably never returning to SKP unfortunately :(

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    1. Anonymous12:38

      It is possible some other airline serve this route from SKP , we will see. Istanbul will be on strike for the Asian transfer from SKP thats for surr , and we will see how it works the connection from Frankfurt. We also must see is there will be new airlines and destinations on the new tender , maybe there will be some suprise.

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  2. Anonymous12:42

    This could well mean that they plan to boost their codeshare arrangement with JU to cover this part of Europe...

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    1. Anonymous12:50

      they codeshare/interline with several airlines "to cover this part of Europe" ... Pegasus, Austrian; AirSerbia; Croatia Airlines , Aegean

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    2. Anonymous12:56

      Their only codeshare partners in South-central Europe are Air Serbia and Bulgaria Air, with the latter being largely non-relevant in ex-YU. Interline and codeshare are rather different commercial arrangements.

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    3. Anonymous13:06

      go to qatarairways.com and check yourself on example of DOH-SKP whether there is a difference between Air Serbia and Austrian, Aegean, OU and Pegasus connections.

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    4. Anonymous13:07

      For those travelling to Doha, yes, but that's low number. Who travels further to Asia/Australia will never choose 2 transfers.

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    5. Anonymous13:10

      @13.06
      QR does not codeshare on JU's Skopje flights.

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    6. Anonymous13:21

      @13.10 lol well thats my point. From a pax perspective theres no difference if they are interlining to SKP or official codesharing.

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  3. Anonymous12:44

    Quite dissapointed, not on the news, but on PR surrounding the expansion...It's 7 new rutes, but they were running PR campaign like at least 30 new ones will be announced

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  4. Anonymous12:50

    Who are the 11 resumptions??

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    1. Anonymous13:32

      The 11 resumptions are:
      Birmingham, Nizza, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Davao (Philippinen), Peking, Osaka, Tokio Haneda, Phnom Penh, Ras Al Khaimah

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    2. Anonymous16:23

      Thanks for the info. Quite logical destinations if you ask me where there is usually good demand. Buenos Aires is in need of more competition as it is lacking behind compared to Santiago de Chile or Lima for instance. SE Asia is finally reopen for travel.

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  5. Anonymous12:53

    Meh!

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  6. Anonymous12:54

    Macedonians are not traveling much to the Gulf , thats small number of people going there through the year.When our people going to work in Afganistan that was pretry much big number , maybeore then 50.000 then this route was popular , but now they dont go to work there. The other important element is our diaspora in Australia , they are not coming back here as they before the Covid and I dont know why , so when they start coming back like few years ago , then Qatar will smell that and they will launce the route again , but that when will happens nobody knows. I think this is the reason , thats my opinion.

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    1. Anonymous13:22

      They will return in numbers when they have a reasonable connection

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    2. Anonymous13:36

      But we can see that Doha and Dubai are not very positive on returning to SKP, so how they will return when their main connection airports just dont like SKP in the moment ..?

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    3. Anonymous13:58

      well then they won't or at least not in the same numbers. OZ arrivals went up when Qatar introduced these flights.

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    4. Anonymous16:29

      Don't forget that SKP relies also quite a lot on the Albanian diaspora more than the Australian one. How do you think it is possible to fill those Wizzair A321s? This is probably gonna be the reason why Wizzair will win the tender. If FlyDubai failed to resume a 2-3 weekly flight, then imagine Qatar. Simply no demand and small market for the time being.

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    5. Anonymous17:37

      Thats why Doha & Dubai wont come back... cuz of the albanians :((( its all about them in Skp... :(

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    6. Anonymous17:41

      @ 16.29 guess the Alb's fill the planes to Greece Serbia & Montenegro as well? Maybe even in Spain?

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    7. Anonymous18:39

      @16.29 Hahahaha

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    8. Anonymous20:00

      17.41 The Spanish route from shkupi to Barcelona was subsidised and the money finished. The gasto community over there is also very small. Maybe in the next tender. Planes to Greece and Serbia are turboprops and not A321s. Huge difference.

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    9. Anonymous20:21

      20.00 I meant all the routes to that specific country, because only albanians travel no one else :)

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    10. Anonymous21:50

      @20.00 your comments get more silly and silly. get back in your nationalistic ethno bubble fortress

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    11. Anonymous09:31

      @17.41 What is shkupi? Never heard of such thing.

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  7. Anonymous13:02

    LH and TK are amused

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  8. Anonymous13:05

    AirSerbia should look into Trabzon for westward transfers.

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  9. notLufthansa13:46

    https://youtu.be/EqfNH652dH4

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  10. Anonymous13:49

    Based on today's news, we can see that this part of Europe is not in their current focus. Lets forget SKP for a moment, but I think TIA deserves a chance and also SKG was in much better position to be restored and that didn't happen either. Pity, since it's a great airline from passenger perspective...

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    1. During Corona, they really showed lack of professionalim, and mistreatment to their guests pax. I will never forget them how they badly handled the situation...Complitely different to TK , who showed why the are way above others

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    2. Anonymous22:24

      I agree TIA makes sense

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  11. Anonymous14:37

    any other European destinations stil not resumed beside the 3 in our vicinity (DBV,SKP,SKG)?

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  12. Anonymous18:13

    Trabzon is Europe? 🤪

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    1. Anonymous08:18

      Everywhere is Trabzon for people of Trabzon, so Europe is Trabzon.

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  13. When Corona started, QR dissapeared from the face of the earth, and left their pax completely without customer service...They are not the company to be trusted any more...Corona really showed everybody's face...I'm not advocating, but Turkish and Singapore Airlines put the standards...TAP was not bad either

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    1. Anonymous18:21

      They were quite literally one of the only airlines that kept flying across the world.

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    2. Anonymous19:05

      Treshhja, it was actually the opposite with QR one of the only airlines in the world that kept on flying all the time (globally).

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  14. Anonymous18:28

    Guys I completely understand your anger and disappointment. We in Slovakia are unfortunately used to being forgotten by everyone. We don't have even Turkish or Air Serbia like you have. It must be enough for us to travel from neighboring countries, but we would also like to have routes with transport opportunities in Slovakia.

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    1. Anonymous18:39

      At least you have good connections with Vienna which is major hub...and by train/bus you can get there in an hour (from Bratislava)...interesting and surprising that Turkish does not fly to Bratislava

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  15. Anonymous17:31

    Well, they increased ZAG for the summer, so good news.

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    1. Anonymous17:52

      It is more like a marketing trick. They operated daily flights during peak season to Zagreb last year too. It is still half of the frequencies they had before Covid. They also "increased" Belgrade to daily even though they had daily flights during peak summer last year too.

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    2. Anonymous11:29

      They were planning 4 pw, now it is 7. Regardless what they had last summer, is this more or not?

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    3. Anonymous11:32

      No. 7 weekly have been scheduled since last year for this summer. And yes you always compare summer vs last summer, winter vs last winter.

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