NEWS FLASH
Low cost carrier Wizz Air has begun scheduling flights to new destinations out of Skopje after it won a tender by the Macedonian government for the provision of new routes from the country in return for subsidies over a three-year period. The carrier has scheduled operations from Skopje to both Ljubljana and Luxembourg. Services to the Slovenian capital will commence on September 27 with the Airbus A321 aircraft and will initially run twice per week before increasing to three weekly from October 31. Further details are available here. Luxembourg will also be maintained three weekly with the A320 jet. The inaugural flight is scheduled for December 18, with further information here.
As previously reported, Wizz Air is yet to schedule flights Stuttgart and Salzburg which will also run three times per week from November. Services to Ljubljana will resume for the first time in four years. Flights were previously operated by the now defunct Adria Airways until its bankruptcy in September 2019. At the time, Adria maintained operations on the route twice per day. Skopje is one of Ljubljana’s busiest unserved routes. On the other hand, Luxembourg will be served out of Skopje for the first time. Wizz will station its sixth aircraft in the Macedonian capital in December and will increase frequencies on nine existing routes - Dortmund, Bremen, Memmingen, Berlin, Baden-Baden, Rome Fiumicino, Brussels Charleroi, Bratislava and Eindhoven. Flights to Berlin, Eindhoven and Charleroi will operate daily.
At least something good happening in Ljubljana
ReplyDeleteyay SKP-LJU!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful photo
ReplyDeleteHungary independence day celebration flyby?
Delete9 routes will also be increased: Eindhoven, Berlin and Brussels to daily, Memmingen to 9 and Dortmund to 10 times per week, rome to 5 per week, karlsruhe to 4 per week and bremen to 3 times per week!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bratislava from 3 to 4 times per week
DeleteSKP needs another German village to be increased to daily!
DeleteThey will have 123 one-way weekly flights from SKP, that is 17 or 18 flights per day, which means that all 6 aircrafts will be used only for SKP routes not "W-rotations".
Delete@15:16, at least we have flights, much more then SJJ, TGD and LJU have at the moment..
Delete@15.16 obviously there is demand for it
Delete15.15 wow just shows what Ryanair is missing
DeleteThey will also increase Hahn and Hamburg on five times per week, actually, on Sundays they will operate 19 flights out of SKP, two of which will not be operated from the base, one of them is Luton and idk about the second one. Skavsta on the other side will be reduced from three to twice per week and Gothenburg will remain to operate three instead of four times per week as well as Malmo will operate four instead of five.
DeleteAlso Basel will operate 11 times per week.
DeleteNot gonna happen because they were supposed to base a sixth aircraft, but they're having problems with sourcing local crew, since the government won't give them residence permits for foreigners anymore. So not enough pilots for a sixth airplane.
Deletelol thatswhy they (the country) are looking for foreigner workers in general
DeleteAnd another aircraft based, bringing up the tally to six. Not too bad.
ReplyDeleteGlad for LJU-SKP. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is good information, but we need Amsterdam , Paris , or Heathrow ... And cant wait for Doha and Dubai and maybe Abu Dhabi. Its possible maybe not this year but next we see SKP - Madrid flights. SKP will have new destinations thats for sure , but I guess just need a time for that. I hope after Lufthansa enter the market maybe we can see some bigger airline too ...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, at least we should have SKP-AUH before Qatar and Flydubai decides to come back. Ryanair could join the party and make some concurrence to Wizz and fly to Helsinki, Paphos, Prague, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna and why not to either Malaga or Valencia on a seasonal basis.
DeleteWhen it comes to CDG, LHR and AMS, I'm not sure we are ready to see these routes coming soon unfortunately... none of AF, BA or KL will come to Macedonia in a near future.
Yes but we need connection to the main airports in Europe , not only the villages for our diaspora ..Ryanair will not come they know that Wizz rules SKP ... I am sure that we can see Iberia soon , there were talks for that on official base. And probably some new airline will enter the market , I hope we see connection to at least Ams or Cgd ...
Delete@20.00 stopped reading after villages
DeleteWIZZ Air overbooks flights and leaves passengers with paid reservations on the Tarmac. Just Wrong!
ReplyDeleteEvery airline overbooks. That is not the problem. The problem with Wizz is that it does not take good care of passengers when things go wrong, and that its flights are delayed and cancelled far too often.
DeleteWizzair is a blessing for Skopje airport and folks in MKD.
ReplyDeleteIts impossible to deny it .
Totally!
DeleteWe love them like they are our national airline, its normal to use wizzair in Macedonia, but i think the Macedonian crew on the flights make us feel like that, so sorry that their salaries are small and due to the lack of crew they have to fly every other day during the busy months...
Deletecannot give enough kudos to the local crews at SKP... if you have flown Ryanair anywhere in W.Europe you will know what im talking abot
Deleteloving the photo <3
ReplyDeleteSkopje-Berlin daily? amazing :D
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Hannover 😭
ReplyDeleteas far as i know Wizz completely withdraw from Hannover ... come on Bremen is just round the corner ;)
DeleteWhen Wizz Air start for Abu Dhabi or Dubai to Islamabad?
ReplyDeleteI don't know and I don't care
DeleteWhy some flights of Air Serbia to Skopje are operated with A319 even A320 this week? Is it due to the demand or the lack of fleet they have at the moment? Even Pegasus increased its capacity to SKP this year, they operate all 8 weekly flights with A21N
ReplyDeletePegasus is Nr.3 @SKP
DeleteLets be honest that this increase will never happen! They will immediately reduce the flights on all nine routes after 10th January, they were suppost to bring the 6th jet this summer and nothing happend. Idk who will fly 23 times a week to EIN, LUX, CGN and DTM buy okay we will see. The only good thing is LJU which was really needed. We ant flights to Spain and Prague, not villages in Germany. Only Bologna, Malta and Rome are used for holidays, maybe Bratislava too, everything else is for the diaspora ( the ones who want Macedonia to be Albania )
ReplyDelete(the ones who want North Macedonia to be Albania) What do you mean?
Deleteno they were not "supposed" to bring the 6th jet this summer. Too much conspiraciesy ine one post really
DeleteYes they were supposed to, but they're having problems with sourcing local crew, as the government won't give them anymore residence permits for foreigners. So not enough pilots for a sixth airplane.
Delete@23.07 lies! they never had a schedule for 6 aircrafts this summer
DeleteThey had schedule, it was until they decided to cut Turku, Billund and Turin, before that, they had bigger schedule for this summer!
Deletesorry but thats just wrong. they never had they a schedule for 6 aircrafts before
DeleteYes they had, if you werent informed about it doesnt mean that it is not true.
DeleteHope to have soon OPO 🇵🇹 - SKP 🇲🇰 route! I do it 2/5 times per year and always i do a connection flight in Frankfurth or Vienna. Portugal 🇵🇹 and OPO needs a route to Balkans!
ReplyDeletehopefully one or two more routes can be added with the remains of the tender money
ReplyDeleteWizzair need to return direct flight to Skopje-Barcelona at list in high season!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Wizz entered Tirana so late, as they're now way bigger there than in Skopje.
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