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Transavia has discontinued flights between Amsterdam and Skopje after one season. In a statement to EX-YU Aviation News, the carrier said, “Transavia will not operate the Skopje - Amsterdam route in the upcoming summer season. However, we continuously review our network and evaluate opportunities based on demand and operational considerations”. Transavia introduced flights to Skopje on March 2 and maintained two weekly flights from Amsterdam.
Unsurprising. As far as I know, KLM wasn't codesharing on this service and so the transfer benefit of AMS as a major hub was completely lost. Incredible incompetence on behalf of AF-KLM.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am sure that you are right that one of the biggest airlines in Europe and also Europe's most digitally advanced airline group is "incompetent" because it will no longer fly to Skopje.
Delete^ you have incompetencies across major companies in Europe and the world. Nothing new.
DeleteDoes anyone know the LF on this route?
DeleteDon't get why people here are so obsessed with load factor here. There are many things that impact on a decision whether to cut some route and load factor is not the most important. Yields, slots, aircraft availability.... Maybe the route made them money but they can use the slot in a heavily slot restricted airport for something else that can make them much more money.
DeleteAll those you mention, slots, availability of aircraft, calculated return on investment or yields are calculated prior, during planning stage. If the load factor is reasonable, it means that the yield is good too, and they tend to keep and peruse the route. Transavia is not a start up in AMS, they have certainly taken into account which are top yielding slots that they can obtain. So yes, IT IS the load factor.
DeleteNo, High load factor does not automatically translate into high yields.
DeleteI used this service. On the flight from AMS-SKP the flight was full, however on the end of july the youth olympics took place in Skopje so I it seemed there were a lot of Dutch teenagers with their families on the flight, max 10% was gasto. On the flight back mid august pax was 90-95% also this time mostly Dutch people. However I noticed 3 Dutch families with Greek shopping bags, water bottles etc so it seemed they were first in Greece on vacation. But that doesn’t mean ofc this was on every flight. I also have used EIN-SKP many times and here mosly gasto use this service.
DeleteGreat opportunity for easyJet to step in.
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DeleteWhy if there isn't enough demand? If Transavia couldn't make it then easyJet won't either.
DeleteWizz is flying 3-4 times per week from SKP to EIN since 2012. EIN is 120km away from Amsterdam, so I wouldn't say there isn't enough demand.
DeleteThere is for Wizz price but not for Transavia price.
DeleteEasyjet has A320 with 180 seats, Transavia has A321 with 220 seats - that equipment might be too big for the SKP AMS pair.
DeleteKLM Embraers wight be ideal on this route.
WizzAir flew daily to EIN in 2023. Since then the flights are reduced to three or four per week.
DeleteI used the servive in the summer.
ReplyDeletethe A321 might be too big for this destination.
Yes it js too big for winter but not for summer , they dont have smaller planes thats why decision is to suspend
DeleteThe route is not suspended but terminated. Read their statement again.
DeleteI know very well I see in August that they dont have booking available after 26th Octomber
DeleteIf there wasn't any code shearing with KLM-AF than honestly this was doomed to failure
ReplyDeleteNo there is no any codeshare with KLM and their round trip tickets were 200 eur , whilst Wizz air you have Eindhoven for 50 eur round trip
DeleteTransavia serving SKG 9 weekly while EasyJet announced AMS-SKG 2 weekly and I think Aegean is there too. Maybe thats the reason no point to serve both SKG and SKP.
ReplyDeleteSKP and SKG are not one hour away. Its cheaper and faster for me if i fly to EIN or even CRL or simply use JU.
DeletePity they were not able to sustain 2x to Amsterdam
ReplyDeleteThey could but they dont have smaller planes especially in winter period , all summer they were sending A321,other problem is no KLM transfers so the demand for point to point is small
DeleteThey do have smaller planes.
DeleteThey why they dont send smaller planes when LF was good ?
DeleteStupid Transavia planers.
ReplyDeleteThere was no codeshare with KLM so for Europe hub as AMS we didnt have option for any transfer , so I was expecting this , plus they send A321 since the beggining of the launching and they didnt swap it with smaller one
ReplyDeleteSuch a shame :(
ReplyDeleteIt is shame that they dont offer transfers with KLM in one of Europes biggest hubs , SKP-AMS route is transfer not point to point
DeleteThe failure of this is there is no codeshare with KLM , people from Skopje needs transfer option in Amsterdam , the point to point people are smaller portion and all using Wizz air option for way smaller money then this 200 eur option..... good time for KLM to enter with city hopper and with the transfers they will have great numbers👍
ReplyDeleteYes, Skopje is huge priority for KLM, they are planning it as we speak.
DeleteNever say never buddy everything is possible
DeleteMaybe try OHD instead at least in summer, like many many years ago with their 707 ;)
ReplyDeleteOhrid is already served by TUI so no space for them
DeleteThis route was operated by A321 in most of the days of operation , which means there was demand,nobody will send A321 if there is bad load factor or no demand or no people , something happend with Transavia or just Macedonian market is cheap and they will send the plane to more expensive airports...
ReplyDeleteThere is ofc the possibility that KLM will just replace Transavia on te Amsterdam flight.
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