EX-YU markets top Turkish Airlines’ Australia transfers

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A Turkish Airlines A350 aircraft departing Istanbul

Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have emerged as some of the busiest transfer markets on Turkish Airlines’ Australian services. The carrier operates flights from Istanbul to both Sydney and Melbourne.

Based on booking data for the period between April 2025 and March 2026, Skopje was the second-largest source of transfer passengers on Turkish Airlines’ Sydney service, while Belgrade ranked fourth and Ohrid seventh. London was the route’s largest source market.

Over the same period, Ohrid was the seventh-largest source of transfer passengers on the Melbourne service, followed by Sarajevo in eighth place and Belgrade in ninth. London once again topped the list.

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  1. Anonymous10:30

    Ohrid is a surprising one

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    1. Anonymous10:32

      Most of Macedonia's Australian community is from Ohrid area.

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    2. Anonymous11:23

      you mean Pelagonia? OHD serves this region

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    3. Anonymous11:50

      @10.30 indeed

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    4. Anonymous11:53

      BITOLA

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    5. Anonymous16:31

      What about it?

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    6. Anonymous17:25

      First Macedonian immigrants in Aussie are from Ohrid,Bitola,Kicevo,Prilep,Struga,Gostivar,Debar, than are Skopje and rest of the cities. But yes all those passengers are from that region not from Skopje , they were using Skopje as point to come and go , now they use Ohrid which is great and close to their homes

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  2. Anonymous11:22

    uhm hello Qatar Airways?

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    1. maxi449213:37

      For me they were around 1000$ higher than Turkish - Singapore combo, and the flight time at the time of the booking was only an hour and half shorter.

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  3. Anonymous11:26

    interesting that SKP is not in the Top 10 to MEL or am i missing something

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  4. Anonymous11:40

    Any link to see full list of these or other transit flights?

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    1. Anonymous11:43

      😂was literally googling this the last 5 mins

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    2. SKP11:49

      SYD: London, Skopje, Athens, Belgrade, Rome, Paris, Ohrid, Berlin, Beirut, and Warsaw
      MEL: London, Athens, Rome, Izmir, Ankara, Adana, Ohrid, Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Paris

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    3. Anonymous12:00

      Interesting to see how strong demand there is both from SYD and MEL on a global level, I mean huge cities like Paris Rome and Berlin are behind SKP, and OHD is in between. Definitely there is room for one middle east to start flying to SKP again

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    4. Anonymous12:08

      but Paris and Rome have many options to choose from unlike Skopje but I do agree with the latter

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    5. Anonymous13:07

      bit hard to believe that OHD has more pax to MEL than SKP

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    6. Anonymous13:31

      You don't believe then

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    7. Anonymous13:45

      they didnt even fly to OHD the whole winter. In the same time there are more Macedonians in Victoria than in NSW. Would not be the first time there was a mistake from SF

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    8. Anonymous13:52

      Australian diaspora rarely flies to visit during winter. They go during European summer when it is winter in Australia and stay in Australia during the summer there. You obviously don't know much about the diaspora there.

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    9. Anonymous14:02

      its not only a one-way traffic

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  5. Anonymous11:53

    FlyDubai and Qatar Airways are still waiting for the return to Skopje…..

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    1. Anonymous11:58

      well now with the Iran thing going this is definitely postponed for some time

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    2. Anonymous17:22

      TAV will never let them to come back to SKP exactly because of all this transfer from IST and TK to Australia and Asia undertsand that

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    3. Anonymous18:10

      Lol Nejat Kurt is literally involved in the talks. What a stupid conspiracy nonsence

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    4. Anonymous19:52

      Involved in which talks ? You believe him ? Good just believe in that

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    5. Anonymous21:10

      no, we believe in you and чаршија

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    6. Anonymous21:22

      Aviation is not turska serija ...

      https://www.airports.com.mk/en-EN/media-centre/press-releases/page/tav-macedonia-participated-in-road-shows-in-finland-and-norway-aiming-to-open-new-direct-flights-to-the-scandinavian-countries

      "and is working intensively on restoring connections with the Middle East, namely Doha and Dubai, to expand the airline network and strengthen the connectivity of the two Macedonian airports."

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    7. Anonymous22:40

      Yes 3 years same talks and there is no even sign of Flydubai to come to Macedonia , thats why nobody believes in what they are saying!!!

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  6. Anonymous12:16

    is croatian diaspora avoiding TK or what :) I know there are QR and FZ

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    1. Anonymous12:31

      From Croatia you have Qatar which offers the best connections, followed by flyDubai and then you have Star Alliance. Croatia Airlines and Lufthansa shuttle passengers to Australia via Singapore through Frankfurt, Zurich and London where passengers connect onto Singapore airlines. British Airways is also popular for ZAG-LHR-SIN-SYD. And finally I know several people who went by car to Budapest and then flew from there on a Chinese airlines down to Australia.

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    2. Anonymous12:34

      You have Qatar and Flydubai (more than doubly the number of flights than ZAG) from Belgrade as well.

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    3. Anonymous12:48

      Backtracking to LHR, FRA or ZRH and changing planes twice makes little sense to me.
      Think QR and Flydubai should be the best options...even travelling to BUD by car makes more sense to me than flying to LHR first and then change planes in SIN....

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    4. Anonymous13:04

      i guess they simply dont fly to their ex-homeland that often as others.

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  7. Anonymous13:15

    I am so desperate to find data avout this. Is there any platform where this kind of data is published?

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    1. EX-YU Aviation13:28

      Yes, OAG provides this data. It is an expensive subscription service, mainly used by airlines.

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    2. Anonymous14:28

      Maybe we can share a password?

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    3. Anonymous16:29

      Someone is going to pay 10 000 EUR per year to share a password... right

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  8. Anonymous16:35

    Would have not expected Ohrid on this list but nice to see. Is TK even still flying to OHD?

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    1. Anonymous16:37

      yes during peak summer and now we know why

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    2. Anonymous17:21

      Yes their first flight is scheduled for 23th June and last one is 4th of October

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    3. Anonymous19:50

      Yes because all of those people living in Australia are origin from Ohrid such as Bitola,Prilep, Struga, and thats roughly 200k + people plus around 50k from the other cities in Macedonia

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  9. Anonymous17:18

    Now everyone understand why Flydubai and Qatar airways will never come back to Skopje ? I hope this info will open your mind to people saying no Turkish airlines doesnt have anything with their return ....

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    1. Anonymous18:06

      Quite the opposite

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    2. Anonymous19:48

      TAV will never open a chance for other carrier to overtake those transfers to Australia and Asia now when Turkish airlines flying there .... thats the reality that nobody accepts!!

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    3. Anonymous21:12

      LMAo

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  10. Anonymous21:23

    plot twist: Qatar Airways launches OHD instrad of SKP

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    1. Anonymous22:41

      There was talks with Airarabia to start both Skopje and Ohrid to Dubai or Abu dhabi but nothing happening ... :/

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  11. Anonymous22:56

    It should not surpising for Macedonia to rate in the top ten as there are not so many options to travel between two countries as it is case for other ex yu countries. But nice to see two cities in top for both destinations

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  12. Anonymous10:01

    Pretty much The balkans feed both routes. Now we have to see TK deploying their aircrafts to Bne(via Kul) Adl(via Bkk or Dps) , Per (Dps)

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