Read Split but it is SKP... sorry for that

The observation is the same for both.

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Wizz always increases SKP in a two years cycle, nothing new. and BLQ is paused after Xmas and not for the entire winter

'Always' is vague and not a guarantee. But they do have lots of slack in the current base to expand wothout new aircraft if they reduce W pattern flights that SKP based aircraft do for elsewhere.

2027 is predicted to keep the current performance it is still early because the airport is expected to have new expansion with new routes the months that coming , but there is no decline for sure which is amazing

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@16:31 predicted by whom? can you provide analysis of this statement.

Predicted by all relevant sources that could be find online. From expected new routes , to W6 new expansion and increasing and adding new routes. I said above it is still early to talk about this most likely after new year we will have more info about it

Great! Although you have provided no concrete information at all.

Who are all these relevant online sources that predict the same growth???

Yeah its definatly wizzair-land. But thats fine, serves the market well.

thought its much higher then the 63,8%

Every market has a dominant airline is it Ryanair,Easyjet,Wizz air or something else there is nothing wrong with that. Yes Skopje do need more connections and options thats a fact and hopefully we will see more new routes in future coming. And yes Turkish routes are in demand and very succesfull out of SKP

@14:51 There are several airports in Europe of a similar size that spring to mind with similar % of dominance by a single LCC. Cork in Ireland is a bit smaller that Skopje in overall passenger numbers (lower, but not much, with Ryanair holding over 65% of all the traffic. Bigger players such as Bergamo and Brussels South are essentially single Airline dependent, not to mention Stansted. What is interesting, and good about Skopje is that Wizzair operate to a very broad range of routes that would never be financially viable with a national airline based out of the airport. All in all an interesting case study of an airport.

Most likely realistic numbers and surpass 4 next year which is also great

Nope, they will reach 4 million this year.

If handling 350k each of this three months yes , but lets see , I mean I cheer for that to happend this year as well

zero chance we will have decline in Nov and possibly also Dec

There is no decline in all three months that coming as well after New Year

Nobody predicts decline in passengers at all. Just a dramatic slowing of growth to single percentage points, which is great as well.

Exactly very nice explained buddy

Nov will have a decline in capacity, already confirmed by this blog

Very small percentage in Nov

Not sure where you got that from. Numbers are down on 2019.

calculate 2025 numbers and the gain from 2026 Jan-Sep and there you go if you can

2019 OHR had 317,218 and 2025 263.869 so if October is 30k and the rest two months 20k will surpass its 2019 numbers

@16.37 good that you will never be a math teacher

Jan-Sept it gained some 55k, add that to the 2005 numbers. Now all it has to do is to stay in the positive (or 0%) for the next 3months

2025* 😊

Which is unlikely to happen because it had fewer passengers than in 2019 in May, June, August and September.

17:08 sorry proffesor I said the numbers that are potential but it is wintet not summer so I hardly believe that those numbers will stood in winter as well

@17.30 and bizzarely you left out Jan-April where they outperformed 2019 by a big margin, also your statement re July ia totally wrong

^ i didn't mention july so you are seeing things. I left out January-May because there was growth. Read the comment above mine to which I was responding. The trend in the past few months is under 2019 levels and this will continue until the end of the year.

Again: they have plus 55k this year (jan-sept) already compared to 2025. If they will have at least the same results Oct-Dec as last year they will break their 2019 results

talking about Ohrid our morbidly deranged minister today said this: "Оваа година Охрид ќе помине 350.000–400.000 патници, со многу голема шанса да го замине Нишкиот аеродром" no comments

They will start implementing solutions for the winter fog issue, the space where the airport is in winter is very very heavily covered with fog its about the position of the airport. Second TAV prepares master plan for new concession in the next 30 years so we wait for it to be publicly shared and see what they are planing to invest. There is plan for terminal expansion as well , but nothing is specified with numbers yet. I agree the airport grows and need more space

Sadly the continued reliance on firewood, and coal for heating makes the fog issue even worse every winter which was of course less of an issue in the 1970s/80s and even when the city was smaller and far fewer cars. This has been very slow to change.
The airport remains quite pleasant to use I find, and I'm sure any expansion to the terminal will compliment it quite well.

More people migrating will equal more flights indeed.

*gasto routs

Same for most parts of exyu. If there hadn't been massive migration there wouldnt be demand for flights in the same quantity. Skopje airport never been more used, but the country never been less full.

same for Poland, Romania, Bulgaria ...

Indeed. Same for Portugal and Spain, Greece and Italy and Ireland etc. That is how population movements ultimately influence mobilities.

As someone observed, this was launched late this year (Feb), so its not impossible that they do the same for next year. However i would suspect it isn't coming back, but time will tell.