Pegasus adds 4th weekly Skopje - Istanbul flight in W12/13

With the start of the new winter schedule Pegasus is adding a 4th weekly service on its Istanbul S. Gokcen - Skopje route (beginning Nov 2 operating every Friday)

Schedule:

PC711 SAW 1105 - SKP 1135

PC712 SKP 1215 - SAW 1440

Adding the 10 weekly flights operated by Turkish Airlines to Skopje in the next winter season, Istanbul will remain the busiest route out of Skopje Alexander the Great Airport 

Kon Tiki Sky granted licence for double daily Skopje - Bucharest flights

The macedonian CAA has granted license to the romanian airline Alfa Air ( Kon Tiki Sky ) for operating double daily flights between Skopje and Bucharest Otopeni, for the period between 18.06 and 30.09.2012.

Alfa Air flights are were showing up in the schedule on the Skopje Airport's official webpage ( here the SKP schedule for 18.06.2012  ). However, this airline should be continued to be treated with caution, as all their plans in operating flights in the past have never realized.

The airline on its website (kontikisky.com) is currently advertising flights from Skopje to the following destinations: Basel, Stuttgart , Düsseldorf-Weeze, Berlin, Hamburg and Malmö all with a stop in Bucharest.

Wizz Air to launch 6 new routes from Skopje

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Update 14.06.2012

as anounced today by the macedonian government Wizz is openning the following six routes from Skopje:

Dortmund, Eindhoven, Munich-Memmingen, Milan  (twice weekly starting 28Oct)
Malmö (twice weekly starting 29Oct)
Basel (three weekly starting 30Oct)
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With the start of the next Winter schedule (end of October), Wizzair is opening a base at Skopje Alexander the Great Airport, launching flights to at least six new destinations. From an interview with the macedonian prime minister these destinations will include : Dortmund , Munich (Memmingen), Malmö, Eindhoven, Milan and Basel.

The official statement with all the detailed information regarding this development is expected for June 21st.

Wizzair is already operating flights to the macedonian capital, from London Luton and Venice-Treviso.

Flydubai is launching Skopje flights from Oct 2012

as announced today flydubai from Oct18 is launching twice weekly flights between Skopje and Dubai (mondays and thursdays) using  a BOEING 737-800NG, beeing the first non european scheduled flights ever at Skopje Alexander the Great Airport

Schedule:
FZ 791 DXB 0915  SKP 1240
FZ 792 SKP 1340  DXB 2050

one ways fare are starting by 244€

However, Skopje is not yet listed in the Emirates database making connecting flights to Asia and Australia impossible at the moment

Pegasus to cancel Skopje - Izmir sevice from October 2012

The turkish low cost airline is canceling its Skopje - Izmir service. Last flight for the 2 weekly operation is scheduled on 28 September 2012.

The airline launched services to Macedonia in August 2011.
Pegasus will maintain its 3 weekly flights to Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, offering connecting flights to various destinations incl. Izmir

Borajet to launch seasonal flights between Skopje and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçem

The turkish Borajet airline is launching weekly seasonal flights between Skopje and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçem Airport (21.04 - 27.10.2012)

The flights are operated saturdays only with one-way fares starting by 90€

YB3151

ISTANBUL

13:30

SKOPJE14:30

YB3152

SKOPJE

15:30

ISTANBUL

18:20

Borajet will be the third airline competing on the Skopje-Istanbul route along with Turkish Airlines and Pegasus. It will be Borajet's second attempt of operating flights to/from SKP after they have flown Skopje-Bursa for a short period of time in 2010.

Skopje Airport S12 Timetable

The macedonian Civil Aviation Agency released the timetable for the next summer season.
These are the weekly frequencies by each airline flying from/to Skopje ( scheduled flights only ) :

Austrian Airlines      VIE   11 x
JAT Airways            BEG  7 x  ( up to 13 x in peak season )
Croatia Airlines       ZAG  9 x
Turkish Airlines       IST   10 x
Adria Airways         LJU  11 x
Swiss / Edelweiss   ZRH  5 x
Wizz Air                  LTN   3 x , TSF  2 x
Belle Air Europe     FCO  2 x , AOI  2 x , VIE  2 x , DUS  2 x 
Pegasus Airlines    SAW  3 x , ADB  2 x
Air Berlin                 DUS  1 x
Jetairfly                   BRU  2 x ( 13.05 - 18.09 )
Beleair                    ZRH  3 x

Kon Tiki Sky to fly from Skopje to 14 destinations

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Update 12.06.2012 

for Malmö-Skopje flights (and more) please have a look here:
http://macedonianaviation.blogspot.de/2012/06/wizzair-to-launch-6-new-routes-from.html


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Update 03.06.2012  (due to the increased popularity of this article in the last few weeks)

Kon Tiki Sky have again started advertising flights to Skopje ( to begin on June 18 ) . There is no confirmation regarding these flights by the macedonian CAA yet , and you should NOT book any flight on their webpage until there is a statement from the macedonian authorities.
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Update 17.04.2012
since the beginning of April Kon Tiki Sky have removed Skopje from their destinations list.
The flights are not happening!
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Update 12.03.2012

according to their website , Kon Tiki Sky is now selling tickets only for Bratislava and its Italy bound flights (Ancona, Milan-Bergamo, Bologna, Triest and Rome) , all flights apparently to be begin on 07.05.2012. 

The start of the ticketsale for the rest of their distionations is pushed back to May,  and in the meantime they have axed their plans for opening a "base" in Antwerp.

There is no official information from the macedonian authorities regarding this development yet, and all this sudden change of routes and schedules is rather dubious.
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The serbian LCC Kon Tiki Sky (part of the KON TIKI Travel Tour Opertor) on its website announced flights from Skopje to 14 destinations , for what it looks to be the biggest development at Skopje Alexander the Great Airport since the opening of the new terminal



The destinations are:


Antwerp (2 weekly flights , starting May 1st) 

and the following beginning from June 18th:

Ancona (3weekly), Milan-Bergamo (3w) , Bologna (3w) , Rome (4w), Trieste (4w) , Bratislava (4w) ,
Basel (5w), Düsseldorf- Weeze (4w) , Stuttgart (2w) , Hamburg (2w) ,  Berlin (2w) , Malmö (2x) , Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen (2w)

Flights are open for reservation on their website http://www.kontikisky.com/ with one-way fares starting by 45€

New charter to Stuttgart

The travel agency Air Prishtina is connecting Skopje and Stuttgart with a weekly flight (saturdays), starting June 30th. The flights will be operated by XL Airways Germany (One-way fares starting by 80EUR)

GXL668 15:00 17:10 STR SKP
GXL669 05:40 08:00 SKP STR

airprishtina.com

JAT resuming seasonal flights to Ohrid

JAT is increasing the frequency on their seasonal flights to Ohrid. Between June 15th and September 15th the airline is flying 5 times a week between Belgrade and Ohrid with the following routing BEG - SKP - OHD - BEG. The total number of Skopje flights during the same period increases to 13 weekly.

Is Czech Airlines ending its Skopje service?

Czech Airlines has at the moment closed reservation for all flights betwen PRG and Skopje after March 25th.

With the departure of Czech Airlines there will be no SkyTeam carrier left at SKP.

new charters to Vienna and Geneva

new weekly summer charters to Vienna and Geneva are announced by airPrishtina, operated by Hello and XL Airways Germany   (both on saturdays)

FHE6297 SKP-GVA 10:50 12.50 30/06/2012-27/10/2012
FHE6296 GVA-SKP 13:40 15.40 30/06/2012-27/10/2012

GXL669 SKP-VIE 11:20 12.50 31/03/2012-13/10/2012
GXL668 VIE-SKP 13:40 15.10 31/03/2012-13/10/2012

(according to airprishtina.com)