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