Qatar Airways suspends Sarajevo, Skopje flights
Qatar Airways has shelved plans to resume operations from Doha to both Sarajevo and Skopje at the start of the 2020/2021 winter season in late October. Services to both cities were suspended in March and were to be restored on October 25. However, all ticket sales have now been halted until the start of the 2021 summer season from March 28. The Qatari carrier is instead offering one-stop connections to the capitals of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia via Zagreb, Vienna and Istanbul in cooperation with Croatia Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Pegasus Airlines throughout the winter.
The carrier first introduced services to both Sarajevo and Skopje back in 2017 and has maintained them continuously with its Airbus A320 fleet until the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Flydubai will continue to link Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia with the Middle East this winter. The hybrid carrier, which has already resumed flights to Sarajevo, will serve the city three times per week past October 25, while services to Skopje resume on October 26 and will run twice per week. Qatar Airways handled 25. 856 passengers on flights to and from the Macedonian capital last year.
Services to the Qatari airline’s two other remaining destinations in the former Yugoslavia – Belgrade and Zagreb – will continue to operate into the winter as well, following their resumption in July. Services to Belgrade will run four times per week with the A320 jet until December 14, after which will increase to daily and be replaced with the larger A321. On the other hand, flights to Zagreb will run three times per week until December 14, after which it will increase to four weekly. All operations to the Croatian capital will run with the A320 aircraft. At this point, changes remain possible.
Qatar Airways continues to lead the aviation industry offering more global connectivity than any other airline. With the carrier’s network never falling below thirty destinations since the onset of the pandemic, its number of destinations will more than triple in size by mid-October, totalling over ninety. According to the latest IATA data, Qatar Airways became the largest international carrier between April to July.
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