Skopje Airport working to restore Gulf flights
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Skopje Airport Is working on restoring links to the Gulf, over two and a half years after flights were shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic. Flydubai and Qatar Airways maintained services from Dubai and Doha respectively to Skopje up until March 2020. Since then, Flydubai scheduled its return to the Macedonian capital on two occasions but never followed through on its plans, while Qatar Airways has told EX-YU Aviation News services to Skopje would resume once commercially viable. The General Manager of airport operator TAV Macedonia, Metin Batak, noted, “Almost all destinations maintained from Macedonia’s two airports prior to the Covid-19 crisis are now back, except for Doha and Dubai from Skopje Airport. TAV Macedonia is working to retrieve these two destinations, as they offered solid transfer connections for the Macedonian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand, as well as connections for travellers going to Japan, China, India and exotic destinations in the East”. Flydubai launched flights to Skopje in October 2012. In its last three years of operations, passenger numbers averaged at around 27.000 per year. Qatar Airways handled 29.856 travellers on its Skopje route in 2019. The majority of its Skopje passengers were transfers. They primarily originated or were destined for the Australian market - 33%, followed by India 7%, Thailand 5% and Singapore 4%.
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