Cheap flights increased number of passengers at the Macedonian airports. The number of bookings for the flights of low cost airlines, and increased travel opportunities. Early summer placed offer from Skopje and Barcelona, Oslo, Nuremberg, Hamburg and Friedrichshafen, which immediately increased the frequency of the airport “Alexander the Great”. Depending on the time of booking the ticket price varies, but those who have clear plan for journey can have minimal costs, writes Lider.
-We are happy we have five new lines and the total number of airlines “Wizair” from Skopje reached 19. With prices starting from 599 MKD we hope to haul many passengers, said the spokesman the Hungarian company, Daniel de Carvalho.
Istanbul, Vienna and Zurich are the destinations that people travel to most, but the low-cost airlines to London, Basel, Malmö, Dubai are becoming increasingly attractive, which is proved by the number of sold tickets.
Hungarian “Wizair”, the company that is subsidized by our Government with the aim of spreading the network destinations already shipped half of the total number of passengers.
-With the introduction of new airlines we have created opportunity through affordable tickets to visit the most desirable and most attractive cities in Europe. Citizens with cheap tickets can easily travel, which is function of the development of economy, education, culture, health, tourism, sais Transport Minister Vlado Misajlovski.
The figures confirm the justification of subsidies
Subsidies for opening new destinations at competitive prices for Macedonian citizens proved correct move. The number of passengers and is only matter of time before we will reach two million passengers a year.
-Generally, I am satisfied with the number of passengers. In the first five months of the year are transported 506,000 people, an increase of 17% compared to last year. Remains a challenge to reach the figure of 1.278 million passengers, last year went through Macedonian airports this year to overcome by using new lines, consideres the head of the Ministry of Transport.
In line with the authorities and the concessionaire is the Macedonian airports, Turkish TAV.
-Since TAV started the management of the two airports in the country we have large increase in the number of passengers and air operations. In 5 years period, the growth is 75%, which eventually led to this, last year to overcome the number of million passengers. The new destinations are expecting growth to exceed 20%, says the head of “TAV Macedonia”, Zoran Krstevski.
Ohrid reached Basel!
Ohrid reached the new line to Basel. It is established direct relationship throughout the year. Past week came the first 179 passengers from Switzerland.
-This line is year-round, and is the second city of Basel in Switzerland that serves Ohrid, is known as center in which live many migrant workers from Ohrid and Struga region, said Krstevski, and added that the new line will be in favor for tourism and business development in this region.
Macedonia has developed new network of destinations
In the summer timetable, valid until October 24, 2015, the same year, are readily available following destinations: Barcelona, Basel, Belgrade, Brussels, Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Dubai, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg Istanbul, Ljubljana, London, Malmo, Milan, Munich, Nuremberg, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Split, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Zagreb and Zurich.
