Skopje International Airport is the 7th time winner of the Airport Service Quality Award in the category: ”Best Airport by size in Europe”. ACI’s awards winning ceremony took place on September 14th, in Krakow, Poland.
The General Director of TAV Macedonia, Metin Batak, received the Airport Service Quality or ASQ award for Skopje International Airport for 2021 by Airport Council International World or ACI World on a gala ceremony at ACI’s Customer Experience Summit in Krakow, Poland on September 14th.
Skopje International Airport is awarded with the ASQ award as the Best Airport by Size and Region (2 to 5 million passengers per year in Europe) for 2021 and this is the 7th time TAV Macedonia receives this award, after the ASQ Awards for Skopje Airport received for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013 and 2012.
“I am honored and proud to receive ACI’s ASQ award for Skopje International Airport for 2021, as the “Best Airport by Size and Region” and “Best hygiene measures by region”, here in Krakow, at the Customer Experience Global Summit. By participating in the ASQ Survey and evaluating Skopje Airport services, our passengers have confirmed TAV Macedonia’s hard work and commitment to improve customer satisfaction. Despite the fact that 2021 was a year when we were still strongly facing the effects of the global pandemic, TAV Macedonia, together with our sister companies – BTA (F&B), ATU (Duty Free), TAV MOS (Commercial services), TAV Technologies (IT services), Euroclean (Cleaning services), have jointly put superhuman efforts to provide added value to Skopje Airport’s travel experience. TAV will continue to follow the trends in the industry and to meet passenger’s expectations, as customers’ satisfaction is one of our main goals”, stated Metin Batak, TAV Macedonia General Manager.
As a participant in the ASQ Survey Program, Skopje International Airport competes with airports in the same size – from 2 to 5 million passengers annually and in the same region – Europe, thus in 2021, this ASQ Survey-panel consisted of a total of 11 airports: Madeira Airport, Krasnoyarsk Airport, Menorca Airport, Santiago Airport, Skopje Airport, Sola Airport, Tbilisi Airport, Tallin Airport, Vaernes Airport, Torino Airport, and Zagreb Airport. Additionally to competing, Skopje Airport can compare its results with a total of 253 airports worldwide that were ASQ participants in 2021, divided into 6 regions: Europe, Africa, Middle East, North America and Asia Pacific and Latin America- Caribbean.
“We are proud of Skopje International Airport for achieving an ASQ Award for the Europe region, in the 2 to 5 million passengers per year category—as part of ACI’s world-renowned Airport Service Quality program. As a long-time participant in the program, they have showed their dedication to a customer-centric approach, which is reflected in these excellent results. We congratulate their whole airport community on this achievement. Putting the passenger first is what ACI will continue to advance as we collectively move forward as an industry.” – ACI World Director General Luis Felipe de Oliveira said.
TAV Macedonia finished the first 8 months of 2022 with a total of 1,5 million passengers (1,549,440) passengers at both Macedonian airports - Skopje International Airport and Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport. This is a -13% compared to the same period of 2019, which is considered as a referent year in aviation, prior covid-19 appeared. Compared to the first 8 months of 2021 passenger numbers at Skopje and Ohrid airports are recovering, i.e., from January until August it showed increase by 83%.
Source: Skopje International Airport
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