Wizz Air celebrates nine years anniversary at Skopje base today. The new era for Skopje International Airport began on 31 October, 2012, at 10:45 AM when Wizz Air operated its first flight from Skopje base to Eindhoven. The flight was operated with Airbus A320 aircraft with 168 passengers and six crew members on board.
The very first flight of Wizz Air to Skopje was in June 2011 when the airline launched London Luton service, followed by Treviso which was launched in September 2011.
Wizz Air launched the first six new routes from Skopje base back in 2012 to Memmingen, Dortmund, Malmo, Milan Bergamo, Eindhoven and Basel, in addition to the Existing two routes to London Luton and Venice Treviso. All of them except Basel were operating twice a week. These eight new routes were planned to transport over 300.000 passengers in the first year and support over 300 local employments.
After around two years, in 2014, Wizz Air increased the number of its destinations from Skopje base on 11 with allocating the second Airbus A320 jet and launching three new routes to Frankfurt Hahn, Brussels Charleroi and Paris Beauvais. The airline also increased the flights to London and Memmingen on five times per week and to Eindhoven and Dortmund on three times per week.
in 2015, Wizz Air announced new Skopje expansion with the launch of five new routes to Oslo Sandefjord Torp, Barcelona, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg Luebeck and Nuremberg as well as the allocating of the third Airbus A320 jet. All of them were scheduled to operate twice a week.
In 2017, Wizz Air announced new routes from Skopje to Malta, Rome Ciampino and Vaxjo as well as the allocating of the fourth Airbus A320 aircraft.
two years later. in 2019 Wizz Air deployed its first two Airbus A321 aircraft to operate from Skopje base for the summer season. Four new routes were announced to Turku. Bremen, Karlsruhe / Baden - Baden and Larnaca as well as the fifth Airbus A320 jet.
Wizz Air reduced its fleet from five to four aircrafts in July last year due to the low demand caused by the travel restrictions and the pandemic. The Airline had a few changes in the schedule since then with some routes still suspended. Wizz Air based a two Airbus A321neo and one A320neo aircrafts at Skopje for the first time since the start of the global pandemic.
Today, Wizz Air has scheduled flights to 34 destinations from Skopje, including Turku, Oslo Torp, Stockholm Skavsta, Gothenburg, Vaxjo, Malmo, Copenhagen, Billund. Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin Brandenburg, Hannover, Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt Hahn, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe / Baden - Baden, Memmingen, Friedrichshafen, Eindhoven, Brussels Charleroi, London Luton, Paris Beauvais, Basel, Venice Treviso, Bologna, Milan Malpensa, Turin, Rome Fiumicino, Barcelona, Budapest, Bratislava, Malta and Larnaca.
The airline operates to 11 destinations to Germany, five to Italy and four to Sweden. The fifth jet is expected to be returned in mid December together with the start of the flights to Bologna, Turin and Billund.
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