Wizz Air says diversification is driving its continued development within the Macedonian market, because the low value provider expands past conventional diaspora visitors with a broader mixture of leisure, city-break and regional routes. Talking to EX-YU Aviation Information, Wizz Air Community Officer Andras Szabo stated, “Macedonia is admittedly near our coronary heart. It is a market we extremely admire. We see a powerful development profile in Macedonia, which already began late final yr with important enlargement as we added plane and upgraded present primarily based plane from the A320 to the A321 sort. The expansion is coming from a number of kinds of journey. Now we have opened extra routes geared in direction of leisure and city-break visitors, and we’re certainly seeing demand for them. A few of them have been bolder selections, such because the Spanish routes, however we see there’s demand”.
Wizz Air has fuelled development to report ranges at each of Macedonia’s two worldwide airports this yr. In the course of the January – April interval, the pair dealt with a mixed whole of 852.573 passengers, representing a rise of 55% on the identical interval final yr. In the course of the first half of 2026, Wizz Air’s quantity of accessible seat capability within the nation has elevated 66.4% or by 623.560 seats.
Mr Szabo famous, “Macedonia is making robust efforts to market new flights, with each the airport and the nation working with us on route improvement. We’re additionally exploring completely different intra-Balkan connections, one thing we began a couple of years again with Ljubljana. On the similar time, we don’t wish to overlook routes to Italy, that are actually multi-purpose. I might not say they’re solely diaspora routes, as outbound journey can also be current. We’re additionally persevering with to broaden from Ohrid, which serves each for inbound and outbound journey. The perfect phrase is diversification, which is fuelling our development, and Macedonia stays very near our hearts”.
TAV Macedonia, the operator of Skopje and Ohrid airports, took half in final week’s Routes Europe improvement discussion board in Rimini, the place it held conferences with quite a few airline companions. The airport operator has recognized Helsinki and Amsterdam as key community targets, whereas additionally highlighting the broader Scandinavian market as an space with important development potential.
