Low price service easyJet will discontinue one in all its two Skopje routes on the finish of the 2026 summer season season. The airline will terminate flights between Paris Orly Airport and Skopje after a yr and a half of operations. easyJet will initially scale back frequencies on the route from two to 1 weekly flight from August 15, forward of its closing service on October 24. The service will proceed to keep up operations between Geneva and Skopje, which had been restored final November following a year-long hiatus. Companies on this route will function twice per week all through the upcoming winter season, in addition to throughout the 2027 summer season season.
easyJet confronted oblique competitors on the route. Wizz Air maintains companies between Skopje and Beauvais Airport, which is marketed as Paris regardless of being situated almost ninety kilometres from the town centre. In distinction, Paris Orly Airport is located round twenty kilometres south of downtown Paris. Previous to easyJet’s entry into the market, Wizz Air dealt with 43.526 passengers on its Skopje – Beauvais service in 2024, reaching a mean annual load issue of 87.6%. The airline is working three weekly flights between the 2 airports throughout the present summer season season and plans to keep up two weekly companies over the approaching winter. easyJet has a base at Paris Orly Airport and ranks because the airport’s third-largest service by obtainable seat capability this yr, behind Transavia France and Vueling.
easyJet had beforehand mentioned it’s unfazed by Wizz Air’s presence on the Macedonian market. It famous, “easyJet is concentrated on its profitable technique to develop throughout Europe and operates in the very best pursuits of the corporate and its clients guaranteeing the attractiveness of its community. This implies the airline concentrates its efforts on sustaining and growing routes which show well-liked with passengers. We take into account competitors solely with regard of tactic alternatives that may be complementary to our technique”. Skopje Airport had beforehand mentioned one in all its essential targets is to safe nonstop connectivity to main European cities and huge hubs.
