Lufthansa has opted to take care of flights between Frankfurt and Skopje all through all the winter season, albeit with a considerably lowered schedule. Again in Might, the airline determined to droop the service from February 1 to March 28, 2026, throughout the 2025/26 winter timetable, which runs from October 26 to March 28. Nonetheless, this week the provider revised its plans and scheduled three weekly flights between the 2 cities, working on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays, all through February and March, a discount in comparison with the ten weekly companies maintained throughout the identical months this 12 months.
The route can be operated with the Airbus A319 plane throughout this two-month interval. In keeping with Lufthansa’s present schedule, the airline plans to run ten weekly flights in November and December, adopted by seven weekly rotations in January. The January schedule won’t characteristic a each day service however will embody two flights on choose days of the week.
In 2023, Lufthansa carried 73.456 passengers on its new Skopje service for a mean cabin load issue of 71.1% during the 12 months. Throughout its first full 12 months of operations, in 2024, it welcomed 105.653 travellers on the route, for a mean load issue of 72.7%. Information signifies that February and March noticed a number of the lightest masses on the route. In February and March of 2024, the provider dealt with 6.269 and seven.288 passengers between the 2 cities respectively. This resulted in a mean load issue of 53.1% in February, thought of the slowest month within the aviation business, and 64% in March.
Lufthansa commenced service to the Macedonian capital in late April 2023. It efficiently utilized for subsidies supplied by the Macedonian authorities to launch the route. This assist runs till December 30, 2025. Lufthansa faces no direct competitors, nevertheless, low value provider Wizz Air maintains operations from Skopje to Hahn, some 125 kilometres from the German metropolis’s foremost airport.
