Lufthansa has opted to keep up flights between Frankfurt and Skopje all through the whole winter season, albeit with a considerably decreased schedule. Again in Might, the airline determined to droop the service from February 1 to March 28, 2026, through the 2025/26 winter timetable, which runs from October 26 to March 28. Nonetheless, this week the service 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 providers maintained throughout the identical months this yr.
The route will likely be operated with the Airbus A319 plane throughout this two-month interval. In accordance 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 is not going to function a every 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 median cabin load issue of 71.1% at some point of the yr. Throughout its first full yr of operations, in 2024, it welcomed 105.653 travellers on the route, for a median load issue of 72.7%. Information signifies that February and March noticed among the lightest hundreds on the route. In February and March of 2024, the service dealt with 6.269 and seven.288 passengers between the 2 cities respectively. This resulted in a median load issue of 53.1% in February, thought of the slowest month within the aviation trade, 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 price service Wizz Air maintains operations from Skopje to Hahn, some 125 kilometres from the German metropolis’s predominant airport.
