Skopje International Airport
Address: 1043, Petrovec, Macedonia
IATA airport code: SKP
ICAO airport code: LWSK
Alias: Skopje Alexander the Great Airport and Petrovec Airport
Tel: +389 (0) 2 3148 333
Web: skp.airports.com.mk
SKP arrivals today
About Skopje International Airport Arrivals
Skopje International Airport (Меѓународен аеродром Скопје) is the country’s main airport. It is located in North Macedonia. The airport for the locals is called ‘Аеродром Скопје’. If flying to Skopje is not an option for you then you could go for another airport in North Macedonia. The location of this airport St. Paul the Apostle Airport is further away but still easy to travel to. It is the largest airport in North Macedonia. Another important airport in the country is the one near Lake Ohrid. Wizz Air offers many flights to different destinations in Europe. It uses 1 runway and a relatively new terminal was built in 2011. Since then, the capacity has increased considerably, resulting in an immediate increase in passenger numbers from 700 thousand to almost 2.4 million per year.
Most busy flight routes
History
The first Skopje arrivals were there about 100 years ago in 1928. Not much later, commercial flights were also operated by Aeroput with a route to Belgrade. A few years later, this airline also operated regional flights to the Greek cities of Athens and Thessaloniki. Jat Yugoslav Airlines took over commercial flight routes after World War II and expanded to more international flights.
There have been a new terminal and an extended runway officially opened in 2011. The number of passengers at the airport has grown significantly in recent years, with the airline Wizz Air playing an important role.
Terminal Skopje Airport
The airport has a modern terminal consisting of two floors. On the ground floor you will find the check-in desks on the right. You will arrive at SKP Arrivals on the left side of the building. The departure hall is located on the first floor of the terminal.
Passenger statistics
In the past 10 years, the number of passengers has tripled to 2,360,400 people in 2019. That is 19,177 Skopje airport arrivals. Most Skopje arrivals are from Wizz Air. It even has a 65 percent market share. Far behind that comes Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Germania Flug. Despite the popularity of Wizz Air, the 2 busiest routes to Istanbul and Zurich are handled by Pegasus and Turkish Airlines, Germania Flug, Edelweiss Air and Helvetic Airways.
Skopje Airport flight routes
There are a small number of airlines available at this airport. Some of these that offer most flight routes are:
- Air SERBIA, Austrian Airlines, Corendon Airlines, Edelweiss, FlyDubai, Pegasus Airlines, Qatar Airways, Sunexpress, Swiss International Airlines, Turkish Airlines, and Wizz Air.
Some other frequent Skopje Airport arrivals besides the earlier mentioned ones are Basel Switzerland, Mulhouse France, Freiburg Germany, Malmo and Bratislava. Some routes that have just one or a few flights a week:
- Friedrichshafen
- Hamburg
- Eindhoven
- Hahn
- Baden
- Warsaw WAW Chopin
- Belgrade
- Zagreb
- Dortmund
- Cologne
- London Luton
- Berlin Brandenburg
- Charleroi Brussels South
- Copenhagen
- Geneva