Passenger numbers at Macedonia’s international airports, in Skopje and Ohrid, rose by 48.1% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2021, reaching 849,003, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) said.
ADP owns 46% of Turkey’s TAV Airports, the company operating the airports in Skopje and the lakeside city of Ohrid.
In August alone, Macedonia’s international airports served 237,376 passengers, up by 160,917 passengers compared to August 2020, whereas in the last 12 months through August, passenger traffic fell 27.9% to 1.06 million, ADP said in a statement on Thursday.
Aircraft movements at the two airports rose 55.3% on the year to 9,472 in the January-August period, while in the 12 months to end-August the figure dropped by an annual 5.7% to 12,400. In August alone, aircraft movements at the airports reached 1,983, up by 969 compared to the same month last year.
Macedonia confirmed its first case of coronavirus on February 26 last year. In mid-March 2020, the government ordered the closure of the two airports to slow the spread of the disease. The airports reopened in July 2020.
