Turkish Airlines’ low cost subsidiary AJet will launch three new seasonal summer routes to Skopje. The carrier will commence operations from Ankara, Mersin and Diyarbakir, complementing existing services from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Flights from Ankara will commence on May 31 and operate once per week until September 13. Services from Mersin’s Cukurova Airport, which also serves Adana, will launch a day later, on June 1. Flights will initially run weekly, increasing to two weekly from June 25 until their conclusion on September 28. Finally, the carrier will add a weekly rotation from Diyarbakir to the Macedonian capital, operating between June 29 and August 31. Tickets are now available for purchase through the airline’s website.
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AJet faces no competition on any of the three new services. Mersin, a port city in southern Turkey on the Mediterranean coast, has a population of just over a million people. On the other hand, Diyarbakir is the largest Kurdish-majority city in the country, located in the southeast. It will mark the first time either of the two will be linked to a city in the former Yugoslavia with a scheduled air service. All flights between Ankara and Skopje are currently scheduled to operate with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, except for two rotations which will run with the B737 MAX 8. The airline will also deploy the B737-800 on all flights from both Mersin and Diyarbakir to Skopje.
The three new routes will add an extra 21.872 seats onto the Macedonian market this summer. During the height of the season, AJet will boast eleven weekly flights to Skopje. Unlike last year, the carrier no longer maintains scheduled operations from Bodrum. During the ongoing summer season, a total of four airlines run flights between Turkey and Skopje. In addition to AJet, they include Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines and SunExpress. With the latest expansion, Skopje will be linked to a record six airports in Turkey this summer season on a scheduled basis.
