Skopje, 2 April 2025 (MIA) – The low-budget airline EasyJet has officially launched its new direct Skopje-Paris Orly flight after the inaugural flight landed at the International Airport Skopje on Wednesday.
EasyJet will operate on this route twice a week, every Wednesday and Saturday.
The new flight was launched as a result of financial support from the government through the Ministry of Transport. Orly Airport is located about 20 kilometers south of the Paris city center, and in addition to EasyJet, airline service between Skopje and the French capital is maintained by Wizz Air to Beauvais” airport, located about 90 kilometers from the city center.
According to TAV Macedonia Deputy General Manager, Pero Lupevski,
EasyJet with its twice-weekly flights will provide not only a direct flight to Paris, but also connections to 160 other airports in 35 countries.
In line with the agreement, EasyJet will operate this flight until Dec. 31, 2027.
According to Deputy PM and Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski, this is yet another opportunity for better communication and connection with European countries and European capitals.
“Paris is an attractive travel destination, but more importantly, we will bring tourists to Macedonia. As a government, we are creating conditions that have attracted new airlines to Macedonia and the results are already visible. Eight new destinations from Skopje Airport and two from Ohrid Airport have been launched in a very short period of time. We have completely changed the subsidy model and instead of for departures, we are providing financial support for arriving passengers because the goal is for as many people as possible to visit Macedonia, which means that they will also use other services in the country, and this is a strategy that we have been implementing since the very beginning and which is giving us concrete results. We are already negotiating with other airlines and I think we are on the right track to reach an agreement for new destinations,” Nikoloski said in a statement. The Skopje-Paris flight is part of the agreement on financial support for introducing new airlines, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Transport through a public call for subsidies.
