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The Macedonian Ministry for Transport and Communications has issued a renewed public call for airlines to request financial support for the introduction of new European routes from Skopje and Ohrid airports for the period up to December 30, 2025. It comes after the previous tender was annulled due to errors with the documentation submitted by the three applicants which included Aegean Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. The same terms and conditions are applicable for the renewed call. Carriers interested in applying for the tender must be from Europe, have carried at least ten million passengers and generated 25 million euros in profit in 2019. Furthermore, the airline is obligated to continue operating the new routes past December 30, 2025, for a period of at least two to three years. If it fails to do so, it will have to return the funds granted by the state. Under the terms outlined in the public call, airlines must maintain flights to the newly launched destinations at least twice per week throughout the year for the duration of the financial assistance, develop a plan for marketing and promotion and submit a report on its operations to the Ministry of Transport and Communications every six months The Ministry will select the winner based on the number of weekly flights offered on the new routes, the volume of passengers at the destination airport (the busier the airport the greater the chance of the route being subsidised), as well as the amount of offered capacity. Funding will not be provided for routes from Skopje which have been operated from the airport in the past two seasons (summer and winter), nor from Ohrid if they have been operated either from the lakeside city or the Macedonian capital over the past two seasons. Macedonia will subsidise the services by providing each airline with seven euros per passenger on each new route from Skopje, and 4.5 euros per passenger on each new route from Ohrid. Interested applicants have until March 31 to submit their bids. The bids will be made public on April 4, after which the evaluation commission has fifteen days to declare the winner(s). EX-YU Aviation NewsBy: EX-YU Aviationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Title: Macedonia launches renewed airline subsidy tender
Sourced From: www.exyuaviation.com/2023/03/macedonia-launches-renewed-airline.html
Published Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:30:00 +0000
