The Lufthansa Group has presented its 2025/26 winter season schedule, which runs from October 26, 2025, until March 28, 2026, with the German flag carrier set to suspend service between Frankfurt and Skopje in February and March. Ticket sales for this period have now been halted, with Lufthansa offering alternative connections via Vienna with Austrian Airlines instead. Based on the carrier’s schedule, it will operate its last flight between Frankfurt and Skopje for the upcoming winter on January 31, after which services will be suspended between February 1 and March 26. Operations are set to resume on March 27. Further changes at this early stage are possible.
Based on Lufthansa’s existing planned operations, the airline will run ten weekly flights between Frankfurt and Skopje in November and December, as well as a daily service in January. During the previous 2024/25 winter season, the carrier maintained ten weekly rotations between Frankfurt and Skopje in February and March. Lufthansa commenced service to the Macedonian capital in late April 2023. It successfully applied for subsidies provided by the Macedonian government to launch the route. This support runs until December 30, 2025. Lufthansa faces no direct competition, however, low cost carrier Wizz Air maintains operations from Skopje to Hahn, some 125 kilometres from the German city’s main airport.
In 2023, Lufthansa carried 73.456 passengers on its new Skopje service for an average cabin load factor of 71.1% for the duration of the year. During its first full year of operations, in 2024, it welcomed 105.653 travellers on the route, for an average load factor of 72.7%. Data indicates that February and March saw some of the lightest loads on the route. In February and March of 2024, the carrier handled 6.269 and 7.288 passengers between the two cities respectively. This resulted in an average load factor of 53.1% in February, considered the slowest month in the aviation industry, and 64% in March.
