Editing Skopje (section)

===Airport===
The airport was built in 1928. The first commercial flights in Skopje were introduced in 1929 when the Yugoslav carrier [[Aeroput]] introduced a route linking the city with the capital, Belgrade.<ref name="aeroput">[http://www.europeanairlines.no/drustvo-za-vazdusni-saobracaj-a-d-aeroput-1927-1948/ Drustvo za Vazdusni Saobracaj A D – Aeroput (1927–1948)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523020505/https://www.europeanairlines.no/drustvo-za-vazdusni-saobracaj-a-d-aeroput-1927-1948/ |date=23 May 2021 }} at europeanairlines.no</ref> A year later the route was extended to Thessaloniki in Greece, and further extended to Greek capital [[Athens]] in 1933.<ref name="aeroput"/> In 1935 Aeroput linked Skopje with [[Bitola]] and [[Niš]], and also operated a longer international route linking [[Vienna]] and Thessaloniki through [[Zagreb]], Belgrade and Skopje.<ref name="aeroput"/> After the Second World War, Aeroput was replaced by [[JAT Airways|JAT Yugoslav Airlines]], which linked Skopje to a number of domestic and international destinations until the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

[[Skopje International Airport]] is in [[Petrovec, North Macedonia|Petrovec]], {{cvt|20|km|abbr=off}} east of the city. Since 2008, it has been managed by the Turkish [[TAV Airports Holding]] and it can accommodate up to four million passengers per year.<ref name="tav">{{cite web |url=http://www.tavhavalimanlari.com.tr/en-EN/Pages/Announcements.aspx?aID=87 |title=TAV Airports puts the New Skopje Airport into service |year=2011 |publisher=TAV Airports |access-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226111850/http://www.tavhavalimanlari.com.tr/en-EN/Pages/Announcements.aspx?aID=87 |archive-date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The annual traffic has constantly risen since 2008, reaching one million passengers in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=198675 |title=FYR Macedonian airports anticipate busy 2015 |publisher=Balkans.com |access-date=10 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403142152/http://balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=198675 |archive-date=3 April 2015}}</ref>

Skopje's airport has connections to several European cities, including [[Athens]], Vienna, [[Bratislava]], [[Zürich]], Brussels, [[Oslo]], [[Istanbul]], London and [[Rome]]. It also maintains a direct connection with [[Dubai]] and [[Doha, Qatar]].