MAT Macedonian Airlines
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| MAT Macedonian Airlines | ||
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| IATA IN |
ICAO MAK |
Callsign MAKAVIO |
| Founded | 1994 | |
| Hubs | Skopje Airport | |
| Focus cities | Ohrid (Ohrid Airport) | |
| Fleet size | 2 | |
| Destinations | 9 | |
| Headquarters | Skopje, Republic of Macedonia | |
| Key people | Bojan Sodnik (General Director) | |
| Website: http://www.mat.com.mk | ||
MAT Macedonian Airlines (Macedonian: Македонски Авио Транспорт, Latinic: Makedonski Avio Transport) is the national flag carrier of Republic of Macedonia operating from Skopje and Ohrid Airports.
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[edit] History
The airline was established on 16 January 1994 and started operations on 23 June 1994 flying from Skopje to Zürich using a Boeing 737-200. Until 2000, Jat Airways - the national airlines of Serbia was in charge of the airlines maintenance, aircrafts, root planning and provided pilots, cabin crew and 2 Boeing 737-300 aircraft to MAT. Jat Airways sold it's stake in the airline on the verge of the new millennium and relationship between the two became cold in 2005 when the Serbian airline grounded one of its leased out aircrafts to MAT at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport claiming that MAT owed millions for the two B737's. The airline returned both to Jat Airways after the accusations.
The loss of its two key aircrafts in summer 2005 caused head aches to the management as the airline had no fleet for the peak summer season. Instead it relayed on small regional aircrafts it leased from multiple Balkan based airlines on short term periods. It finally bought its own aircraft in April 2006.
MAT is now owned by Zivko Gruevski (48.43%) and Zlatko Petrovski (48.43%) (at January 2005). The Government of Republic of Macedonia in the year of 2000 signed an agreement with MAT that gave MAT the status of National flag carrier of Republic of Macedonia in the following 10 years. The management team from MAT has brought in experts from Slovenia to help the airline with new aircraft orders and airline restructuring.
[edit] Destinations
- The airline has plans to open flights from Skopje to Paris from june 12, 2007, futhermore has priorites to open flights to Copenhagen and Ancona with the arrival of the second Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft.
[edit] Domestic
[edit] International
[edit] Europe
- Austria
- France
- Paris (Charles De Gaulle Airport) [starts June 12, 2007 from Skopje]
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Amsterdam (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport) [starts June 12, 2007 from Skopje]
- Switzerland
- Turkey
[edit] Fleet
As of August 2006 the MAT Macedonian Airlines fleet includes:[1]
- 1 Bombardier CRJ-900 Z3-AAG
- 1 Boeing 737-300 Z3-AAF
[edit] Orders
- 2 Bombardier CRJ-900 (one arriving in April 2007 and another in April 2008). Macedonian Airlines (MAT) took delivery of a Bombardier CRJ900 regional jet on April 13, 2006. In addition to this firm-ordered aircraft, the contract with MAT also includes conditional orders for two additional CRJ900 airliners. The list price value for the delivered aircraft is approximately $28 million US.
[edit] Embraer-MAT dispute
For a very short time, MAT owned an Embraer jet. It operated in full Macedonian Airline colours. However, Embraer took the aircraft back a few months later for reasons that are not known to the public. MAT had another Embraer on order however it never arrived.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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