This summer season, for the third time M-NAV has broken the record for the number of flights over Macedonian sky! For the first time, a record-breaking number of a total of 1042 flights over Macedonian sky was recorded on 29th of June, on the 06th of July a total of 1091 flights were recorded, and for the third time with a total of 1 113 flights, 1040 over flights and 73 departures/landings from our airports in Skopje and Ohrid.
Like last year, this year’s record was also exceeded for the first time on the last Saturday of June. The previous record achieved last year on August 11th, 2018 was 1028 flights, which record was first surpassed by 14 flights, July 6th by 63 flights and now on August 10th by 85 flights!It shall be taken into account that achievement of these records did not produce a minute of delay for the users of the Airspace.
The trend of continuous air traffic growth continued in the first half of the year of 2019 as well when an air traffic increase of 18.5% of the total traffic was recorded. During the first six months of 2019, M-NAV handled a total of 97 883 operations while in the year of 2018 it handled 82 619 operations.
When compared to 2017 a growth of 34% was recorded but when compared to 2016 there was substantial growth of even 59.3%.
Regarding the total traffic, the peak month is the month of February when it was recorded a total air traffic increase of 25.7% monthly when compared to previous year.
The trend of continuous traffic growth is expected to continue throughout the rest of the year.
Maintaining a high level of professional competence and the devotion of all employees of M-NAV enabled the air traffic growth and it adds to the fact that the increasing number of air traffic has been handled with the same number of Air Traffic Controllers in the recent 10 years, but for the purpose of maintaining continuous performance we impatiently await for the new colleagues who currently undergo training. M-NAV once again expresses thanks and congratulations to Air Traffic Controllers and to all professionals in the Company who continuously contribute to company progress and development.