MAT Macedonian Airlines

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MAT Macedonian Airlines

IATA IN	ICAO MAK	Callsign MAKAVIO
Founded		1994
Hubs		Skopje Airport
Focus cities / secondary hubs		Ohrid (Ohrid Airport)
Fleet size		3
Destinations		7
Headquarters		Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Key people		Bojan Sodnik (General Director)
Website: http://www.mat.com.mk

MAT (Македонски Авио Транспорт)-Macedonian Airlines is the national flag carrier of Republic of Macedonia operating from Skopje and Ohrid Airports.

1 History
2 New routes
3 Destinations
- 3.1 Domestic
- 3.2 International
  - 3.2.1 Europe
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[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. It is 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.

MAT Macedonian Airlines CRJ 900 (Z3-AAG)

[edit] New routes

Plans to open flights from Ohrid to Paris from May 1, 2007, futhermore has priorites to open flights to Copenhagen and Istanbul with the arrival of the second Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft. Also plans to open flights to Brussels before the end of 2006.

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Domestic

Republic of Macedonia
- Ohrid (Ohrid Airport)
- Skopje (Skopje Airport)

[edit] International

[edit] Europe

[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 (soon ending service with MAT)

[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] Previously operated

2 Boeing 737-200 (returned to previous owner)
1 Boeing 737-200 (returned to previous owner)
2 Boeing 737-300 (both returned to Jat Airways)
2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (both retired)
1 Yakovlev Yak-42 (returned to Saravia)
1 Embraer ERJ-170 (returned to Embraer after dispute)

[edit] Embraer and 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.