Skopje Airport

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Skopje Airport Аеродром Скопје Aerodom Skopje
IATA: SKP - ICAO: LWSK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		JPAU Makedonija
Serves		Skopje
Elevation AMSL		781 ft (238 m)
Coordinates		41°57′42″N, 21°37′17″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	8,038	2,450	Asphalt

Skopje Airport (IATA: SKP, ICAO: LWSK) (Аеродром Скопје, Aerodrom Skopje), also known as Petrovec Airport (named after its nearest village), is the largest and busiest international airport in the Republic of Macedonia. Serving the national capital Skopje, it is also the hub of MAT Macedonian Airlines.

In December 2006 the government of the Republic of Macedonia announced plans to rename the airport after Alexander the Great, sparking a renewed diplomatic spat with Greece, which considers Alexander the Great part of its own heritage (see Macedonia naming dispute).^[1]^[2] The new name is argued to create confusion with the already existing Kavala International Airport, "Megas Alexandros", which lies in the neighboring Greek region of Macedonia.^[3]

1 Accident History
2 Airlines and destinations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Accident History

On 5 March 1993 a Palair Macedonia Fokker F-100 PH-KXL bound for Zürich crashed seconds after takeoff from Skopje runway 34. Investigation into the accident determined the cause of the accident to be the failure of the flight crew to have the aircraft deiced before departure. Of the 97 people on board, 81 perished.