Flying to the Balkans

There are a number of airlines flying to the Balkans.  If we decide to take the Turkish Airlines flight, it will stop over at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on its way to our first destination in Skopje.

In June last year, that airport was closed after three suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and injured over 200.  As it has been reported that there is a high threat from terrorism we decided to take the British Airways flight which stops at Heathrow airport for a connecting flight to Zagreb as they do not have a direct flight to Skopje.


This was our flight schedule planned by the travel agency.  It would have been a total of 17 hours 35 minutes to get to Skopje with almost 4 hours waiting time for connecting flights.

ITINERARY

DATE

DAY

DEP

ARR

FLIGHT

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KLIA - LONDON HEATHROW

27JAN

FRI

0005

0550

BA34

LONDON HEATHROW - ZAGREB PLESO

27JAN

FRI

0825

1145

BA848

ZAGREB PLESO - SKOPJE

27JAN

FRI

1410

1545

OU368

SOFIA INTL - LONDON HEATHROW

06FEB

MON

1410

1545

BA891

LONDON HEATHROW - KLIA

06FEB

MON

1855

1520+1

BA33

To shorten our flight and waiting time we decided to make a stop over at Zagreb for one night to tour the capital on our own and take the Croatia Airlines OU366 the following day.

ITINERARY

DATE

DAY

DEP

ARR

FLIGHT

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KLIA - LONDON HEATHROW

27JAN

FRI

0005

0550

BA34

LONDON HEATHROW - ZAGREB PLESO

27JAN

FRI

0825

1145

BA848

ZAGREB PLESO - SKOPJE

28JAN

SAT

2115

2245

OU366

SOFIA INTL - LONDON HEATHROW

08FEB

WED

1410

1545

BA891

LONDON HEATHROW- KLIA

08FEB

WED

1855

1520+1

BA33

That decision extended our holiday to 13 days in the Balkans.



Checking in our luggage at KLIA on 27 January 2017.

Waiting for our flight to be called for departure.