Skopje "Alexander the Great" Airport

Macedonia will soon start replacing the old "Alexander the Great" name signs from Skopje airport and from the E-75 highway that leads toward Greece.

The government's decision to rename key infrastructure was published on Thursday in the official gazette.

The decision taken by Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his cabinet to rename the country's main airport and a main highway has been made official.

The alterations are meant to be a goodwill gesture as talks over the name issue with Greece continue.

The prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, said on Tuesday that Skopje is ready to accept a geographical qualifier to its name and that it has already followed through on pledges of good will to Athens.

The prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, said on Tuesday that Skopje is ready to accept a geographical qualifier to its name and that it has already followed through on pledges of good will to Athens.

An Austrian Airlines plane flying from Vienna to Pristina made an emergency landing in Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport on Sunday evening.

Tanjug reported this, citing the airport's PR service.

A small private plane flying from the Italian city of Treviso to Kosovo's capital Pristina crashed amid heavy rain on Tuesday evening in Macedonia, killing all six people on board.

Mitko Cavkov, head of Macedonia's Bureau for Public Security, said four Italians and two Kosovo citizens were killed in the crash.

Istanbul Atatürk Airport improved its service quality the most in Europe over the past year, its operator said March 1, while noting that another of its airports, Skopje Airport, had been selected the best in Europe in its category. 

The ASQ program selected the TAV-run Istanbul Atatürk Airport as "the most improved airport" in Europe.

Skopje airport authorities have launched an investigation to determine how the former secret police chief, Sasho Mijalkov, passed through airport security and boarded a plane to Belgrade with a pistol. 

An aircraft of Turkey's Pegasus Airlines safely made an emergency landing at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria on Friday afternoon, BGNES reported.

More than 6 million people traveled during the Eid holiday across Turkey, with around 5 million of them traveling by bus, 700,000 by air and 300,000 by rail, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency.