airBaltic opens office in Tbilisi, Georgia

17.11.2010 06:10

Author: Janis Vanags
Source: A/S Air Baltic Corporation

November 16, the Latvian national airline airBaltic opens its office in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “We have been operating flights to Tbilisi since 2006 up to seven times a week depending on the season. Opening of the office in Tbilisi is just another step in airBaltic’s development towards strengthening its position in the Caucasus.”

The new airBaltic office is located at 72 Phaliashvili Street, Tbilisi. airBaltic provides flights for lower prices and connects the Georgia’s capital Tbilisi with the most important airports in the Western Europe, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean Sea region and the Middle East. The flight schedule is available on the company’s homepage www.airbaltic.com.

The airBaltic office will offer information about products and services, sale of flight tickets, airBalticTravel.com low price travel packages (flight + hotel), passenger name, flight date and route change services, payments for checked-in baggage, airBalticcard Mobile phone card, as well as airBaltic souvenirs and gift cards. New office will also serve members of BalticMiles loyalty programme.

At present airBaltic has offices outside Latvia in Berlin, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Klaipeda, Tallinn, Tbilisi and Vilnius.

airBaltic operates direct flights from Riga to 80 destinations. Irrespective of the place of departure airBaltic offers convenient connections from its North Hub Riga to destinations of the company’s route network in Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, the CIS and the Middle East.

airBalticin brief:

AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. The primary shareholders are the Latvian state, with 52.6% of stock, and SIA Baltijas aviācijas sistēmas, with 47.2% of stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 29 aircraft – six Boeing 737-500, eight Boeing 737-300, two Boeing 757-200, ten Fokker 50 airplanes and three Bombardier Q400Next Gen. airBaltic offers nonstop flights from three Baltic capital cities – Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. airBaltic received the title of Airline of the Year 2009/2010 (Gold Award) from the European Regions Airline Association. airBaltic is the winner of Air Transport World Phoenix Award 2010 – a global recognition of excellence in restructuring business. In summer 2010, airBaltic was chosen for anna.aero ANNIES Award as Europe's largest flag carrier by new routes. airBaltic won a special Pacesetter Award 2010 from the Jury of the Budgies World Low Cost Airline Awards, recognising achievements of airBaltic as a hybrid airline.