airBaltic Teams Up with Booking.com

02.08.2012 06:05 | Latvia

Author: Janis Vanags
Source: Air Baltic Corporation

The Latvian national airline airBaltic and Booking.com, the leading worldwide online hotel reservations agency by room nights sold, have teamed up to offer more convenient travel for customers.

Michael Grimme, Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing of airBaltic: “airBaltic.com is a travel megastore offering everything from flights, to hotels, cars, insurance, sunglasses for your beach holiday, and even roses onboard. Teaming up with Booking.com was a natural choice as it offers our customers a reliable hotel booking service in any of airBaltic’s 60 destinations in Europe, Middle East, Russia and the CIS.”

airBaltic customers can make their hotel booking at http://www.airbaltic.com/ and choose from over 200 thousand hotels in 173 countries.

airBaltic serves 60 destinations with direct flights from its home base in Riga, Latvia. From every one of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.

airBalticin brief:

AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. The primary shareholder is Latvian state with 99.8% of stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 34 aircraft – six Boeing 737-500, eight Boeing 737-300, two Boeing 757-200, ten Fokker 50 airplanes and eight 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. 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. In 2012, airBaltic was ranked by Airlinetrends among the Top 10 airlines globally for innovations.