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Jan

28

airBaltic to Launch Four New Routes from Vilnius

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Latvian national airline airBaltic will launch new flights from Vilnius to Dublin, Hamburg, Manchester, and Oslo, thus offering already 13 direct flight routes from Vilnius. airBaltic will start direct flights to Dublin on March 29, to Hamburg on March 30, and to Manchester on March 31. The airline will operate the first flight to Oslo on May 17.
Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “After profitable year 2009 and with a positive outlook for 2010, airBaltic is expanding the network of direct routes from Vilnius to strengthen our position in Lithuania.”Nonstop flights from Vilnius to Hamburg will be offered by airBaltic three times a week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The flight on board a Boeing 737 aircraft will take two hours and 40 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LTL 170 (EUR 49), including airport fees and transaction charges.
Flights to Manchester will be offered twice a week – on Wednesdays and Saturdays (Thursdays and Sundays from Manchester to Vilnius). Passengers will board a Boeing 737 aircraft for a flight that will last for three hours and 30 minutes, with one-way ticket prices starting at LTL 185 (EUR 54), including airport fees and transaction charges.
Passengers travelling to Dublin will use flights on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays (Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Dublin to Vilnius), boarding a Boeing 737 aircraft for a flight that will last for three hours and 30 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LTL 185 (EUR 54), including airport and transaction fees.
Direct flights to the Norwegian capital of Oslo will be offered by airBaltic four times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Boeing 737 aircraft will take two hours to get to Oslo, with one-way ticket prices starting at LTL 105 (EUR 30), including airport and transaction fees.
For 2009 airBaltic has announced 20 million EUR preliminary profit, and achieved 6% passenger growth to 2.75 million passengers. In 2010, airBaltic will open at least nine new direct routes from Riga, and has so far announced destinations such as Madrid, Belgrade, Vaasa, Umea, Beirut, and Amman. The number of direct routes from Vilnius, announced by airBaltic over the past month, already total 10 – London, Paris, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Hamburg, Manchester, Dublin, and Oslo.

Jan

6

airBaltic Flights from Vilnius to Amsterdam and Rome

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Latvian airline company airBaltic restores direct flights from Vilnius to Amsterdam and Rome.
On Monday, the 4th of January, the flights to Amsterdam, and on the 11th of January, the flights to Rome shall be started from Vilnius International Airport.
Passengers will be able to travel to Amsterdam 4-5 times a week. Morning flights shall be carried out to the capital of the Netherlands, which shall be convenient for multiple-stop flights. airBaltic plans to fly to 3 times a week – on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
All restored flights shall be carried out by „Boeing 737-500“ types of aircrafts.
In the meantime, 16 airline companies fly from Vilnius to regular directions that make 21 direct route overall.

Dec

24

airBalticOutlet – Branded Goods for Delivery to Your Seat

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Latvia’s national airline airBaltic is launching an Internet shop in December of this year – airBalticOutlet.com. Customers can purchase leading branded goods for lower prices, with delivery on board an airplane. The products include perfumery, cosmetics, accessories, sweets, and airBaltic and Latvian souvenirs.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “Shopping does not come any easier than this. We want to give our passengers a chance to choose branded goods for low prices. Perfumes, cosmetics and accessories, moreover, are a fine addition to the wide range of products that are available on the airBaltic homepage – www.airbaltic.com. All the products will be delivered to customers personally during their flights with us.”

The products are available only to airBaltic passengers, and they can be purchased no later than 48 hours before the selected flight. When purchasing products at airBalticOutlet, passengers simply enter their flight reservation number on the Internet page. The products will then be delivered to the flight, which the passenger is taking.

This service is available to passengers who travel from Riga or via Riga. When transit passengers register themselves in the Internet shop, they simply enter the number of their flight from Riga.

The whole range of products can be seen on www.airbalticoutlet.com. It is also accessible from a link on the airBaltic.com page.

Nov

9

airBaltic Introduces Check-in Fee

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On November 16, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will introduce a fee of EUR 5 per passenger for check-in at the airport. Members of the BalticMiles loyalty programme will continue to be able to check in for free.

airBaltic President and CEO Bertolt Flick: “airBaltic wants to offer additional privileges to members of the BalticMiles loyalty programme. Free check-in at the airport is another way of encouraging people to sign up for the programme. We are confident that BalticMiles points will become a parallel currency in future, because increasing numbers of partners will be joining the programme and members will earn and spend points almost everywhere - when talking on the phone, filling up petrol in your car, buying milk and bread, or using dry-cleaning services, for instance.”

Passengers who do not yet have a BalticMiles card will be able to join the loyalty programme right at the check-in counter at the airport, in order to avoid the fee. The EUR 5 check-in fee will take effect on November 16. It will apply to passengers in economy class who have purchased their tickets after the announcement of the new rules on November 4.

The check-in fee will not be charged from passengers with reduced mobility, children up to the age of 12, and passengers who check in on the Internet. The fee will also be waived for passengers departing from airports at which Web check-in is not available.

The BalticMiles loyalty programme:

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Nov

3

airBaltic Refunds Ticket Costs to Those Who Have Lost Their Job

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Eurostat – the statistical office of the EU – has reported a record-breaking unemployment level in the European Union during the last nine years, by listing the Baltic States in the very top of the list, according to the proportion of their unemployed population. Latvian national airline airBaltic continues its commenced efforts and is refunding full cost of economy class ticket to those passengers who have lost their job during the period from purchase of the ticket until a day of flight.

Eurostat has concluded that the unemployment level in Latvia in September reached 19.7%, while the relevant levels in Estonia and Lithuania were 13.8% and 13.3% accordingly.

Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of Latvian national airline airBaltic emphasises: “More and more people of the Baltic States are losing their jobs, therefore we must be understanding towards our passengers by refunding money that has been spent for purchase of flight tickets. Unfortunately, the current situation shows that we will not be able to cease this privilege within the near future because recovery of economy is expected in 2011 only”.

Customers of airBaltic are kindly invited to visit the offices of the airline where they have the opportunity to receive ticket refund, by presenting a correspondingly prepared statement on individual’s status of unemployment, issued by the State Employment Agency (Latvia), the Employment Exchange (Lithuania), or the Unemployment Insurance Department (Estonia).

The said refund applies to tickets of economy class only which are purchased after April 16, 2009.

Oct

12

airBaltic announced Airline of the Year Gold Award winner

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Latvian airline airBaltic was announced Airline of the Year 2009/2010 Gold Award winner on October 8 by European Regions Airline Association (ERA). The award was announced at the 2009 General Assembly of ERA in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic: “We are very pleased that airBaltic is recognized Airline of the Year by the regional airline business community and media. airBaltic will continue its path of development and growth despite the challenging and complex market conditions.”

The ERA panel of experts had no doubt in choosing airBaltic as the Airline of the Year, and named the below reasons for their choice – airBaltic succeeded in developing a new business model from a point to point low cost operator into a network carrier; building an important international hub in Riga in a period of severe economic crisis in the Baltic markets.

The ERA Airline of the Year Award was introduced in 1991 and has since grown to become the most widely recognised industry award in this sector. The ERA Airline of the Year award recognizes success and achievement made by a member regional airline, considering the context and specifics of individual airline’s operating conditions.

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Dec

19

airBaltic expands flight network in the world in a five continents

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The biggest air company in the Baltic “airBaltic” signed a cooperation agreement with the airline, British Airways, the UAE and Emirates airlines, so from now, passengers will have a wider choice of flights to the United States, Canada, South America, Africa, India and Asia.

The winter, traveling with airBaltic from Riga will be able to achieve the 13 United States cities (Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Fyniksą, Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington), 4 cities Canada (Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). The flights will be carried out through London.

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