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Home / Press room / Baltic Outlook / April/May 2006

Baltic Outlook

April/May 2006

Editorial
The years 2004 and 2005 were period of extremely high growth for airBaltic. In 2005, passenger numbers rose from 589 thousand to 1,04 million, an increase of 76%. Turnover increased by 64% from 73.4 to 120.4 MEUR. Operating results EBITDAR increased by 44% from 9.63 to 13.87 MEUR.
Bertolt Flick
 

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New routes from Riga
This spring, airBaltic is opening up six new direct routes to destinations across Europe and beyond. Baku, Bergen, Düsseldorf, Tbilisi, Simferopol and Warsaw will all be added to the network, deepening airBaltic’s penetration of both East and West.
 

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Opening up the East
Expanding the range of business and leisure opportunities in the East, airBaltic is also opening direct flights to the key Caucasian capitals of Baku and Tbilisi this spring.
 

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Yalta: Black Sea marvel
The most popular tourist destination in the former USSR was the Black Sea resort of Yalta, built around the Crimean cliffs in the warmth of the “velvet climate.” Built by the wild tribe of the Tauri in the time of Homer and Aristotle, settled by Genoese traders and conquered by the Ottoman sultans, Yalta has welcomed Tsars and tyrants, poets and presidents across its rich and vivid history.
 

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Expanding operations in Vilnius
Continuing our successful operations from Vilnius, airBaltic has also opened more direct routes from the Lithuanian capital. At the end of March, the inaugural flights took off for Stockholm and Budapest.
 

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Pearl of the Danube: from Vilnius to Budapest
Founded by the Celts as the centre of their Danubian kingdom, and occupied by the Romans as the capital of the province of Pannonia, Budapest’s tradition of rulership goes back more than two thousand years. Sited at a strategic crossing-point over Europe’s greatest river, and commanding the main route from the Black Sea into the West, it has married political power with economic wealth, and its glorious history is written in its stones.
 

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AirBaltic introduces volume ticketing
Starting this February, airBaltic has introduced a new service: volume sales of flight tickets. This offer is intended for those passengers and businesses who fly frequently and often plan their journeys at the last minute. By buying tickets in volume, they can safely count on fixed flight expenses, as well as saving time on travel arrangements.
 

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AirBaltic launches low-cost model
Yet another new service for airBaltic this spring is the introduction of one-class ticketing. This new offer, which will initially apply on flights from Riga to Bergen, Hamburg, Helsinki and Oslo, means that all seats on the flights in question are economy-class only, with ticket prices starting at LVL 5 (EUR 7) plus airport taxes. Food and refreshments are available on the buy-on-board principle.
 

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New Corporate Customer Programme
The new airBaltic Corporate Customer programme is open to frequent-flying companies who are ready to sign a corporate agreement with the airline, and it opens convenient and flexible fare levels to destinations across the airBaltic network.
 

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Baku: city of fire
Baku has been an international trading hub for two thousand years. Now, as surging oil prices bring new prosperity, it is blossoming once again.
 

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