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Oct 09, 2009 (newstodate): Latvian airline airBaltic was announced Airline of the Year 2009/2010 Gold Award winner on October 8 by European Regions Airline Association, ERA.
The ERA panel of experts named two reasons for choosing airBaltic as the Airline of the Year: airBaltic has made an immensely worthy attempt at developing a new business model in an effort to transform itself from a point to point low cost operator into a network carrier, and has managed to build Riga into an important and highly efficient international hub.
Secondly, airBaltic has enjoyed significant traffic growth despite the severe economic situation in the Baltic states and the limits of their home market.
The ERA panel of experts named two reasons for choosing airBaltic as the Airline of the Year: airBaltic has made an immensely worthy attempt at developing a new business model in an effort to transform itself from a point to point low cost operator into a network carrier, and has managed to build Riga into an important and highly efficient international hub.
Secondly, airBaltic has enjoyed significant traffic growth despite the severe economic situation in the Baltic states and the limits of their home market.