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Feb 25, 2010 (newstodate): Having announced already 20 new routes in 2010 from Latvia and Lithuania, the Latvian carrier is still looking ahead for new markets to serve.
Among the potential new destinations, airBaltic is considering opening up services from Riga to Cairo, Egypt, and Baghdad, Iraq, while no launch dates have yet been decided.
-There are still many under-served markets that make sense for airBaltic as a comparatively small carrier, says Bertolt Flick, airBaltic president & CEO.
-We do not want any head-on competition or conflict with large airlines, but whenever we identify an oppoprtujnity we will consider it and go for it if feasible.
-Basically, the discussion of which carriers are actually our competitors is rather diffuse. We provide flights to a number of destinations in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe and in the CIS. If we consider a passenger traveling from, say, a destination in the Middle East to a destination in, say, Kazakhstan, transferring via Riga in Latvia - which airlines are we then competing against? says Mr Flick.
Among the potential new destinations, airBaltic is considering opening up services from Riga to Cairo, Egypt, and Baghdad, Iraq, while no launch dates have yet been decided.
-There are still many under-served markets that make sense for airBaltic as a comparatively small carrier, says Bertolt Flick, airBaltic president & CEO.
-We do not want any head-on competition or conflict with large airlines, but whenever we identify an oppoprtujnity we will consider it and go for it if feasible.
-Basically, the discussion of which carriers are actually our competitors is rather diffuse. We provide flights to a number of destinations in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe and in the CIS. If we consider a passenger traveling from, say, a destination in the Middle East to a destination in, say, Kazakhstan, transferring via Riga in Latvia - which airlines are we then competing against? says Mr Flick.