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Dec 16, 2011 (newstodate): Estonian Air aims as expanding the air travel options for Estonia by building up Tallinn Airport as a hub.
-We are not talking about setting up a large hub-and-spokes system like e.g. large European airports. By itself, Estonia is a small market with a limited traveling population that, however, still needs ample air travel services, says Ilona Eskelinen, Estonian Air communications manager.
-The idea is, therefore, to seek ways to expand this limited home market by including also neighboring markets. We have thus announced the opening of several new routes in 2012 to small airports and destinations in Finland in an effort to grow our home market to include these passenger volumes as well.
-In this way we seek to build up volumes to sustain more flights to more destinations in Scandinavia and Europe above the level defined by the Estonian market alone. This is the concept behind Tallinn Airport as a hub, says Ms Eskelinen.
-We are not talking about setting up a large hub-and-spokes system like e.g. large European airports. By itself, Estonia is a small market with a limited traveling population that, however, still needs ample air travel services, says Ilona Eskelinen, Estonian Air communications manager.
-The idea is, therefore, to seek ways to expand this limited home market by including also neighboring markets. We have thus announced the opening of several new routes in 2012 to small airports and destinations in Finland in an effort to grow our home market to include these passenger volumes as well.
-In this way we seek to build up volumes to sustain more flights to more destinations in Scandinavia and Europe above the level defined by the Estonian market alone. This is the concept behind Tallinn Airport as a hub, says Ms Eskelinen.