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Feb 10, 2014 (newstodate): Estonian Air feels comparatively safe from direct competition its home market.
-Estonia is a small market that would not enable larger airlines or low-cost carriers to profitably dedicate aircraft to be based at Tallinn Airport including having crews on overnight stops, says Jan Palmer, Estonian Air CEO.
-We are serving our home market with outbound morning flights to the country's most important business destinations, allowing for return flights after a full day's work. And we are indeed seeing the bulk of our passengers in the business segment.
-FlyBe does operate into Estonia, but not on an everyday basis and they are soon to cancel their operations between Tallinn and Stockholm Bromma, leaving us alone in serving the Swedish capital at Stockholm Arlanda that also provides onward transit options.
-Apart from operating point-to-point traffic, we cooperate with SAS on flights out of the three Scandinavian main airports, with Brussels Airlines at Brussels, and with KLM at Amsterdam. And we cooperate with Aeroflot on the route to Moscow while at the same time also competing with them.
-On the other hand, we do face indirect competition in the market, notably with Finnair in nearby Helsinki, with Lufthansa that flies between Tallinn and Frankfurt, and with airBaltic in neighboring Latvia. So there is no leaning back, says Mr Palmer.
Tailoring its route network under its ongoing restructuring program, Estonian Air currently operates regular routes from Tallinn to Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Vilnius and Trondheim.
-Estonia is a small market that would not enable larger airlines or low-cost carriers to profitably dedicate aircraft to be based at Tallinn Airport including having crews on overnight stops, says Jan Palmer, Estonian Air CEO.
-We are serving our home market with outbound morning flights to the country's most important business destinations, allowing for return flights after a full day's work. And we are indeed seeing the bulk of our passengers in the business segment.
-FlyBe does operate into Estonia, but not on an everyday basis and they are soon to cancel their operations between Tallinn and Stockholm Bromma, leaving us alone in serving the Swedish capital at Stockholm Arlanda that also provides onward transit options.
-Apart from operating point-to-point traffic, we cooperate with SAS on flights out of the three Scandinavian main airports, with Brussels Airlines at Brussels, and with KLM at Amsterdam. And we cooperate with Aeroflot on the route to Moscow while at the same time also competing with them.
-On the other hand, we do face indirect competition in the market, notably with Finnair in nearby Helsinki, with Lufthansa that flies between Tallinn and Frankfurt, and with airBaltic in neighboring Latvia. So there is no leaning back, says Mr Palmer.
Tailoring its route network under its ongoing restructuring program, Estonian Air currently operates regular routes from Tallinn to Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Vilnius and Trondheim.