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Mar 04, 2015 (newstodate): The Latvian carrier airBaltic has decided to boost its ACMI and full-charter business as a means to increasing the utilization of its aircraft and crews.
Starting from December 1, 2014, airBaltic has placed responsibility for sale and marketing of ACMI and full-charter services outside of its home market, Latvia, with the British provider Zela Aviation.
In effect, the two parties have been working together for some 18 months already as Zela Aviatoin successfully negotiated the contracts with the German tour operator ArGe group as well as various Danish tour operators for tourist charter flights.
The charter activities will support the optimization of the airline's aircraft capacity in a period with turbulence in nearby markets including Russia and Ukraine, forcing airBaltic to re-think its strategy that has until now been focused on building extensive transit traffic via its Latvian hub at Riga Airport, to adding instead increasing importance to point-to-point services as well as other activities including ACMI and charter flights.
Starting from December 1, 2014, airBaltic has placed responsibility for sale and marketing of ACMI and full-charter services outside of its home market, Latvia, with the British provider Zela Aviation.
In effect, the two parties have been working together for some 18 months already as Zela Aviatoin successfully negotiated the contracts with the German tour operator ArGe group as well as various Danish tour operators for tourist charter flights.
The charter activities will support the optimization of the airline's aircraft capacity in a period with turbulence in nearby markets including Russia and Ukraine, forcing airBaltic to re-think its strategy that has until now been focused on building extensive transit traffic via its Latvian hub at Riga Airport, to adding instead increasing importance to point-to-point services as well as other activities including ACMI and charter flights.