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May 13, 2016 (newstodate): Only in April this year, ERA, European Regional Airline Association, landed its 52nd member airline: Estonia's Nordica.
Launched in September 2015 in the aftermath of the demise of Estonian Air, Nordica started operating scheduled flights from November 2015 on eight routes from Tallinn to Amsterdam, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo, Kiev, Trondheim and Vilnius.
During this summer schedule, the carrier has grown its network to 15 destinations and five seasonal routes, and the carrier now accounts for about half of the destinations out of Tallinn Airport.
-Why did we set up Nordica? Basically for one good reason, said Kristel Saulepp, Nordica Head of Network Planing, speaking today at the ACI Regional Airports' Conference at Vilnius, Lithuania.
-The reason was that it proved difficult to attract foreign airlines to Estonia that has the smallest catchment area among the EU states. To secure connectivity, we had to go it ourselves.
-We will continue to expand our network to include routes in demand within a 2,000 km radius comfortably covered by our fleet of currently four CRJ900 and two CRJ700 aircraft in addition to capacity provided by our four wet-lease partners, first of all Adria Airways.
-We are also keen to grow our portfolio of code-share agreements now comprising Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines and Turkish Airlines on specific routes, ACMI is another business for us, and we are also engaged in PSO operations, says Ms Saulepp.
Launched in September 2015 in the aftermath of the demise of Estonian Air, Nordica started operating scheduled flights from November 2015 on eight routes from Tallinn to Amsterdam, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo, Kiev, Trondheim and Vilnius.
During this summer schedule, the carrier has grown its network to 15 destinations and five seasonal routes, and the carrier now accounts for about half of the destinations out of Tallinn Airport.
-Why did we set up Nordica? Basically for one good reason, said Kristel Saulepp, Nordica Head of Network Planing, speaking today at the ACI Regional Airports' Conference at Vilnius, Lithuania.
-The reason was that it proved difficult to attract foreign airlines to Estonia that has the smallest catchment area among the EU states. To secure connectivity, we had to go it ourselves.
-We will continue to expand our network to include routes in demand within a 2,000 km radius comfortably covered by our fleet of currently four CRJ900 and two CRJ700 aircraft in addition to capacity provided by our four wet-lease partners, first of all Adria Airways.
-We are also keen to grow our portfolio of code-share agreements now comprising Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines and Turkish Airlines on specific routes, ACMI is another business for us, and we are also engaged in PSO operations, says Ms Saulepp.