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Feb 02, 2018 (newstodate): Latvia's airBaltic has opted out of any membership of airline alliances, building instead on a growing network of code-share agreements.
As one latest example is the code-share agreement with Air Malta, announced only on February 1, 2018, as the carrier's 21st code-share agreement.
-I see no benefits from airBaltic joining any of the airline alliances, Martin Gauss, airBaltic CEO, told newstodate in 2013.
-Instead, airBaltic is pinning its cooperation with other airlines on code-share agreements. We have a large and ever-growing number of code-share partners that add their prefixes to our flights, irrespective of their own alliance affiliations. And what is even more important: we operate the routes!
-We are actually approached by these airline alliances, which we take as a recognition of our reputation built up over several years with quality in performance. And this is very satisfactory for us, said Mr Gauss.
With this latest code-share agreement between airBaltic and Air Malta,
Air Malta will place its flight code KM on direct flights MaltaRiga operated by airBaltic as well as connecting flights between Malta and the Baltics, while airBaltic will put its code BT on flights from Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn to Malta as well as to Catania via common gateways such as Vienna, Munich, Brussels, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Geneva, Zurich and others.
As one latest example is the code-share agreement with Air Malta, announced only on February 1, 2018, as the carrier's 21st code-share agreement.
-I see no benefits from airBaltic joining any of the airline alliances, Martin Gauss, airBaltic CEO, told newstodate in 2013.
-Instead, airBaltic is pinning its cooperation with other airlines on code-share agreements. We have a large and ever-growing number of code-share partners that add their prefixes to our flights, irrespective of their own alliance affiliations. And what is even more important: we operate the routes!
-We are actually approached by these airline alliances, which we take as a recognition of our reputation built up over several years with quality in performance. And this is very satisfactory for us, said Mr Gauss.
With this latest code-share agreement between airBaltic and Air Malta,
Air Malta will place its flight code KM on direct flights MaltaRiga operated by airBaltic as well as connecting flights between Malta and the Baltics, while airBaltic will put its code BT on flights from Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn to Malta as well as to Catania via common gateways such as Vienna, Munich, Brussels, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Geneva, Zurich and others.