Tirana Worldwide Airport documents 23 per cent growth for 1st 6 months of 2011
• Airport now serving a lot more passengers than ever before ahead of
• Cargo figures improve by 17 per cent and ATMs by eleven for each cent
Tirana Worldwide Airport (TIA) had an exceptional efficiency for the first 6 months of 2011. Passenger quantities improved by 23 per cent, air traffic actions (ATMs) by ten.6 per cent, and cargo by 17.7 per cent, compared with the exact same period last calendar year. Among January and also the end of June, TIA served 793,984 passengers, an excellent figure that highlights the substantial requirements of support supplied by the Airport. TIA also recorded 10,352 ATMs and handled 1,084 a lot of cargo.
“This calendar year has include actually critical developments for that Airport, which is one of the most important gates to Tirana and for the nation like a entire. Visa liberalization has brought noticeable change to our business: there is significant growth in domestic demand, that has brought with it far better and prolonged services provided from the airlines,” stated Mr Rolf Castro-Vasquez, Chief Operation Officer of TIA.
The airlines transporting most passengers to and from Tirana are Belleair (46.2%), Alitalia (nine.6%), Albanian Airlines (nine.1%), Austrian Airlines (6.1%) and Turkish Airlines (4.2%). At present, fourteen airlines fly in to and out of TIA, connecting straight the Albanian richesse metropolis with 35 destinations, including Brussels, Barcelona and Paris, inaugurated this yr for your summer season season.
The Airport has become a growing number of appealing to airlines whose choice to strategy TIA is according to its outstanding passenger growth recorded over the last couple of years. In June, TIA welcomed Jetair, a well known low-cost airline, which operates between TIA and Brussels with a two times weekly service.
We are aware of the tough situation with our passengers that have booked their flights with us and have trustworthy us.
All passengers will likely be compensated back but we’ve thousands of passengers to refund and it will consider time due to the actual situation of Albanian Airlines mainly right after the revocation of its AOC (Air Operation Certificate).
For that second a bunch of individuals in Albanian Airlines is operating extremely difficult to finish the procedure and pay back again all passengers who purchased tickets but didn’t fly with us.
We supply to you personally a phone amount and address for your passengers to get in touch with and adhere to the refund approach app as below:
ALL ALBANIAN Airlines FLIGHTS ARE CANCELLED Till Additional COMMUNICATIONS.
