Tez Tour to Partner airBaltic for Summer Travel

Janis Vanags/Konstantin Palgov | 2011.04.14

Latvian national airline airBaltic has renewed its partnership agreement with Tez Tour to offer charter flights for the tour operator’s customers travelling to summer destinations in Turkey and Greece.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “Tez Tour and airBaltic are long-term partners. We are delighted to work with the professional team at Tez Tour.”

Konstantin Palgov, Director of Tez Tour in Baltics: “We are proud to be partners with one of the best airlines in Europe. airBaltic is a very important to our customers.

In February and March, Tez Tour sold nearly two times more trips than last year, and we are very optimistic about the summer season. The fact that virtually all of the first flights to Antalya are already sold out signals positive developments in the travel sector.”

During the summer, airBaltic will provide flights to Tez Tour customers who are flying to Antalya, Turkey, and Heraklion, Greece. The summer season will begin this week on April 16 with the first flight to Antalya. Full flight schedule is available on the Tez Tour webpage www.teztour.lv.

It is planned that during the summer season (from April to October) more than 105 charter flights will be operated to Antalya and Heraklion carrying more than 20 000 holidaymakers, up by 30% compared to last year.

airBaltic serves 80 destinations from its home base at Riga, Latvia. From every one of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.

Tez Tour offers charter flight to travellers all year round. Tez Tour customers are welcome to visit Turkey, Greece, Spain, Egypt, UAE, Thailand, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Maldives, as well as skiing resorts in Austria and Andorra.

airBalticin brief:  

AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. The primary shareholders are the Latvian state, with 52.6% of stock, and SIA Baltijas aviācijas sistēmas, with 47.2% of stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 34 aircraft – six Boeing 737-500, eight Boeing 737-300, two Boeing 757-200, ten Fokker 50 airplanes and eight Bombardier Q400Next Gen. airBaltic offers nonstop flights from three Baltic capital cities – Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. airBaltic received the title of Airline of the Year 2009/2010 (Gold Award) from the European Regions Airline Association. airBaltic is the winner of Air Transport World Phoenix Award 2010 – a global recognition of excellence in restructuring business. In summer 2010, airBaltic was chosen for anna.aero ANNIES Award as Europe's largest flag carrier by new routes. airBaltic won a special Pacesetter Award 2010 from the Jury of the Budgies World Low Cost Airline Awards, recognising achievements of airBaltic as a hybrid airline.

Tez Tour in brief:

TEZ TOUR group brings together 50 offices in 18 countries. 22 of these offices make the reception of tourists, but 28 are engaged in outbound tourism (they have offices in the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and CIS countries). The main directions of TEZ TOUR are: Turkey (since 1994), Egypt (since 1997), Spain (from 2003), Greece (from 2008), Thailand (from 1997), Cuba and Dominican Republic (from 2007), Maldives and Sri Lanka (from 2007), Austria (from 2009), UAE (from 2010).

The company has four hotels of 5 -star- hotel chains „ AMARA World" in Antalya coast: Amara Beach Resort Side (from 2004), "Amara Wing Resort Kemer (from 2004)," Amara Club Marine "Kemer (from 2005) and "Amara Dolce Vita Kemer (from 2007).