Tirana Worldwide Airport records 23 per cent growth for initial six months of 2011
• Airport now serving far more passengers than in the past before
• Cargo figures boost by 17 for each cent and ATMs by eleven per cent
Tirana International Airport (TIA) had an superb performance for the initial 6 months of 2011. Passenger quantities elevated by 23 per cent, air traffic actions (ATMs) by 10.6 for each cent, and cargo by 17.7 per cent, in comparison using the very same time period final calendar year. In between January as well as the end of June, TIA served 793,984 passengers, an excellent figure that highlights the substantial standards of support offered from the Airport. TIA also recorded 10,352 ATMs and dealt with 1,084 a lot of cargo.
“This 12 months has include genuinely important developments for your Airport, that is probably the most critical gates to Tirana and for the country like a entire. Visa liberalization has brought obvious adjust to our company: there is certainly substantial growth in domestic need, which has brought with it better and extended services supplied by the airlines,” stated Mr Rolf Castro-Vasquez, Chief Operation Officer of TIA.
The airlines carrying most passengers to and from Tirana are Belleair (46.2%), Alitalia (9.6%), Albanian Airways (9.1%), Austrian Airways (six.1%) and Turkish Airways (4.2%). At present, fourteen airlines fly in to and out of TIA, connecting straight the Albanian funds town with 35 destinations, including Brussels, Barcelona and Paris, inaugurated this year for that summer season season.
The Airport has grow to be more and more appealing to airlines whose choice to strategy TIA is based on its exceptional passenger growth recorded more than the final couple of many years. In June, TIA welcomed Jetair, a well-known low-cost airline, which operates between TIA and Brussels using a twice weekly services.
We’re conscious from the difficult scenario with our passengers which have booked their flights with us and also have trusted us.
All passengers will likely be paid out back but we have thousands of passengers to refund and it’s going to just take time due to the real circumstance of Albanian Airlines mainly following the revocation of its AOC (Air Operation Certificate).
For the second a group of individuals in Albanian Airways is operating really hard to end the process and spend again all passengers who bought tickets but didn’t fly with us.
We give for you a phone number and handle for that passengers to get in touch with and follow the refund approach application as below:
ALL ALBANIAN Airways FLIGHTS ARE CANCELLED Until Additional COMMUNICATIONS.
