„Aktuell“ – News from the industry

Latvian airline airBaltic carried overall 295,809 passengers in May 2010 (from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn), representing 29% increase comparing with the same month in 2009, when airBaltic transported 229,475 passengers.

The Government has made special arrangements, for the Gibraltar Bus Company to provide a service that will convey passengers to the beaches to include Catalan Bay Beach, Eastern Beach and Western Beach from Market Place, as an extension to their route.

The Latvian national airline airBaltic is becoming the first airline in the world to offer roses to its passengers while planes are up in the sky.

Today the Latvian national airline airBaltic has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the TAV Airports Holding A.S. as a Joint Venture partner on a 50:50 shareholding basis for the development, construction and operation of a new passenger terminal at Riga International Airport.

The order purpose is to fulfill the fleet plan already annnouced

Live audio webcast of the presentation available at continental.com

The second international “North Hub Riga” conference organised by the Latvian national airline airBaltic will be held at the Radisson Blu Latvia Hotel on June 9.

Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), and its Copa Airlines and Aero Republica operating subsidiaries, today released preliminary passenger traffic statistics for May 2010

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 6.7 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in May 2010, a 3.5 percent increase from the RPMs flown in May 2009.

On June 4, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will start operating flights to Visby, the capital of Gotland (Sweden), offering convenient connections via North Hub Riga to /from Europe, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.