Tallinn Airport has been nominated as one of the top five airports in the world with fewer than five million passengers, and the winner will be announced at Routes World, the largest annual meeting of route developers from airports and airlines, scheduled to take place on Oct. 7 in Bahrain.
At the Routes World event, representatives from airline route development departments assess airports’ route development and marketing efforts, including route development results, relationships with airlines, marketing collaboration, and partnerships with tourism organizations.
Eero Pärgmäe, a member of the management board of Tallinn Airport, said that the whole team is delighted to have been nominated.
“To be ranked in the top five of the world’s best smaller airports is an outstanding achievement,” he said.
“We have a really strong and enthusiastic team here. We put our all into everything we do, so it’s great to see that’s been noticed by the airlines. A total of 16 of them operate regular flights out of Tallinn, and we have to keep an eye on how all of them are doing while trying to entice new carriers to start flying here as well. We work very closely with Visit Estonia, and this nomination is recognition of the work they put in as well. We have a great partnership,” he said.
Nominated alongside Tallinn for this year’s award were the airports on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and in the city of Halifax in Canada, Newcastle in the United Kingdom, and Olbia in Italy.
The biggest carrier operating out of Tallinn Airport is Air Baltic, which offered 21 direct-flight destinations and transported 29 percent of passengers in August. The airline served more than 100,000 travellers during the month, making it the first carrier to do so in the airport’s history. The second-biggest airline in August was Ryanair, which operated direct flights to 11 destinations and earned a market share of 19 percent.
In total, almost 350,000 people used Estonia’s biggest airport to arrive in and depart from the country in August, representing a 23 percent rise year on year. This increase in passenger numbers was supported by 20 percent more tickets going on sale than in the same period last year.
A total of 9,840 passengers passed through regional airports in Estonia in August — 4,007 in Kuressaare, 3,860 in Tartu, including 3,833 on regular flights between Tartu and Helsinki, 1,917 in Kärdla and 28 in Pärnu. The airstrip on Ruhnu also served 28 travellers.
Routes World is the year’s biggest meeting of airports and airlines, at which developers discuss existing routes and future plans and where airports bid to secure new routes for their passengers. The Routes Awards were established in order to recognise outstanding cooperation between developers and showcase their biggest achievements.
Source: BNS
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