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Wizz Air Opens 25th Base In Kutaisi, Georgia

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today celebrates the major milestone of opening its 25th base in Kutaisi, Georgia. The airline has based one of its new Airbus A320 aircraft at Kutaisi Airport, starting seven additional new low-fare routes to such attractive destinations as Berlin, Dortmund and Munich Memmingen in Germany, Larnaca in Cyprus, Milan in Italy, Sof...

Lufthansa Technik: Ten-year growing partnership with Ural Airlines

Ural Airlines and Lufthansa Technik look back on a decade of  successful partnership. The anniversary of the long-term collaboration was celebrated with an official event at the Russian carrier’s home base in Ekaterinburg. Lufthansa Technik has been supporting Ural Airlines with a reliable component supply and other customized technical services since the carrier added...

Georgian Il-76TD cargo plane forgotten in Turkish airport for 4 years

  A cargo plane registered in Georgia, which brought aid materials to Turkey's southeastern Van province after the earthquake in 2011, has been kept waiting at the airport to be repaired since then. The Georgian Ilyushin Il-76TD model cargo plane from SKY Georgia Airlines landed at the Erzurum airport on October 23, 2011. The airport in the eastern province of Erzurum was chosen...

TNT launches road connection to Georgia

TNT is launching a scheduled road feeder connection to Georgia to reduce the European road transit times to Moscow. The Dutch express operator says it becomes the first express delivery service provider to offer an economy service to/from Georgia, in the Caucasus, as an alternative to air express services. The line haul will connect Georgia’s capital Tbilisi with TNT’s European r...