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Airline: Small Planet Airlines [xx-xxx]
Type: Boeing 737-500
Comment: Die flyLAL Charters Gruppe will sich in Kürze in Small Planet Airlines umbenennen. / Current flyLAL Charters group is to be renamed shortly to Small Planet Airlines.
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Written by: Maria Victoria Becerra on July 23, 2010.
Small Planet Airlines is the new FlyLal Charter
Mr. Vytautas Kaikaris, CEO of the new Small Planet Airlines, said that passenger’s service will be one of the priorities of the company.
Among the main reasons for the rebranding is that the company is seeking for international growth and, according to Mr Kaikaris, this new business strategy could help the company to reach about 2 million passengers carried by 2012 – projecting it then in the top ten Europe´s charter airlines.
For achieving these business goals, the actual fleet formed by Boeing 737 classic aircraft will be renovated with new generation aircrafts from the same American company;
the new aircraft are more modern and capable of flying longer distances and this should help the expansion and growth of the company.
Nowadays, the airline operates a total of seven Boeing aircraft used both for flights and offering charter services inside the EU to private companies or tour operators.
Already during 2009, the airline carried over 0.5 million passengers.
Avia Solution Group, a Lithuanian aviation business company is the owner of Small Planet Airlines.
FlyLal, a retrospective:
FlyLal was the National airline of Lithuania until 17th Januray 2009 when, due to financial difficulties, the airline suspended its operations.
Its main base was in Vilnius and it had regular destinations within Lithuania and also around Europe.
Flylal bankruptcy, other than meaning the closure of the company, had also consequences for the airline traffic of the Lithuanian capital city, as it meant a reduction in the number of routes from Vilnius: from 28 to 14 destinations
The bad times started for FlyLal in 2008, due to a price war with Air Baltic happening right when the company was affected by the global economic crisis.
During that year the company admitted having debts of about 26,1 million Euros. In an attempt to save the company, FlyLal offered 51% of its shares to the Lithuanian government for a symbolic sum of 1 million Litas in exchange for the state guarantee of its debt but the government declined the offer.
FlyLal Charter was a twinned company of FlyLal established in 2008 to offer separate charter services from its sister airline.
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