Transavia Airlines to launch Amsterdam-Tbilisi flights from April
Transavia will become the latest company following Austrian Airlines to start flights from the Tbilisi venue, with the airports body adding the airline had been operating since 1966. Photo: TAV Georgia
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The Dutch budget airline Transavia will launch direct regular flights linking Amsterdam and Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi from April, the United Airports of Georgia announced on Monday.
The airline will carry passengers between the two locations twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
In his comments, Irakli Karkashadze, the Director of the airports body, said “active negotiations” had started with the airline last year and “successfully completed”.
We are glad to start the summer navigation season with another welcome news that another European airline is entering the Georgian airline market. We are already seeing the first results of the European Union candidate status [being granted to Georgia]”, he added.
Transavia will become the latest company following Austrian Airlines to start flights from the Tbilisi venue, with the airports body adding the airline had been operating since 1966.
Austrian Airlines, the flagship carrier of the country, will launch direct flights linking Vienna and Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi from May, the Austrian Embassy to Georgia said on Friday.
Western Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport served a record-high passenger flow last year, hosting 1,671,016 passengers in a 103 percent increase compared to 2022.
The Turkish budget airline Pegasus has started operating direct flights between western Georgia’s Kutaisi Airport to İstanbul, the United Airports of Georgia said on Tuesday.
Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air on Saturday launched direct flights between Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi and Danish capital Copenhagen, the United Airports of Georgia announced.
Irakli Karkashadze, the Director of the United Airports of Georgia, on Thursday congratulated employees of the Georgian airline industry on the “historic” 100th anniversary of establishment, coincided with International Civil Aviation Day celebrations.
Self-check-in kiosks have been installed at Tbilisi International Airport in the Georgian capital city to allow passengers to choose their seats, check in and print their boarding passes hours before departure, TAV Georgia, the company managing two of the largest airports in the country, said on Monday.
TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports in the country, on Monday announced "large-scale" infrastructural works planned for the former facility in the Georgian capital.