airBaltic to Have the World’s First Tweet-up at Route Inauguration

01.04.2010 06:04 | Latvia

Author: Janis Vanags
Source: 0A/S Air Baltic Corporation

On March 31, airBaltic has invited the airline’s most active social media fans to report live on Twitter from the inauguration ceremonies of the new Tallinn-Tampere route. This will be the world’s first tweet-up at a route inauguration ceremony.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “airBaltic is the Europe’s fastest growing airline in social media. Tens of thousands of airBaltic fans on Facebook and Twitter help us become a better airline for our customer. Naturally, we want to share unique experiences with our friends, so we invited five most active social media fans for the historic first tweet-up at route inauguration.”

Five fans of airBaltic from Estonia and Latvia will take part in the historic first tweet-up and report their experience live from the inauguration ceremony at Tallinn airport, then board the plane to continue the tweet-up at Tampere airport.

airBaltic serves 80 destinations from its home base at Riga, Latvia. From every one of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.

airBaltic photos: http://www.airbaltic.com/public/downloads.html

airBaltic in brief:

AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. The primary shareholders are the Latvian state, with 52.6% of stock, and SIA Baltijas aviācijas sistēmas, with 47.2% of stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 31 aircraft – ten Boeing 737-500, eight Boeing 737-300, two Boeing 757-200, and eleven Fokker 50 airplanes. airBaltic offers nonstop flights from three Baltic capital cities – Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. airBaltic received the title of Airline of the Year 2009/2010 (Gold Award) from the European Regions Airline Association. airBaltic is the winner of Air Transport World Phoenix Award 2010 – a global recognition of excellence in restructuring business.