Austrian Airlines and Georgian Airways signed Codeshare agreement

Agreement on Tbilisi – Vienna route

Austrian Airlines and Georgian Airways are creating clear benefits for passengers: With the cooperation on the route Tbilisi- Vienna, the two airlines provide an attractive offer for travellers from East to West and from West to East. Flights to and from Tbilisi are now connect perfectly with the Austrian Airlines hub of Vienna. This helps passengers to save valuable time on their journey and gives them access to an enlarged network. Tickets can be bought at Georgian Airlines http://www.airzena.com or at Austrian Airlines under www.austrian.com.

The flights will be operated by Georgian Airways with a Boeing B737. As a result of the cooperation, Austrian Airlines passengers coming from all over Europe and Japan will find good transfer connections to Tbilisi. Georgian Airways passengers from Tbilisi travelling in the opposite direction will also be provided with a range of good connections across Europe with Austrian Airlines.

In Vienna, Austrian Airlines operate Europe’s biggest destination network served out of a single hub in Vienna with over 100 destinations.

Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is Austria’s largest carrier and offers a global route network of round 130 destinations. In Central and Eastern Europe, the route network is particularly dense: With 44 destinations Austrian Airlines is the market leader throughout the region. Thanks to its favourable geographical location at the heart of Europe, the company’s hub at Vienna International Airport is the ideal gateway between East and West. Austrian Airlines is part of the Lufthansa Group, Europe’s largest airline group, and a member of the Star Alliance, the first global alliance of international airlines.

Georgian Airways
The air company “Airzena” was founded in September 1993. In 1999 Airzena became the flag carrier of Georgia. On October 1, 2004 the air company changed its name into “Georgian Airways”.
Air company’s priorities: permanent and strict protection of flight safety standards; continual renewal of service; keeping of own place in the international market of the strict competition surrounding.
Air Company’s operation network covers different destinations in CIS and Europe having regular flights from TBS to the following destinations: DME, CDG, ATH, FRA, AMS, VIE, IEV, MSQ, DXB, TLV, THR, BUS, from Batumi to Kiev, as well as charter flights for passengers, cargo and mail transportation. At present the air company operates Boeing 737-500/400/300 type aircraft, two CRJ-100 and we intend to add two Embraer in Summer 2011. We care about our passengers comfort!

Owner, Editor, Reproducer: Austrian Airlines AG, Corporate Communications public.relations@austrian.com.
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Georgian Airways:
Corporate Communications GEORGIAN AIRWAYS: Valerian Chedia / Revaz Kobaladze / Nino Giorgobiani; Tel: +995 32 999730; 999180, fares@georgian-airways.com; revaz@georgian-airways.com; nino_giorgobiani@georgian-airways.com;

Please find further information www.georgian-airways.com