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Estonian Air entrusts Austrian market to General Sales Agent AVIAREPS

Sales focus on promotion of new online services

Routing – launched in March 2012

29 March 2012

AVIAREPS and Estonian Air have announced a close partnership in Austria. The renowned sales expert will stimulate the promotion of Estonian Air’s new flight offer from Vienna to Tallinn whilst being the local point of contact for the Austrian trade and end-consumers alike. AVIAREPS and the Estonian carrier already successfully cooperate in the markets of Germany, Russia, Scandinavia and Ukraine. The team in Vienna, headed by General Manager Sonja Buocz-Lamatsch, will resume operations with immediate effect.

Last Monday, on March 26th, Estonian Air launched six weekly connections from the Austrian capital Vienna to its homebase in Tallinn. Attractive departure times at 09:35 hrs for Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays and 19:50 hrs for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays ensure convenient services for both business and leisure travelers. The carrier is the only operating direct flights between both capitals.

As of May 5th, a seventh connection will be added on Saturdays, bringing forth daily services between Austria and the Baltic State.

In addition to the sales representation, AVIAREPS will also become the fiscal representative of Estonian Air for the Austrian Air Travel Tax with its experienced team.

For more information about Estonian Air, please contact:

AVIAREPS Austria AVIAREPS Airline Management Service GmbH Argentienierstraße 2/4 A-1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA

Phone: +43 (0)1 – 585 36 32 65 Fax: +43 (0)1 – 585 36 30 88 Email: [email protected]

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About Estonian Air Estonian Air offers business travellers and tourists direct flights from Tallinn to European cities. The national airline of focuses on improving flight connections between Estonia and the rest of the world in order to become more competitive as a regional airline with an extensive flight network.

This year Estonia Air will launch new routes and add extra flights to the most important European cities as well as less known regional centres in the Nordic countries. Estonian Air currently offers direct flights to 24 destinations in , Scandinavia and CIS countries. The airline has announced the new destinations it will fly to from this spring, incl. Vienna, Riga, Hannover, Venice, , Jyväskylä, Joensuu, Kajaani.

Estonian Air is also the national partner of the 2012 World Championships of the International Ice Hockey Federation and its official airline in Helsinki, Finland.

About AVIAREPS Founded in Germany in 1994 with an extensive office network in over 35 countries, the AVIAREPS Group is the world’s leading airline and tourism management company with over 85 and more than 90 tourism clients in its portfolio. In addition to its core businesses, passenger GSA services and tourism marketing, clients can also avail themselves of services by the company’s successful public relations, advertising, IT solutions, financial services, airport marketing, and trade & investment promotion divisions. For further information, please visit www.aviareps.com or follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/Aviareps_Group.

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