Industry Update AIRBALTIC
D&F/COLORADO FOODS / HALEYBROOKE INTERNATIONAL ALPHA FLIGHT
airBaltic upgrades in Business
Latvia’s national airline, airBaltic, has improved its Business concept and is making Business fares more attractive to passengers who book early. Recent Business improvements have included the availability of Nespresso coffee onboard jet aircraft, and a seasonal menu based on products from local farmers by Mārtiņš Rītiņš, the most renowned chef in the Baltics. The airline now also reserves a vacant adjacent seat for Business passengers on its turboprop aircraft. Better availability of attractive fares for passengers who book their travel early will bring wider access to an all-inclusive service that includes priority check-in, extra luggage allowance, fast-track, Business lounge access, comfortable seating, inflight entertainment, fine dining and a variety of drinks. airBaltic serves 80 destinations from its
home base at Riga. 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.
www.airbaltic.com
Canned wine deal
D&F Marketing and Colorado Foods have entered into a new partnership to market Friends Just Wine, genuine French wine in a can, to the airline industry. Friends Just Wine presents light and refreshing
French wines in packaging that is said to offer longer shelf life and maintain the optimum flavour of the wine over glass bottles or plastic, and is environmentally friendly. The lightweight, specially lined aluminium containers are available in 250 ml and 187 ml sizes. One of the first tasks for the new partners is
to offer an additional option to the airlines to use a selected wine from a favourite vineyard that can be packaged in the aluminum containers exclusively for that airline.
www.dfminc.biz
ANA appoints Alpha
Alpha Flight has been awarded a new five- year contract with All Nippon Airways (ANA) at London/Heathrow providing Japanese and Western food. ANA operates a daily flight to Tokyo with a three- class service. Alpha has been serving ANA since 1989, first at London Gatwick for a year and then continuing the relationship when ANA moved to Heathrow. Since 2000 Alpha has won six caterer awards from ANA. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the airline’s Heathrow station manager, said: “Over the years we have seen Alpha rise to the challenges we have set, most recently with the introduction of our new Inspirations of Japan service, and the dedication and motivation shown by all is commendable and sincerely appreciated. We look forward to the next five years of our business relationship.”
www.ana-europe.com
Friends Just Wine
New Sapin wine rep Haleybrooke International has signed an agreement with Barry Global Innovation, exclusive global travel retail agent for Paul Sapin wines, to represent the latter’s travel retail MLP (multi-layer PET) range in North, Central and South America as well as in the Caribbean islands. Barry Global has already received listings in Europe and the Middle East with Aer Rianta, Aelia and Dufry.
www.barrygi.com
Better Business with Air Baltic
Elsa Ramos, ANA assistant manager inflight services Heathrow; Graham Fyfe, business director, alpha-airfayre; Tomoyuki Yamashita, ANA Heathrow station manager; Clare Barrett, ANA manager inflight services Heathrow; Paul German, business development director, alpha-airfayre
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