Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL/EETN)
New routes and frequency possibilities and why these routes would work
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Tallinn – European Capital of Culture in 2011 – continues to grow as an increasingly popular destination for business, family holidays, culture, shopping and weekend breaks. |
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Other major reasons to serve this airport
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Tallinn had seven new routes and three new carriers in 2010, while six more new services have already scheduled to begin during 2011. In April 2011, easyJet added its second route to Tallinn when the low-cost airline launched flights from Liverpool, and Ryanair now also serves Tallinn from across its network of European bases.
Tallinn Airport
- Fast developing market
- Eleven new routes and three new carriers in 2011
- Ten new routes already announced for 2012
- Airport caters both for low-cost and full-service traffic
- 42% of TLL traffic is business
- Excellent incoming tourism potential
- Tallinn is a good starting point for tourists travelling around the Baltic countries
- Good connections either by air, sea or road to Scandinavia, the other Baltic countries, and Russia (St.Petersburg)
Tallinn – The European Capital of Culture in 2011
- Attractive city-break and conference destination
- Charmingly medieval and amazingly modern
- Unique and extremely well-preserved UNESCO´s heritage list old town
- Architecture, culture, shopping, spas, beaches, fine dining and a good night out – all this within easy reach in Tallinn
- Tourism
- 1.6 million accommodated foreign visitors in 2010.
- 8 million passengers travel annually to/from Tallinn through port.
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Launching new services from Tallinn: easyJet and Lufthansa have both expanded their route networks to Tallinn in 2010 and 2011, now operating two routes each. Cakes were baked to market the new air services. LOT Polish Airlines is another network airline that has connected its Warsaw hub with Tallinn. To celebrate the new route, a pianist played music by Chopin for a whole week in the airport terminal.
Marketing and other support
- Attractive incentives for new and existing routes.
- Market information: statistics and market analysis on request.
- PR support: inaugural flights and activities for press, passengers and VIPs as well as different additional marketing activities, including the use of TLL website.
- For more details please contact TLL Marketing.
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Estonia – surprisingly centrally placed between the Baltic States, Scandinavian the Nordic nations and Russia. Around 11 million people live within 400km of Tallinn, and highly educated Estonian people are a great mobile asset.
Catchment Area
- Tallinn Airport is the largest airport in Estonia serving primarily the whole population of Estonia (1.4 million) within 180 minutes from the airport.
- Tallinn, together with the surrounding Harju county, has the largest number of inhabitants and is within less than 60 minutes from the airport.
- More than half of overall GDP of Estonia is created in Harju county
- Tallinn Airport Ltd operates five Estonian airports and two airfields (Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Kuressaare, Kärdla, Kihnu and Ruhnu).
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Economic impact reasons to fly to Estonia: EU membership...growing economy...the first Baltic State to adopt the Euro currency... an incredibly advanced IT sector – Estonian programmers wrote the Skype code – and Tallinn Airport has the world's first airport Skype station. 42% of passengers are travelling on business.
Freight opportunities
Estonia – highly competitive, fast, stabile, cost efficient and flexible
- Growing economy
- EU membership, growing economy, ease and low cost of doing business, first among the Baltic States to adopt EURO in January 2011, all make Estonia an attractive destination for investments and trade.
- Liberal trade and pricing policy
- Simple and proportional tax system
- 0% corporate income tax
- Estonia is the geographical midpoint of Northern Europe and the most efficient trade route from Asia to North West Russia and Northern Europe.
- Effective access to a consumer market of 300 million.
- Tallinn Airport has 4 cargo terminals operated by several freight forwarders, courier and cargo handling companies and the airport is ready to develop additional terminals for the operators
Geography
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Downtown Tallinn is only 4km from the airport, which was substantially modernised in 2008.
- TLL is located only 4km south of downtown Tallinn. The city is accessible both by public transport as well as taxis. Journey time to the city centre is approximately 15 minutes.
- Main cities of the neighbouring countries like Helsinki, Stockholm, Riga and St.Petersburg are within easy reach from TLL both by air as well as by sea and road (300km). This makes TLL an ideal starting point for trips and tours around the Baltic Sea.
Infrastructure & Operations
- One runway 3,070m X 45m
- Nor slot coordinated
- Operating hours: 24h
- Single terminal, opened in 1980, last renovated and extended in 2008. This modern and efficient passenger terminal is suitable for handling both low-cost as well as conventional full-service traffic.
Important infrastructure developments and/or other news
- TLL carried out major reconstruction projects by 2008 including airside and passenger terminal extensions. The newly-extended passenger terminal facilities include numerous shopping and dining facilities, business and VIP lounges, spacious check-in and seating areas, free of charge wifi and a unique Skype station from which free video calls can be made.
Vital statistics
- Passenger numbers 1.91 million in 2011 of which 90% travelled on scheduled flights. Largest destinations include Helsinki, Riga, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen.
- Nearly 200 000 passengers travelled on charter flights with key holiday destinations being Turkey and Egypt.
- Close to 2% of the traffic is domestic, mainly to the largest Estonian islands.
- 42% of TLL traffic is travelling for business purposes.
- Freight: 18,371 tons.
- Largest carriers: Estonian Air, Ryanair, Airbaltic, Finnair, Lufthansa.
- More traffic details can be found here
