The Caucasian country of Georgia could be served by a new charter airline as soon as this September following successful talks with two eastern European investors.
Aero Georgia is aiming to launch flights with a single narrow-body aircraft capable of carrying up to 150 passengers, Igor Aptsiauri, the company’s chief executive, told me in a telephone interview.
”This will be the first time that Georgia will have a purely charter airline,” he said.
”What we have noticed here in Georgia is that there’s a very big demand for charters. And not only in Georgia … If we look at the big airlines in eastern Europe and the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] region, the ones that are doing more or less OK financially are all charter airlines.”
Aptsiauri is a former deputy director of the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency and until recently held the title of commercial director at MyWay Airlines, a Chinese-backed scheduled carrier based in Tbilisi.
The business plan for the charter airline was developed by Aero Georgia Group, a new company launched by several former e […]
