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The Baltic outlook – Flight Consulting Group is expanding business |
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May 2012
Flight Consulting Group a Latvian holding structure operating in business aviation sector for more than 10 years expands its business directions by having its own corporate travel division, own IT and aircraft charters.
Within our holding there was a new company Jet Travel opened dedicated to corporate travel and group travel solutions. Company’s main office is situated in Riga International Airport. Jet Travel works with international hotel chains as well as independent hotels providing extremely attractive hotel room rates all over the world. Especially Jet Travel provides reasonable rates for Moscow upscale hotels which were and are always not easy to book.
This year there was launched a new direction in FCG holding business development - IT solutions. Not a standard direction for business aviation companies actually.
“However, everything started with the fact that we needed to optimize our own computer system. But in work process we took a decision to unite our knowledge and experience accumulated across all these years, and have created a separate project – ERP & CRM systems for air companies and flight dispatch services.”, - says Roman Starkov, the owner of FCG.
This IT division has all prerequisites to grow into a separate FCG business unit.
Another FCG new division is aircraft chartering – business and group charters.
“This is the logical development of our many years expertise in this segment. We are offering a wide range of cost effective business aviation and passenger charter flight operations all around the world.
Our extremely strong side in charter operations are flights to difficult locations. From Cote D’Ivoire to Socotra Island, from deep picturesque Asian nature pearls to Latin America’s countries”, - says Leonid Gorodnitski, FCG member of the board.
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May 2012
Year 2011 was quite good for us. In general we are satisfied with the results. Annual growth in all holdings companies in average was 11%. However, the general aviation market in Latvia is very small. “Most of our customers are from Russian Federation, CIS and European countries. However there are some very praiseworthy air carriers in the Baltics and we see market development in this direction”, - says Roman Starkov, FCG owner.
“Regarding market development lots of things depend on external conditions and financial situation in Europe and world in general. In crisis conditions the quantity of local customers decreased. In spite of this fact, we have more customers than before the crisis. People pay more attention to their spending. That is why those companies which will offer a better quality for a reasonable price will win amongst competitors in the market, - says Leonid Gorodnitski, FCG Member of the Board. |
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January 2012
Continental Hockey League’s 2011/12 season’s „All-Star Game” took place in Riga on 21st and on 22nd of January in multifunctional sports and cultural hall Arena Riga.
This was already the 4th „All-Star Game” and the 2nd one which took place out of Russia.
During „All-Star Game” period FBO RIGA successfully handled all Continental Hockey Leagues’ management and player business flights.
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