TIRANA, May 20/ATA/-The plans for building Vlora Airport are going ahead according to schedule and it’s expected that by June the construction works will kick off.
Deputy Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Etjen Xhafaj said in an interview for ATA that Vlora Airport is certainly a rather important development for the country and so are the increase of the number of flights like with Israel, the emirates and some other countries with which the negotiations have entered into an advanced phase.
Deputy Minister Xhafaj emphasized that, “Albania expects to have a better tourist season this current year as compared with the past and this will emphasize the need and influence the foreign companies decide on taking flights to Albania or build another airport after that of Vlora”.
During the coming tourist season, there will be 10 new destinations of direct flights with Albania and 3 others will experience a double increase of their capacity.
Albania’s Civil Aviation Authority has already approved the flights during the summer season and they will have a considerable impact to the number of tourists this current year.
The destinations added to Tirana airport table of flights are: Helsinki-Tirana (May 11 – Sept 28); Copenhagen-Tirana (June 2 -August 18); Budapest-Tirana; Moscow-Tirana (June 19-Sept 11); Stockholm/Oslo/Goteborg (May 12– Oct 2); Goteborg-Tirana (June 6 –October 3); Gdansk/Poznan/Warsaw/Prague/Katowice/London Gatwick from June to September.
Among the other destinations included are Tel Aviv – Tirana from the end of June-October 26; Luton-Tirana from April 19 to October 27. /r.e/ /a.g/p.s./
