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MA soon to have one more line with Russia

Montenegro Airlines MA managed to establish cooperation with the biggest tour operators on the Russian market, and there is a plan to open traffic with the third city in this country, said director of branch of MA in Russia, Bozidar Koljevic.

He said that Russian market was very complex, competition great. It has 17 avio companies that fly to Montenegro.

“MA has a modern fleet and represents optimal and the best choice for flying to Montenegro”, Koljevic said for MA magazine Luxury Inflight.

Since 2007, MA has had regular flights from Moscow, and since 2015, it had flights from St Petersburg as well.

“Despite competition, we managed to establish cooperation with tour operators such as TUI, PAKS, Biblio glogus, Natali tours, CG tours and ICS”, Koljevic added.

MA has two offices within the branch in Russia – one in Moscow center, near Montenegrin Embassy, and one on the Domodedovo Airport.

“We have three officers, two booking agents and one station manager, who succeeded in improving our individual sales thanks to market monitoring”, Koljevic said.

Station manager is tasked with monitoring planes, while booking agents issue tickets, which can be bought in both offices.

Koljevic was optimistic about the future and progress on Russian market. He said Russian passengers were very pleased with MA services.

“Safety and professionalism of MA employees are the main reason for our success”, he said.

He said that each year, during March and April, there are international fairs of tourism in Moscow and St Petersbourg, and MA takes active part in them.

“We promote our offer on Russian market every month through working breakfasts and phone sessions with tour operators. We actively participate with over 100 thousand individual passengers”, Koljevic said.

According to him, new challenges lie with opening avio traffic with Byelorussia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

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