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29.05.2024 - 13:00 / traveldailynews.com / Vicky Karantzavelou
airBaltic enhances its onboard menu for the summer season with over 45% of offerings sourced from Latvia, featuring local snacks, drinks, and meals, including new additions like Rocket Bean coffee.
RIGA – The Latvian national airline, airBaltic reveals that its new summer season onboard menu includes more than 45% products from Latvia, which are available on all airBaltic flights. This offer involve a variety of snacks, drinks and meals, made by different manufacturers from Latvia.
New additions to the existing range of Latvian products on airBaltic’s summer season menu include Rocket Bean coffee and tea, Rudy’s Kombucha, and Rīga crafted cider by Tālava. Additionally, both – Business Class and Economy Class meals are prepared using products from Latvia.
Zane Eglīte, Inflight Service Manager at airBaltic: “When it comes to planning a new seasonal menu, we always strive to understand our customers’ preferences while exploring ways to introduce new products. It is very important for us to include products from Latvia on board. By doing so, we not only meet our customers’ needs during the inflight service but also promote these products to a global audience, including passengers from around the world.”
“We are continuously analyzing our inflight assortment and looking into new products to implement in our menu, to provide our passengers with a wider range of options,” Eglīte added.
In addition to the inflight menu, airBaltic serves its Business Class passengers a seasonal three-course meal prepared by a chef using Latvian products, and offers a wide selection of beverages throughout the flight. Meanwhile, Economy Class passengers can pre-order their meal before the flight, choosing from over 25 options.
airBaltic operates more than 130 routes from Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere and, seasonally, Gran Canaria, offering connections to a wide range of destinations in the airline’s route network in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus region.
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New Zealand is eager to get its tourism sector back to full-throttle after the country was entirely shut during the pandemic. One way to do this is to attract more tourists beyond the popular December to February months.
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