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Albania launches flag carrier in bid to offer cheaper ticket prices

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TIRANA, Sept. 17 – Albania has launched its Air Albania national airline, a joint venture with Turkey’s flag carrier Turkish Airlines, in a bid to offer lower ticket prices as part of a bigger project to open up new airports that would also serve the emerging tourism industry in the country. A test flight carrying high school students of excellence inaugurated the national carrier last weekend with a Tirana-Istanbul flight that will apparently be followed by regular flights linking Albania to Turkey and other major regional and European destinations, including a projected direct flight to New York. Speaking at a…

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