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Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 - 10:22 Makkah mean time-18-3-1437
Tirana, (IINA) - Albania officials said that they have reached an agreement with the shareholders in Tirana International Airport (TIA) recently to end its exclusive right to host international flights and build new airports that will host low-cost flights, Balkan Insight reported.
The center-left government, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, pledged in the 2013 election campaign to reconsider the concession with TIA shareholders and liberalize the market to open up the way for low-cost flights.
Under a concession agreement signed in October 2004, TIA holds the right to manage Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport for 20 years with a monopoly on all international flights to and from Albania.
Minister of Economy Arben Ahmetaj told a meeting last Tuesday with tourist operators that they had agreed with TIA concession holders to end the monopoly on international flights and introduced the way to build airports in southern Albania that will carry low-cost flights.
"We have agreed with the TIA concession shareholders to liberalize international flights, and we have concrete offers to build airports that will carry low costs flights from Vlora and Saranda [resorts in southern Albania]", Ahmetaj said.
He added that the agreement with TIA would soon be passed by the government and parliament.
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