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The last year’s turnover of one of the largest Lithuanian travel agencies BPC Travel that belongs to the group of the Lithuanian airline companies increased more than twice and reached 55 million Litas (compared with 25 million Litas in 2007). This year the company plans to retain its market position and continue to pay much attention to increasing the level of employees’ professional qualification and improving the customer service quality. More...

Having launched sales of trips for the winter season, travel agencies notice that Lithuanians have not yet learned to plan their vacation for the cold period of the year and tend toward extremes. Although the advance purchase of a trip allows the customer to save up to 20% of its price, only a small number of people take advantage of this opportunity. The majority of consumers wait for last-minute deals, and only a few people tend to purchase trips during the period between “first-minute” and “last-minute” deals. More...

The increasing demand for short-term, three days’, trips abroad lead to the birth of a new tour operator “Flyturas”. “Flyturas” sells fixed price, extra airfare fees included, package trips. The package includes direct flight into a country of your selection with “flyLAL” airlines and two nights in a minimum three-star hotel. The owner of “Flyturas” is one of the most rapidly growing travel agents in Lithuania “BPC Travel”. More...

Flight tickets shall be considered as one of the goods the finer points of which may be understood with a bit of difficulty. Probably more than once travellers by air transport have faced a situation when the ticket with the same departure or arrival time, the same class or the same plane have been given a different price by different sellers, let alone huge price differences between diverse but generally rather similar flights (e.g. flight by planes of different airlines to the same city). What seems to predetermine such price variations that can not be explained easily sometimes? More...

Skrisk.lt, an airline ticket booking website, is setting a new milestone in its services. The website, previously owned by “Litcargus”, has been purchased and renewed by travel agency BPC Travel”. This year, Skrisk.lt is aiming at achieving a 15-20% market share, with plans to take the leading position in Lithuanian online airline ticket sales during the next two years. More...

Booking a trip in advance provides a client the possibility to ensure the desired traveling conditions; furthermore, this is an opportunity to save up to 20 % of the trip’s cost. Travel agency BPC Travel, which is about to launch sales of trips for the forthcoming summer season, predicts that the number of clients, who choose booking trips in advance, would increase significantly. More...