150:. They also began establishing relationships with airports throughout the UK in order to charter flights to these and other destinations. In the mid-1990s, Transun was the first operator to run flights to New York from regional UK airports such as Leeds Bradford, Belfast, Aberdeen and Liverpool. The company received special attention at the World Travel Market in 2002 for its travel offerings to Thailand, receiving a visit from Her Royal Highness Princess Ubolratana of the kingdom of Thailand, as well as Thailand’s Minister of Tourism Sontaya Kunplome. Both were interested in Transun’s focus on Koh Samui as a primary destination for the company’s travel packages.
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Enontekio specifically. Crawshaw called upon Finavia’s CEO Kimmo Mäki to resign, and after an intervention from the office of Finland’s Prime Minister
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at the age of 18, and was working in the airline industry in London when he founded
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