(openPR) - Frankfurt-Karben, Germany / 24 November, 2009:
As an airline committed to opening new routes and increasing the number of passengers served, management at Montenegro Airlines understood that the challenges of the EU ETS needed to be met with a strategic and expert approach. GALLEHR+PARTNER were appointed to support them in putting together their monitoring plans.

“Following attendance at a conference held by GALLEHR+PARTNER, we decided that this company was ideally positioned to support us; their experience and expertise being exactly that which we needed,” explained Miodrag Stanic, Operations Center Manager at Montenegro Airlines. “Our future plans include further modernization, the enlargement of our fleet and increasing the number of passengers we serve, therefore, we needed to ensure that our approach to the EU ETS matched our strategic aims and enabled our continued success.”

Sebastian Gallehr, CEO of GALLEHR+PARTNER said: “There was always the concern that smaller airlines would be at a competitive disadvantage through the implementation of EU ETS, Montenegro Airlines have shown that with the right approach there is no need to worry. Through the last six years of working with other industries, our customers have proven that it is possible to positively embrace the environmental goals at the heart of this legislation – for the good of the environment, and the economy.”

Montenegro Airlines was founded in 1994 and is licensed to operate scheduled domestic and international passenger transport and charter operations, as well as for carriage of cargo and mail. Over the years, Montenegro Airlines has developed into a modern institution, operating in accordance with modern global standards. Today, Montenegro Airlines operates scheduled flights to London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome, Paris, Ljubljana, Vienna, Belgrade, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Niš, Skopje and Priština, successfully establishing an air bridge between Montenegro and Europe.

The Montenegro Airlines fleet consists of 7 modern aircraft - five Fokker 100s and two Embraer 195s.

GALLEHR+PARTNER, the CO2 Navigator for Industries is a consulting and service company with strategic, technological and business expertise in the sphere of Resource Efficiency and Climate Change. Since 2003, GALLEHR+PARTNER has successfully consulted power supply companies and other energy-intensive industries. Focus in the aviation sector concerns the issues Carbon Strategies and Emissions Trading, Risk Management, Energy Management and IT and/or Process Optimization. From the very beginning, GALLEHR+PARTNER engaged itself with new issues within these areas for the financial benefit of the customers. German based GALLEHR+PARTNER are active throughout Europe and Asia.

As well as founder of GALLEHR+PARTNER, Sebastian Gallehr is also CEO of the European Business Council for Sustainable Energy (e5), founding member of DESERTEC and is member of the European Climate Forum where he is domain leader of the ECF Capacity Center.

GALLEHR+PARTNER joined the IATA (International Air Transport Association) Strategic Partnerships programme in 2009 to further promote understanding of environmental strategies, and in particular understanding of the Emissions Trading Scheme and its potential impact on the aviation industry. To learn more about IATA Strategic Partners and the Strategic Partnerships programme, visit the IATA Web site at www.iata.org/sp

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