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Home / Press room / Baltic Outlook / December 2005/January 2006

Baltic Outlook

December 2005/January 2006

Editorial
The year 2005 has again been a year full of remarkable change in the Baltic aviation markets. As expected, the market liberalisation after EU-membership has led to a substantial increase in passenger numbers. At the same time this has generated an even greater increase in competition, particularly from low-cost carriers. Over 70% of the Latvian aviation market is now taken up by low-cost carriers, including airBaltic. Latvia is therefore the country with the highest low-cost penetration in the world.
Bertolt Flick
 

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Winter timetable: more flights, more destinations
AirBaltic’s new timetable for the winter season 2005 – 2006 includes more flights to more destinations than ever before. With new cities, increased flight frequencies and an expanded fleet, the airline looks set to continue its remarkable growth.
Dnepropetrovsk
 

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airBaltic and Austrian Airlines sign codeshare agreement
AirBaltic has signed a new codeshare agreement with Austrian Airlines. As of 14 November 2005, all airBaltic and Austrian Airlines flights between Riga and Vienna are now allocated both airlines’ flight numbers. This revives a prior agreement which came to an end in 2002.
 

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airBaltic and Donbassaero cooperate on Riga-Dnepropetrovsk route
On 15 November 2005, airBaltic signed a codeshare agreement with Ukrainian airline Donbassaero. Donbassaero, which is one of the leading carriers on the Ukrainian domestic market, has its main hub in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, and this agreement will give Donbassaero and airBaltic passengers greatly improved access to one another’s networks.
 

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Riga: Europe’s new east-west hub
With the inauguration of airBaltic’s new flight to the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, the Latvian airline has broadened its portfolio of destinations within the former USSR. To increase the ease and flexibility of travel to these destinations, airBaltic offers passengers flying from airports across Scandinavia one-way ticketing to selected Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian cities.
 

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Don’t forget: kids go for LVL 1!
One-way ticketing is not the only advantageous system which airBaltic offers its customers. For the last two years, the airline has also been benefiting family travellers with its “kids go for LVL 1” policy. According to this offer, if an adult reserves seats to travel with a child aged 11 or under, the child’s ticket costs precisely LVL 1 (LTL 5 /EUR 2) plus the relevant airport taxes.
 

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E-dessert: sweet sensation
Yet another long-standing benefit of the airBaltic system is its “E-dessert” series of discount tickets: a range of ticket offers available to passengers who book online.
 

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Catherine’s Glory
Opened to the world only ten years ago after decades as a closed, military-industrial city, Dnepropetrovsk is full of surprises. Founded by order of Catherine the Great to commemorate Russia’s victory in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768 – 74 and to cement her hold on the southern steppes, it has been a bastion of both Russian imperialism and revolutionary communism. Now it encapsulates the new dynamism of post-independence Ukraine.
 

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