airBaltic clients face an extensive choice of destinations when they depart from Riga via Copenhagen or Stockholm.  One-way tickets to 49 destinations in Europe are being offered at a price of LVL 108 and up.  The flights are offered in co-operation with SAS Scandinavian Airlines.  A transit flight from Riga to Rome, Venice or Nice costs as little as LVL 108, including airport fees, when passing through Copenhagen.  A trip to Athens costs LVL 123 and up, while a journey to Lyon will set the traveller back as little as LVL 133, airport fees included.

Transit flights are also now available via Barcelona, which allows people to access some of the world’s most popular resorts – Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Malaga, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville, Tenerife and Grand Canaria.  These flights are offered by airBaltic in co-operation with Spanair, and one-way ticket prices start at just LVL 97, airport fees included.  Transit flights via Helsinki to Oulu, Kupio, Vasa and Roveniemi, which are offered by airBaltic and the SAS Group airline Blue 1, cost as little as LVL 87 one way, including airport fees.

There are eight transit flights which airBaltic offers via Istanbul, and ticket prices here start at LVL 91, including airport fees.  Popular destinations in Turkey include Antalya, Izmir, Bodrum and Ankara.  These transit flights are offered by airBaltic in collaboration with Atlasjet Airways.

“The structure of one-way prices for transit flights is a new concept for airBaltic.  I am convinced that there will be great demand for these tickets and that this will become a standard for the industry in the future.  We are expanding our co-operation with other airlines in the SAS Group, and this allows us to offer much more extensive opportunities to our passengers to travel inexpensively, making use of non-stop and transit flights alike,” explains the president of airBaltic, Bertolt Flick.

airBaltic introduced one-way ticket prices two years ago, and one year ago the price structure was introduced for nearly all non-stop airBaltic flights from Riga and Vilnius.  The one-way pricing model is much simpler for passengers, and the range of prices is quite wide.  It is key that this price structure does not involve the “Sunday rule”, which says that cheap tickets are available only if the passenger spends Saturday night at the destination.  There are now far wider opportunities for one-way flights that can be combined with other forms of transport and other tourism services.