We will start serving Simferopol on the Crimea , which gives a fast and easy access to Black Sea resorts around Yalta. We will fly to two Black Sea destinations, Odessa and the Crimea, and both are definitely worth a visit. From Riga we will open Bergen at the end of March, three times a week; and from Vilnius we will serve Budapest twice a week. From both of our bases, Riga and Vilnius, we will start flying to Dusseldorf and Warsaw. Dusseldorf replaces the flight to Cologne. From Riga, we will start flying to Baku and Tbilisi in May (pending government approval). We offer also excellent transit possibilities from Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics, to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Minsk, Baku and Tbilisi.

Traffic to the countries of the former Soviet Union is increasing, therefore we are opening more flights to the East. Simferopol will be the fourth  destination in Ukraine served by airbaltic.

On four routes from Riga, airbaltic will cancel the business class and introduce a one-class low-cost product. The destinations will be Oslo, Bergen, Helsinki and Hamburg. This will allow us to decrease our fares by an average of 30%. At the end of the summer we will evaluate whether airbaltic will retain a business class or change to a one-class concept in general.

I hope you will appreciate these changes.

Enjoy you flight

Yours,
Bertolt Flick
President and CEO