Riga 16.02.2009 The Latvian airline airBaltic will launch its summer season on March 29, 2009, offering new Scandinavian and Baltic destinations. The number of flights on more than 20 popular routes will be increased substantially and flight connections improved to cater for the transit passenger. During the summer of 2009, airBaltic plans to offer three new routes between Riga and Tromso (Norway, 4 times per week), Linkoping (Sweden, 6 times per week), Palanga (Lithuania, 12 times per week). Compared to the summer schedule in 2008, airBaltic will increase the number of flights between Riga and Baku (3 times per week), Barcelona (6 times per week), Bergen (3 times per week), Billund (3 times per week), Brussels (12 times per week), Dusseldorf (6 times per week), Yerevan (3 times per week), Rome (daily), Hamburg (10 times per week), Istanbul (daily), Kaliningrad (daily), Chisinau (daily), Kuopio (4 times per week), London (11 times per week), Oslo (18 times per week, up to 3 times per day), Stavanger (3 times per week), Moscow (twice daily), Tel Aviv (6 times per week), while three destinations will be served up to 7 times per day - Tallinn, Vilnius, Helsinki. A number of destinations (for example, Almaty, Athens, Odessa, Simferopol etc.) will return to airBaltic summer schedule from their winter hybernation. Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic, comments: "We continue strengthening our network of routes into Scandinavia and the Baltic region. We have now reached the necessary critical mass to offer an attractive and efficient transit product, and our summer schedule features improved connections and better flight frequencies for the passenger travelling via Riga." | NEW FLIGHTS (from Riga) | Days of operation | Start date | Price (incl.taxes,
fees, charges)* | Tromso (Norway) | 2,3,5,7 (from Riga) /
1,3,4,6 (from Tromso) | March 31 | LVL 49/70 EUR | Linkoping (Sweden) | Daily (except 6) | April 30 | LVL 25/35 EUR | Palanga (Lithuania) | 12 times per week
(Twice daily, except 7
morning and 6 evening) | April 01 | LVL 25/35 EUR |
*The lowest fare available in the Internet at www.airbaltic.comINCREASED FLIGHT
FREQUENCY
S09/S08 (from Riga) | Days of operation | Start date | Price (incl.taxes,
fees, charges)* | Baku | 3,6,7 | March 11 | LVL 65/92 EUR | Barcelona | Daily (except 2) | Year round | LVL 65/92 EUR | Bergen | 1,4,7 | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR | Billund | 2,4,7 | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR | Brussels | Twice daily (1 per day on weekends) | Year round | LVL 49/70 EUR | Dusseldorf | Daily (except 6) | Year round | LVL 29/40 EUR | Yerevan | 2,5,7 | March 24 | LVL 65/92 EUR | Rome | Daily | Year round | LVL 49/70 EUR | Hamburg | Up to 2 times daily | Year round | LVL 25/35 EUR | Helsinki | Up to 3 times daily | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR | Istanbul | Daily | Year round | LVL 59/84 EUR | Kaliningrad | Daily | Year round | LVL 65/92 EUR | Chisinau | Daily | Year round | LVL 59/84 EUR | Kuopio | 1,4,5,7 | April 02 | LVL 59/84 EUR | London | Up to 2 times daily | Year round | LVL 49/70 EUR | Oslo | Up to 3 times daily | Year round | LVL 25/35 EUR | Stavanger | 1,4,5 | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR | Moscow | Up to 2 times daily | Year round | LVL 49/70 EUR | Tallinn | Up to 7 times daily | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR | Tel Aviv | Daily (except 5) | Year round | LVL 109/155 EUR | Vilnius | Up to 7 times daily | Year round | LVL 39/55 EUR |
*The lowest fare available in the Internet at www.airbaltic.comRETURNS from
hybernation (from Riga) | Days of operation | Start date | Price (incl.taxes,
fees, charges)* | Almaty | 4,7 | May 31 | LVL 49/70 EUR | Athens | 2,4,6 | March 31 | LVL 55/78 EUR | Simferopol | 2,3,6 | May 06 | LVL 79/112 EUR | Odessa | 1,2,4,5,7 | March 29 | LVL 65/92 EUR | Aalesund | 4,7 | March 19 | LVL 39/55 EUR | Hannover | 1,2,4,5,7 | March 02 | LVL 25/35 EUR | Oulu | 1,3,5,7 | March 27 | LVL 59/84 EUR |
*The lowest fare available in the Internet at www.airbaltic.comFrom Riga in summer 2009 airBaltic will offer direct flights to Aalesund, Almaty, Athens, Amsterdam, Baku, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Copenhagen, Chisinau, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kaliningrad, Kiev, Kuopio, London, Linkoping, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Odessa, Oslo, Oulu, Palanga, Paris, Rome, Simferopol, Stavanger, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tampere, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tromso, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Zurich and Yerevan. From Vilnius airBaltic offers direct flights to Copenhagen, Milan, Munich, Riga, Stockholm and Tallinn. Corporate profile |
