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New routes in the 2017 summer schedule connect the Estonian capital with Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Gothenburg, the airport operator Tallinna Lennujaam said. The national carrier Nordica will operate 13 weekly flights on the St. Petersburg route beginning from May 15. Thrice weekly direct flights to Hamburg will begin on the next day, and starting from August Nordica will offer six flights per week to Gothenburg.

The Russian carrier Rusline will launch twice daily flights to St. Petersburg on May 22, and British Airways will be flying from Tallinn to London Heathrow twice a week from March 28.

Nine routes will be reopened for the summer season. At the end of March Ryanair will resume flights to Bremen, Dublin and Girona. Nordica will reopen flight routes to Nice and Split in mid-April and routes to Odessa and Rijeka in mid-May. Vueling will start flying to Barcelona at the end of June and Aegean Airlines, to Athens at the end of May.

Several airlines will increase flight frequency for the summer season. Thus, Lufthansa will add a third daily flight to Frankfurt and Turkish Airlines will start flying to Istanbul every day of the week. Finnair will add to its schedule a ninth daily flight on the Tallinn-Helsinki route from September through October.