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Thursday, 25.04.2024, 09:36
Riga Airport to offer 89 flight destinations in the summer season
In addition to the existing routes, airlines will offer 16
new destinations for both business travel and leisure purposes.
The widest range of new destinations will be offered by the national airline airBaltic: from 26 March to Tampere (Finland) and Odessa (Ukraine); from April 26 - to Kazan (Russia); from 2 May - the Aberdeen (United Kingdom) and Stavanger (Norway); from 4 May - to Geneva (Switzerland); from 11 May – to Catania (Italy); from 16 May to Liepāja (Latvia); from 26 May - to Madrid (Spain); and from 1 June - to Gothenburg (Sweden).
From 13
July to 17 August, while Vilnius Airport is planned to be closed, airBaltic will
also operate flights to Kaunas (Lithuania). The national airline will also
significantly increase the number of flights to Helsinki (Finland) and Kiev
(Ukraine).
As of 25 June, low-cost airline Wizzair will
operate two new services twice weekly: to Reykjavik (Iceland) and Bari (Italy).
In turn, Scandinavian Air System (SAS) as
of 26 March will offer 12 flights weekly to Copenhagen (Denmark).
On 29 May, a new airline - Russia's largest regional
air carrier RusLine - will launch flights from Riga to Moscow
Domodedovo Airport six times a week.
Ellinair, in turn, will offer charter flights to
Heraklion, the capital of Crete.
Altogether 17 carriers will operate flights from Riga
Airport during the summer season: airBaltic, Ryanair, WizzAir, Aeroflot,
SAS, Finnair, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Lufthansa, LOT Polish Airlines,
Utair, Turkish Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, RusLine, Uzbekistan
Airways, Belavia, Ellinair and Smartlynx Airlines.
Ilona Līce, Chairman of the Board of Riga International
Airport: "Riga Airport is the leader in the Baltic Region both in terms of
passenger traffic and the range of destinations and connectivity. Travellers
from Riga can easily reach any place of the world: both with the direct
long-haul flights to New York (USA), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Reykjavik (Iceland)
and Tel Aviv (Israel); or by travelling to major European air traffic hubs in
the UK, Germany or Scandinavia. It is wonderful that the national airline airBaltic and
other carriers have so many new things to offer, including some truly exciting
destinations such as Geneva, Madrid, Odessa, Kazan, Bari, Reykjavik and others,
which will undoubtedly help the Airport to attract new travellers."
From the beginning of the year to 20 March, Riga
International Airport handled 979 739 passengers, which is 3.3% more
than in the corresponding period of 2016. During this year's first two months,
the transit and transfer passenger traffic grew by 14.2%, amounting to 26% of
the total number of passengers. London, Moscow and Frankfurt were the most
popular destinations in January.