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The airline has added five new destinations for the summer season of 2018 - Malaga (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Split (Croatia), Bordeaux (France) and Gdansk (Poland).

The airline points out that it intends to announce additional destinations for the 2018 summer season in the future.

''So far 2017 has been an excellent year for airBaltic – already seven brand new Bombardier CS300 aircraft have successfully joined our fleet as we are serving a growing family of customers. We are delighted to share the first glimpse of forecast how our 2018 is going to look, by announcing a wider selection of destinations that our customers have demanded for the next summer. Network expansion is a key part of our Horizon 2021 business plan that enables us to further improve connections between the Baltic region and the rest of the world,'' said Wolfgang Reuss, Senior Vice President Network Management of airBaltic.

During the first six months of 2017, airBaltic has carried a total of 1,565,462 passengers, which is the second highest number of passengers in the history of the airline.

airBaltic currently operates flights to approximately 60 destinations from Riga Airport, and also operates direct flights from Vilnius and Tallinn as well.