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airBaltic to launch direct flights from Riga to Swedish Linkoping

Alla Petrova, BC, Riga, 28.04.2009.Print version
On April 30, the Latvian airline airBaltic will begin operating direct flights between Riga and the Swedish city of Linkoping, continuing to offer convenient connections via Riga to/from Western Europe, C.I.S. countries, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean region, as the airline informed LETA.

airBaltic will operate four direct flights a week between the two cities – on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday evenings to Linkoping and Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Monday mornings to Riga. Passengers will fly aboard a "Boeing 737" airplane, and the flight will take 1 hour and 10 minutes. One-way ticket prices begin at LVL 49 including airport and transaction fees.

 

The new flight offers convenient transit connections via Riga to and from 50 destinations in Western Europe, C.I.S. countries, and Mediterranean region.

 

From Riga in summer 2009 airBaltic offers direct flights to Aalesund, Almaty, Athens, Amsterdam, Baku, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Copenhagen, Chisinau, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Dushanbe, 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.

 

Linkoping is the fifth largest city in Sweden and it features the country’s third largest cultural and sports arena, as well as home for the Sweden's second largest High-tech park. Linkoping is also the center of the Swedish aviation industry, since SAAB has had an aircraft factory in Linkoping from 1937, when the company was established.






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