Tallinn welcomed 2.7 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s own figures. Traffic at the airport serving the Estonian capital was about half that of fellow Baltics capitals Riga and Vilnius. Tallinn’s passenger volume was also about 16% lower than in 2019. This was for various reasons, including the end of Nordica’s scheduled operations. […]
February 22, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One recently estimated that airlines started around 1,850 new routes across Europe (excluding Russia) in 2022. Analysis of Cirium schedules data suggests that airlines have already revealed plans for at least 500 more new routes starting in 2023. However, with airlines announcing additional new routes almost every day at the moment, that number […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
airBaltic (IATA code BT) now serves Morocco for the first time. On Monday 31 October the carrier began 2-weekly service on the 3,735-kilometre route between its biggest base of Riga in Latvia and Marrakech. No other carrier connects these two airports. The service will be flown on Mondays and Fridays and is currently bookable until […]
November 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Air Service One talks with Laura Audarina, Route Development Manager, Riga Airport, ahead of Routes World in Las Vegas. We talked, low-cost carriers, network rebuild and also found out more about the friendly face representing Riga Airport. What have been the particular challenges faced by Riga Airport since the start of the pandemic? Riga Airport […]
The second half of 2021 saw the countries comprising the Baltic and Nordic region of Europe all show a significant recovery in passenger demand. By December the airports in the eight countries included in our analysis (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) were all reporting passenger numbers between 50% and 70% of […]
May 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
airBaltic has started a new route from its main base in Riga to Batumi in Georgia. The first flight was on Saturday 7 May using the airline’s A220-300s. This appears to be airBaltic’s only new route from Riga this summer. Although the two airports are just 2,120 kilometres apart, flying in a straight line between […]
May 12, 2022 | Latest Route News +
airBaltic has opened its first base outside of the Baltic nations with the introduction of additional services from Tampere in Finland. The airline first started serving the Finnish airport from Riga in October 2008, operating 2-daily flights using Fokker 50s. Service continued until October 2013 before being suspended. Flights resumed in April 2017 with Q400s […]
May 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
airBaltic on 18 December began a new seasonal service between its home base in Riga and Kittilä in Finland. Flights will operate weekly (every Saturday) on the 1,200-kilometre route until 12 March. The airline’s A220-300s will be used on the connection. Kittilä is in the Lapland region of northern Finland and lies within the Arctic […]
January 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
On 27 September, airBaltic became the latest carrier to add service to Dubai, this time from its main base at Riga in Latvia. The 4,320-kilometre route will be served 4-weekly, departing Riga on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The inaugural service (flight number BT 791 operated by an Airbus A220-300, registration YL-CSG) departed Riga at […]
October 1, 2021 | Latest Route News +
airBaltic launched its longest ever intra-European route when it began weekly service on Thursday 2 September between Riga in Latvia and Tenerife Sur in Spain. The inaugural service on the 4,511-kilometre route (flight number BT 761 operated by an Airbus A220-300, registration YL-CSE) departed Riga at 08:37 and touched down in Tenerife just under six […]
September 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Thursday 1 July saw airBaltic launch a new 2-weekly service between its main base in Riga and Valencia, on the east coast of Spain. The 2,630-kilometre route will be flown Thursdays and Sundays using the airline’s fleet of A220-300s. This brings to five the number of routes served in Spain by airBaltic from Riga, joining […]
July 4, 2021 | Latest Route News +