Few airports in Europe can boast of the performance and success achieved by iGA Istanbul in recent years, which is on course to retain its title as the continent’s busiest in 2023. Growing from 61 carriers prior to the pandemic to 96 today, with a target to reach 100 by the end of the year, […]
November 20, 2023 | Air Service Community News
airBaltic carried 3.3 million passengers in 2022, down by more than a third versus 2019. Aside from using wet leased aircraft in the summer, the carrier’s own fleet comprises of A220-300s. It has 42, with the 50th due next summer. It anticipates up to 100, many of which will be based outside the Baltics while […]
June 29, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
airBaltic added another new route to its network on Saturday 15 April with the introduction of flights between Riga and Hannover. The 1,045-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, primarily with the 148-seat A220-300. Select flights will be operated by an A319, which airBaltic has wet-leased from Romania’s Carpatair for the summer peak […]
April 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
airBaltic (IATA code BT) inaugurated the first of twenty new routes for the summer with the introduction of seasonal flights between Riga and Istanbul IST on Sunday 2 April. The 1,775-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 148-seat A220-300. It competes against Turkish Airlines’ 10-weekly service on the […]
April 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Research and analysis by Air Service One, using a variety of data sources including Cirium schedules data and Flightradar24.com, suggests that airlines have launched just under 200 new routes involving European airports during the first few days of the summer 2023 (S23) season, from Friday 24 March to Thursday 30 March. Over 100 of these […]
March 31, 2023 | 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 […]
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 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 +
In case anyone thought that Wizz Air had become the new champion of new route launches across Europe, Ryanair has apparently made it clear that it is still Europe’s leading airline when it comes to starting new services. Research by The ANKER Report indicates that Europe’s biggest (U)LCC will be launching almost 250, yes 250, […]
November 1, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 +