Estonia, Latvia, Tourism, Transport

As airBaltic improves transit via Riga and offers increasingly more destinations, with attractive prices, in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Mediterranean and the CIS, the number of Estonian travellers via the Latvian capital continues to grow. The number of passengers of airBaltic has grown 68 % on the flights to/from Estonia in the first seven months of 2009 when the airline carried 99 055 passengers. The number of passengers stood at 58 754 in the same January-July period in 2008.

airBaltic has introduced a total of eleven new destinations from its home base in Riga this year – Turku (Finland), Tromso (Norway), Linkoping (Sweden), Palanga and Kaunas (Lithuania), Tartu (Estonia), Pskov (Russia), Warsaw (Poland), Geneva (Switzerland), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Frankfurt (Germany).

This year airBaltic has introduced two new routes originating from Estonia. On July 3, airBaltic started operations on the Tartu-Riga route that offers excellent connections to destinations such as Berlin, Zurich, Venice, Vienna, Moscow, Tashkent, and others. On October 1, the first flight will be operated on Tallinn-Turku, which is the first new route of airBaltic that links Estonia and Finland, and improves travel between the two European Cultural Capitals of 2011.