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airBaltic to start new routes to Visby and Lulea in Sweden

Alla Petrova, BC, Riga, 18.03.2010.Print version
For the summer season, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will start serving the Swedish cities of Visby and Lulea, to offer convenient connections over its North Hub Riga to the airline’s network in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East, informed BC Janis Vanags, vice President corporate communications of airBaltic.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “After a profitable 2009, we continue to strengthen airBaltic’s main hub in Riga by opening two new destinations in Sweden. This is the first time in history that Visby and Lulea will be connected to Riga.”

 

New routes

Days of operation

Starting date

Price (including taxes, fees and service charges)*

Visby (Sweden) – Riga (Latvia)

1,5,7

June 4

EUR 36/ SEK 440

Lulea (Sweden) – Riga (Latvia)

1,2,4,6 (from Lulea)

1,3,5,7 (from Riga)

June 3 (Lulea)

June 2 (Riga)

EUR 42/SEK 480

The lowest available fare at www.airbaltic.com.

 

A full schedule of airBaltic flights can be found on the company’s homepage at www.airbaltic.com. The website also offers travel packages (flights+hotels) at 20% discount, and a wide range of other products and services.

 

For 2009 airBaltic has announced 20 million EUR preliminary profit, and achieved 6% passenger growth to 2.75 million passengers. In 2010, airBaltic has so far announced eleven new destinations from its Riga hub including Madrid, Belgrade, Vaasa, Umea, Beirut, Amman, Manchester, Rovaniemi, Kuusamo, Visby and Lulea.

 

Regardless of the point of departure, airBaltic offers convenient connections over its North Hub Riga to the airline’s network in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.






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