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airBaltic to build Baltic Cargo Hub at Riga Airport

airBaltic and Riga Airport have signed a land reservation agreement for building a new Baltic Cargo Hub at Riga Airport. The new cargo hangar will be the largest dedicated air cargo handling facility in the Baltics.

airBaltic was the winner of a tender for the rent of land and construction of multimodal logistics centre issued by Riga Airport in November 2020. According to initial plans, the planned size of the Baltic Cargo Hub is 6000 m². It is currently planned to begin construction in late 2022 and finish the hangar by early 2024. The project will be financed through banks and operated by Baltijas Kravu centrs SIA – cargo handling subsidiary of airBaltic.

Top Copyright Photo: airBaltic Airbus A220-300 (Bombardier CS300 – BD-500-1A11) YL-CSK (msn 55039) (Lithuania) AMS (Karl Cornil). Image: 947447.

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airBaltic announces new flights to Manchester, Yerevan and two Norwegian cities

airBaltic has announced that as of summer season 2020 it will launch new flights from Riga to Manchester (United Kingdom), Yerevan (Armenia) as well as Bergen and Trondheim (both in Norway).

In addition, on May 1, 2020 airBaltic will launch flights from Tallinn to Nice. It will be the 14^th destination offered from the Estonian capital.

Destination served	Flight frequency	Start date	Price*, Basic	Price*, Premium	Price*, Business
Riga–Manchester	4 flights weekly	March 29, 2020	39 EUR	115 EUR	589 EUR
Riga–Bergen	3 flights weekly	March 31, 2020	35 EUR	89 EUR	365 EUR
Riga–Trondheim	2-3 flights weekly	April 1, 2020	49 EUR	115 EUR	375 EUR
Tallinn–Nice	2 flights weekly	May 1, 2020	99 EUR	145 EUR	549 EUR
Riga–Yerevan	2 flights weekly	May 3, 2020	99 EUR	145 EUR	529 EUR

^{*Lowest fare (one way), including taxes, fees and service charges, on www.airBaltic.com, subject to availability.}

Flights from Riga to Manchester will commence on March 29, 2020 and will be performed four times per week. Flights to Bergen and Trondheim will be launched on March 31 and April 1 respectively, while flights to Yerevan will begin on May 3, 2020.

The airBaltic fleet consists of 40 aircraft – 20 Airbus A220-300s, 8 Boeing 737s and 12 Bombardier Q400Next Gen aircraft.

Top Copyright Photo: airBaltic Airbus A220-300 (Bombardier CS300 – BD-500-1A11) YL-CSK (msn 55039) (Lithuania) AMS (Karl Cornil). Image: 947447.

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airBaltic publishes its full winter schedule with new routes

airBaltic has fully published its upcoming winter season schedule which will begin on October 27, 2019.

For the first time during this winter season airBaltic offers flights from Riga to Athens, Dublin, Keflavik (Reykjavik) and Stuttgart.

During the upcoming winter season, airBaltic will also offer seasonal flights to skiing resorts of Salzburg, Verona and Poprad Tatry as well as four weekly flights to Abu Dhabi, which this year will already be resumed by the beginning of October. airBaltic will also continue to offer such sunny leisure destinations as Malaga, Barcelona and Lisbon among others.

Flights to Dublin and Stuttgart will be served for the entire winter season. Flights to Reykjavik will be operated until January 31, 2020 and restart on March 3, 2020, but the flights from Riga to Athens will continue until December 1, 2019 and restart on March 4, 2020.

From Tallinn, airBaltic will launch a new season route to Salzburg. In addition, it will be the first winter season for flights to Malaga, Brussels and Copenhagen.

airBaltic serves over 70 destinations from Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, offering the largest variety of destinations and convenient connections via Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, the CIS and the Middle East.

Top Copyright Photo: airBaltic Airbus A220-300 (Bombardier CS300 – BD-500-1A11) YL-CSK (msn 55039) (Lithuania) AMS (Karl Cornil). Image: 947447.

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Norwegian to start Stockholm-Vilnius flights on May 8

Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.com) (Oslo) will launch a new route linking Stockholm (Arlanda) with Vilnius, Lithuania starting on May 8. The new route will be operated three days a week.

Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best/AirlinersGallery.com. The Boeing 737-300 is slowly being phased down, now to 10 aircraft. The pictured 737-3K2 LN-KKF (man 24326) displays Fridtjof Nansen on the tail.

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