AirBaltic presents the new schedule for summer 2009
Image via Wikipedia Rome, 4 March (Velino) - AirBaltic, the largest airline in the Baltic States, March 29 will open the summer season. Two points that characterize the new timetable, to meet the needs of its customers and confirm the development of the company: new routes to the Scandinavian countries, Baltic and Central Asian multi-frequency and in more than 20 routes are considered strategic. In addition, airBaltic will improve connections for passengers from Riga, which will become a reference hub for destinations to the north and east Europe. In detail, the new summer schedule, will launch four new routes airBatlic: Line-Tromso (Norway, four connections a week), Riga, Linkoping (Sweden, six connections per week), Riga-Palanga (Lithuania, twelve links per week) and Riga, Dushanbe (Tajikistan, two connections a week). Compared to the 2008 summer season, airBaltic will increase the number of flights between Riga and Baku (three links week), Barcelona (six connections per week), Bergen (three flights per week), Billund (three flights per week), Brussels (Twelve links per week), Dusseldorf (six connections per week), Yerevan (three flights per week ), Rome (the link is daily), Hamburg (ten links per week), Istanbul (daily service), Kaliningrad (daily service), Chisinau (daily service), Kuopio (four connections a week), London (eleven per week links ), Oslo (18 connections per week, up to three flights daily), Stavanger (three flights per week), Moscow (two connections a day), Tel Aviv (Six connections per week), while three destinations will be linked up to seven daily flights to Tallinn, Vilnius, Helsinki. Some destinations, such as Almaty, Athens, Odessa, Simferopol be made to return after their winter suspension. Bertolt Flick, president and CEO of airBaltic, comments: "We continue in the program to strengthen our route network in Scandinavia and the Baltic. We can offer a competitive and efficient transit and the new summer schedule improves the linkages and frequencies for passengers traveling via Riga.
(com / sch) March 4, 2009 14:01