airBaltic discontinues flights from Liepaja during winter

The Latvian airline airBaltic will discontinue flights from Liepaja to Hamburg, Copenhagen and Riga during winter season. The airline plans to resume the flights during next year’s summer season. The airline’s decision is due to seasonal decrease in passenger flow characteristic of winter.

Flights from Liepaja to Copenhagen and Hamburg will be continued until 18 October, while those from Liepaja to Riga – until 1 October.

The timetable will remain in effect until March 28, 2009. During the winter, airBaltic will offer four new destinations from its base in Riga – Amsterdam (the Netherlands, daily), Hannover (Germany, five times a week), Tampere (Finland, twice a day), and Dubai (United Arab Emirates, twice a week). As is the case each winter, airBaltic will also offer flights to two Egyptian destinations for sun lovers – Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh.

Furthermore, the airline has increased the frequency of flights to Billund (three flights a week), Brussels (11 flights a week), Dusseldorf (six flights a week), Rome (six flights a week), Istanbul (seven flights a week), Kiev (twice daily), Kaliningrad (14 flights a week), Chisinau (seven flights a week), and Munich (eight flights a week).

During the winter of 2008, airBaltic will serve the following 48 destinations from Riga: Aalesund, Almaty, Amsterdam, Baku, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Copenhagen, Chisinau, Dubai, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsinki, Hurghada, Istanbul, Kaliningrad, Kiev, Kuopio, London, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Odessa, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Simferopol, Sharm-el-sheikh, Stavanger, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tampere, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Zurich, and Yerevan.

From Vilnius this winter, airBaltic will offer flights to Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, London, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Paris (from March 9), Riga, Rome (from March 10), Stockholm, and Tallinn. Since the beginning of September, airBaltic has increased the frequency of flights between Vilnius to Riga to five flights a day.