airBaltic of Latvia is pushing its expansion forward, with the announcement of new routes out of Riga and Tallinn.
airBaltic Airbus A220-300 (CS300) – Image, airBaltic.
Manchester and Yevevan will gain connectivity from the Lativan captial of Riga. In addition, the Norweigan destinations of Bergan and Trondheim will join them on their network In addition, a route from Tallinn a route to Nice will be launched.
In terms of frequencies, Manchester will gain a four-times a week service from the 29th March, whilst Yerevan will commence of 3rd May 2020 with a twice a week service.
Meanwhile, the Nordic services will gain 2-3 services a week to each destination, whilst Talinn to Nice will operate twice a week.
The full breakdown from airBaltic looks like this (including pricing)
In quotes
Martin Gauss, CEO of airBaltic said
“With addition of several new exciting destinations, next summer season airBaltic will perform up to 100 daily scheduled flights. We are glad to offer our passengers a larger variety of destinations and further improve connectivity between Baltics and the world.”
Growing out the network
airBaltic has been making slow and deliberate moves to grow out its network. And its done that thanks primarily to its fleet upgrade. With the airline moving away from Dash-8 Q400 and Boeing 737 family to the Airbus A220-300 exclusively, the airline is taking advantage of both the capacity, range and flexibility of the type to launch new routes (remeber, this is the airline that flies the A220-300 between riga and Abu Dhabi)
And it’s working out well for the airline it seems.
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