This summer time, Latvia’s nationwide service airBaltic will develop its vary of providers with ten new routes and elevated frequencies on current summer time leisure and brief break routes.
The summer time flight season, which can start on Sunday, 26 March, will likely be launched at Riga Airport with 11 new locations, thus considerably increasing the vary of connections from Riga, together with two new locations – Hanover in Germany and Gdansk in Poland. Passengers could have a possibility to journey to 100 direct locations from Riga.
“On this summer time season, Riga is anticipated to supply ample journey alternatives for Latvian and Baltic travellers and engaging connections for passengers who will select Riga Airport as a switch level for his or her onward flights. Due to the numerous vacationer locations, the variety of direct passengers at Riga Airport has approached the pre-pandemic degree, whereas the variety of transit passengers will improve with new airBaltic routes corresponding to Istanbul, Baku, Yerevan and others,” says Laila Odiņa, Chairperson of the Airport Board. “As we begin the brand new season, we’re additionally bringing passengers new provides, together with unprecedented provides from outlets and cafés. It’s subsequently a terrific pleasure to be recognised internationally and to begin the brand new season because the third finest airport in Japanese Europe within the newest airport rating by the celebrated aviation trade score company Skytrax, which relies on the outcomes of buyer voting,” says the pinnacle of the Airport.
This summer time, Latvia’s nationwide service airBaltic will develop its vary of providers with ten new routes and elevated frequencies on current summer time leisure and brief break routes. From 15 April, airBaltic will fly twice weekly on the route Riga–Hanover–Riga – a German metropolis to which Riga has had no direct air connection till now. The brand new schedule may even embody twice-weekly flights to Porto and Bilbao from Might, and four-times-weekly flights to Istanbul from the start of April. In Might, common flights may even be launched to Bucharest, Burgas, Belgrade, Tivat, Yerevan and Baku.
On 28 March, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair will begin flights from Riga to the northern Polish metropolis of Gdansk, with which there was no direct air visitors earlier than. Flights on this route are scheduled 3 times per week.
The Greek airline Aegean will return to the vary of airways in Riga within the upcoming summer time season as an everyday service with flights on the Riga–Athens route twice per week, ranging from 19 Might.
Thus, 15 carriers will function at Riga Airport in the summertime season of 2023. It’s deliberate that within the first full week of the summer time flight schedule, the variety of passenger flights will improve by greater than 10 % as in comparison with the tip of the winter season and can exceed 1 000 passenger flights per week.
Riga Airport is rigorously making ready for the summer time season and the rise in passenger move. Recruitment is underway for round 40 vacancies; the bags dealing with system has been upgraded, which can each strengthen aviation safety and improve the Airport’s baggage sorting capability. For the comfort of passengers, the Airport has 18 catering shops within the departures space, 26 snack and scorching drink merchandising machines and 9 duty-free outlets. In March, a brand new magnificence and wellness retailer Apotheka Well being & Magnificence was opened within the terminal, whereas different new additions in latest months embody cell phone and equipment retailer Evelatus and jewelry retailer Given. And Tickerdaze, a favorite with passengers, has added 70 new dishes to its menu with the summer time season, increasing and modernising its kitchen. The Sixt automotive rental service, situated in arrivals corridor E, has additionally expanded it providers.
The summer time flight schedule normally takes impact with the change to summertime, which this yr takes place on the night time of 25-26 March.
Passengers scheduled to fly on 26 March ought to plan their arrival time rigorously, because the clocks are set ahead by one hour in the course of the night time.
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