With the opening of the base, the network of direct flight routes from Riga Airport will be expanded by Norwegian Airline, in addition to the already popular flights to Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Trondheim, offering direct flights to the leisure destinations of Tivat and Corfu.
British Airways, after a well-spent winter, will continue flights between Riga and Heathrow Airport in London in the summer as well.
From October, “flydubai” will join the airlines operating at Riga Airport, which will offer travelers flights between Riga and Dubai three times a week. Therefore, 21 airlines will work at Riga Airport, providing direct connections with 44 countries of the world.
In general, the volume of regular and charter flights will increase by five percent at Riga Airport, compared to the summer season of the previous year, with airlines carrying out up to 1,200 passenger flights every week.
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airBaltic’s flight frequency will increase by 16 departing flights per week, which will mainly be provided by the new destinations. The Irish low-cost airline “Ryanair” will double the number of flights on the Riga-Stockholm route this summer – from six to 12 flights per week, and will also increase the frequency of flights to Dublin, Krakow and Rome.
“Uzbekistan Airways” between Riga and Tashkent, which is one of the busiest flight routes, will provide four flights a week this summer instead of the previous three flights. The number of flights operated by the Polish airline LOT from Riga to Warsaw will also increase by two (16 times a week), and “Lufthansa” will also offer 16 flights between Riga and Frankfurt instead of the previous 14 flights.
The summer flight list usually comes into effect with the transition to summer time, which this year takes place on the night of March 30 to 31.
We invite passengers whose flights are scheduled for March 31 to carefully plan their arrival time at the airport, as the clocks will have to be turned forward one hour on the night of Sunday.
