Air Baltic is to launch a new route from Aberdeen to the Latvian capital of Riga for the summer 2014 schedule.
The Latvian carrier will operate the route four days per week from March 30 next year. The airline will use a Boeing 737 on the service which will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Carol Benzie, Aberdeen’s managing director, said: “The energy industry will benefit from this route, and many of our business passengers will value this service into Riga as well as the onward connections that serving this hub will provide.”
Michael Grimme, Air Baltic’s chief commercial officer, said that the new Aberdeen service would offer connections to cities in Russia, Ukraine and other regional destinations.
“We are now making the necessary preparations for the new Aberdeen-Riga route to offer excellent connections via Riga to and from destinations such as Baku, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Kiev, Odessa,” he said.
Aberdeen is also to benefit from Bmi Regional’s new planned service to Oslo in Norway which is due to start next month. Bmi Regional also began operating flights from Aberdeen to Kristiansund in Norway last month.
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