Northern European airline AirBaltic is to add 18 new routes for the summer 2023 schedule as part of a major expansion next year.
The Latvia-based carrier will add 10 routes from its main base in Riga from the end of March 2023, as well as four new destinations from both Tallinn in Estonia and Vilnius in Lithuania.
The first new route to start will be Riga to Istanbul, which will operate four times per week from 2 April 2023. Other new destinations from Riga include Hannover, Bucharest, Porto, Burgas in Bulgaria, Bilbao, Tivat in Montenegro, Yerevan in Armenia, Belgrade and Baku in Azerbaijan.
New services from Tallinn will operate to Split, Dubrovnik, Rhodes and Heraklion. AirBaltic will also fly from Vilnius to Malaga, Palma, Nice and Heraklion in summer 2023.
Capacity will be further increased by adding more frequencies on key existing routes from Riga such as Barcelona, Lisbon and Rome.
Martin Gauss, president and CEO of airBaltic, said: “This is the largest number of new routes in a single season we have ever seen at airBaltic. We continue to be committed to our home cities in the Baltics and improving connectivity to and from the region.”