airBaltic Starts Riga-Umeå Flights

26.03.2010 06:16 | Latvia

Author: Janis Vanags
Source: A/S Air Baltic Corporation

On March 26, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will start operating flights on the route from Riga to Umeå in Sweden.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “airBaltic will become the first airline in history to link Umeå and Riga – two cities that have been nominated to become Europe’s cultural capitals in 2014. airBaltic made a similar step already at the end of last year when the link between two European Capitals of Culture 2011 Turku and Tallinn was established. airBaltic has worked hard to expand its list of destinations in Scandinavia. We want to allow people from the region to visit Latvia or to use Riga as a transit airport for flights to destinations such as Barcelona, Berlin, Zurich, Venice, Vienna, Moscow, Kaliningrad, and many others. Umeå is a lovely destination, and the new airBaltic route will surely attract increasing numbers of travellers from Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the CIS.”

New Flights (from Riga)

Days of operation

Start date

Price (incl. taxes, fees, charges)*

Umeå (Sweden)

1,3,5,7 (from Riga)

1,2,4,6 (from Umeå)

From May 31:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

March 26

LVL 28, EUR 39

* The lowest available fare at www.airbaltic.com.

airBaltic will fly from Riga to Umeå four times a week – Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays (from Umeå to Riga on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays). The flights to and from Umeå will make a stop at the Finnish town of Vaasa. Passengers will board a Fokker 50 aircraft for a flight that will last for two hours and 30 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LVL 28 (EUR 39), including airport fees and transaction costs. A full schedule of flights is available on the company’s homepage – http://www.airbaltic.com/.

airBaltic serves 80 destinations from its home base at Riga, Latvia. From every one of these, airBaltic offers convenient connections via North Hub Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.

airBalticin brief:

AIR BALTIC CORPORATION (airBaltic) is a joint stock company that was established in 1995. The primary shareholders are the Latvian state, with 52.6% of stock, and SIA Baltijas aviācijas sistēmas, with 47.2% of stock. The airBaltic fleet consists of 31 aircraft – ten Boeing 737-500, eight Boeing 737-300, two Boeing 757-200, and eleven Fokker 50 airplanes. airBaltic offers nonstop flights from three Baltic capital cities – Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. airBaltic received the title of Airline of the Year 2009/2010 (Gold Award) from the European Regions Airline Association. airBaltic is the winner of Air Transport World Phoenix Award 2010 – a global recognition of excellence in restructuring business.