OREANDA-NEWS. April 18, 2011. On Monday, Latvian national airline airBaltic will start the first of this summer’s new routes from Riga to Gdansk, Poland. The new route of airBaltic will offer excellent transit connections via North Hub Riga to destinations in Scandinavia, Russia, the CIS and the Middle East.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer: “Riga - Gdansk is the first of our new routes for the summer. The new route will offer convenient transit connections for tourists and business people to via Riga to destinations in Scandinavia, Russia, the CIS and the Middle East. On the other hand, the new route will attract more travellers to the seaside city in Northern Poland.”

Starting from April 18, airBaltic will fly from Riga to Gdansk four times a week – Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Passengers will board a Fokker 50 aircraft for a flight that will last for 1 hour and 20 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at EUR 39, including airport fees and transaction costs. A full schedule of flights is available on the company’s homepage – www.airbaltic.com.

airBaltic will offer four new routes this summer linking North Hub Riga with Gdansk, Bari and Budapest, as well as a link between Finland’s Oulu and Norway’s Tromso. A number of seasonal destinations are returning to the route map as summer draws closer; they include Nice, Tromso, Belgrade, Madrid, Baku, Dushanbe, Visby, Yerevan, Simferopol, Odessa.

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.