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Dec 01, 2011 (newstodate): Protesting against the introduction of security charges at Latvia's Riga Airport, Ryanair will reportedly cut its traffic by up to 30 percent and abandon plans to set up Riga Airport as a regional base.
The carrier will cut traffic by scaling down frequencies on a number of routes served and does not preclude axing some of the destinations now served from Riga Airport.
Ryanair currently operates flights from Riga Airport to Bremen, Bristol, Brussels, Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool, London, Milan, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm, and Tampere, and earliger announced plans to launch flights from March 27, 2012, between Riga Airport and its new base at Karlsruhe Baden-Baden, in Germany.
The carrier will cut traffic by scaling down frequencies on a number of routes served and does not preclude axing some of the destinations now served from Riga Airport.
Ryanair currently operates flights from Riga Airport to Bremen, Bristol, Brussels, Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool, London, Milan, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm, and Tampere, and earliger announced plans to launch flights from March 27, 2012, between Riga Airport and its new base at Karlsruhe Baden-Baden, in Germany.