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Aug 08, 2017(newstodate): Latvia's Liepaja Airport has now been fully certified by the country's Civil Aviation Agency to perform year-round operations.
Following the completion of the long process of airport reconstruction works and certification, Liepaja Airport, 210 km west of Riga, was reopened for non-commercial aviation services from May 26, 2016, and fully open for regular commercial traffic from September 19 - but restricted to summer traffic only.
Now with year-round operations, the airport hopes to attract new carriers to offer flight services to Latvia's western region.
So far, the only carrier with scheduled flights at Liepaja Airport is airBaltic that returned domestic flights between Riga and Liepaja from May 16, 2017.
airBaltic first opened domestic flights from Riga to Liepaja in September, 2005, adding services from Liepaja to Hamburg and Copenhagen from May 9, 2007, even airing further plans for connections to Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki as well.
The flights from Liepaja to Copenhagen and Hamburg were continued until October 18, 2008, but flights on the domestic route from Liepaja to Riga were suspended after October 1, 2008, already.
Following the completion of the long process of airport reconstruction works and certification, Liepaja Airport, 210 km west of Riga, was reopened for non-commercial aviation services from May 26, 2016, and fully open for regular commercial traffic from September 19 - but restricted to summer traffic only.
Now with year-round operations, the airport hopes to attract new carriers to offer flight services to Latvia's western region.
So far, the only carrier with scheduled flights at Liepaja Airport is airBaltic that returned domestic flights between Riga and Liepaja from May 16, 2017.
airBaltic first opened domestic flights from Riga to Liepaja in September, 2005, adding services from Liepaja to Hamburg and Copenhagen from May 9, 2007, even airing further plans for connections to Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki as well.
The flights from Liepaja to Copenhagen and Hamburg were continued until October 18, 2008, but flights on the domestic route from Liepaja to Riga were suspended after October 1, 2008, already.