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Apr 29, 2024 (newstodate): This summer will see traffic at Latvia's Riga Airport lifting to new heights and reaching traffic to 105 destinations.
   The airport expects to see the number of regular and charter flights increasing by five percent compared to last summer, with airlines operating up to 1,200 weekly passenger flights.
   Topping the list of airlines operating new routes at Riga Airport in summer '24 is airBaltic launching  flights to Ljubljana this past weekend, and to Tirana, Sofia, Skopje, Chisinau and Pristina by the first week of May.
   airBaltic will thus increase traffic by 16 departing flights per week, mainly to new destinations.
   Opening its new base at Riga Airport this summer, Norwegian will expand its network of direct flight routes from Riga Airport; in addition to the already popular flights to Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Trondheim, the airline will offer direct flights to the leisure destinations of Tivat and Corfu.
   British Airways will also continue flights between Riga and Heathrow Airport in London in the summer, and Ryanair will double the number of flights on the Riga–Stockholm route this summer from six to 12 flights per week and will also increase the frequency of flights to Dublin, Krakow and Rome.  
   Uzbekistan Airways will increase frequency from three to four flights weekly between Riga and Tashkent, and the number of flights operated by the Polish airline LOT from Riga to Warsaw will also increase by two to 16 rotations per week).
   Finally, Lufthansa will offer 16 flights between Riga and Frankfurt instead of the previous 14 flights.