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Jun 20, 2024 (newstodate): Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's war on Ukraine, transfer traffic played a crucial role for Riga Airport and the Latvian carrier airBaltic.
Russia and Belarus were key markets for airBaltic, generating transfer traffic to and from European destinations. This came to a halt, and the focus has since been for airBaltic to increase in the point-to-point markets instead.
airBaltic is thus expanding in the ex-Yugoslav markets with the launch of year-round flights from Riga to Ljubljana, followed by seasonal flights from Riga to Skopje and Pristina.
Already in summer 2023, airBaltic launched seasonal flights from Riga to Belgrade and Tivat, as well as from Tallinn to Dubrovnik and Split, and these flights have now been resumed.
However, it is not all plain sailing; airBaltic has for the second time cut short the program for seasonal flights between Riga and Pristina, Kosovo, launched on May 4, 2024.
Earlier slated to run till September 28, the operations were first announced to stop already on August 31, 2024, cutting roughly one month of services.
Now, airBaltic has again revised its schedule for its twice-weekly flights to Pristina to end already on August 17, 2024.
While no official comments have been made, lack of response in the market seem a plausible cause for the retreat, leaving little hope for a return of service in summer 2024.
Russia and Belarus were key markets for airBaltic, generating transfer traffic to and from European destinations. This came to a halt, and the focus has since been for airBaltic to increase in the point-to-point markets instead.
airBaltic is thus expanding in the ex-Yugoslav markets with the launch of year-round flights from Riga to Ljubljana, followed by seasonal flights from Riga to Skopje and Pristina.
Already in summer 2023, airBaltic launched seasonal flights from Riga to Belgrade and Tivat, as well as from Tallinn to Dubrovnik and Split, and these flights have now been resumed.
However, it is not all plain sailing; airBaltic has for the second time cut short the program for seasonal flights between Riga and Pristina, Kosovo, launched on May 4, 2024.
Earlier slated to run till September 28, the operations were first announced to stop already on August 31, 2024, cutting roughly one month of services.
Now, airBaltic has again revised its schedule for its twice-weekly flights to Pristina to end already on August 17, 2024.
While no official comments have been made, lack of response in the market seem a plausible cause for the retreat, leaving little hope for a return of service in summer 2024.