OSLO – Latvian airline airBaltic (BT), has announced their flight schedule for summer of 2023. With 18 new routes offered, this becomes the largest number of routes announced by the carrier.

Largest number of routes announced

As airBaltic prepares for the summer 2023 season, new routes are being announced. The 2023 schedule is no exception as it marks itself as the biggest in terms of routes announced.

The summer 2023 schedule for airBaltic will contain flights to 70 destinations from Riga (RIX), and to the 18 new routes from across the baltics. Ten routes will originate from Riga (RIX), four from Tallinn (TLL) and four from Vilnius (VNO).

The summer program will start at the end of March 2023, with the new flights being:

• From Riga (RIX)
  • Istanbul (IST) – 4 flights weekly
  • Hannover (HAJ) – 2 flights weekly
  • Bucharest (OTP) – 3 flights weekly
  • Porto (OPO) – 2 flights weekly
  • Burgas (BOJ) – 2 flights weekly
  • Bilbao (BIO) – 2 flights weekly
  • Tivat (TIV) – 2 flights weekly
  • Yerevan (EVN) – 2 flights weekly
  • Belgrade (BEG) – 2 flights weekly
  • Baku (GYD) – 2 flights weekly

• From Tallinn (TLL)
  • Split (SPU) – 2 flights weekly
  • Rhodes (RHO) – 2 flights weekly
  • Dubrovnik (DBV) – 2 flights weekly
  • Heraklion (HER) – 2 flights weekly
• From Vilnius (VNO)
  • Malaga (AGP) – 2 flights weekly
  • Palma de Mallorca (PMI) – 2 flights weekly
  • Nice (NCE) – 2 flights weekly
  • Heraklion (HER) – 2 flights weekly

CEO of airBaltic, Martin Gauss, commented on the expansion, saying: “This is the largest number of new routes in a single season we have ever seen at airBaltic.”

“We continue to be committed to our home cities in the Baltics and improving connectivity to and from the region. We are glad to expand airBaltic offering for the next summer season both with new route additions and increased flight frequencies on our existing leisure and city break routes.”

airBaltic’s Winter Schedule for 2022 & 2023

Just one month ago, the carrier announced their Winter Schedule, which is set to start on October 31st and offers airBaltic customers connectivity to over 50 destinations from Riga (RIX). The Winter Schedule includes the airlines’ first dip into the African aviation market, as well as their second route to the Canary Islands of Spain.

airBaltic’s winter schedules carries a lot of good for those wanting to escape the cold, and is now carrying the airline’s first route to the continent of Africa, with flights to Marrakesh in Morocco.

On top of this, they will be adding a second route to Morocco’s neighbour island of Gran Canaria (LPA), with it’s service starting on November 1st, and the Marrakesh (RAK) service beginning just a day earlier, on October 31st. Customers will have a great amount of time to travel on these routes, as they both last until late March of 2023.

Overall

It seems airBaltic are readying up for both the coming winter and next summer, by offering great connectivity to those who want to escape the cold this year, and those who are up for an adventure next year.

With airBaltic’s Airbus A220-300 fleet, the longer distances won’t be an issue as these aircraft offer great passenger comfort, as well as them being economically friendly in the air.