Tallinn Airport

The Air France-KLM Group LCC subsidiary Transavia France will fly out of Paris Orly to the the Estonian capital 2X-weekly from April 4, 2024.

Tallinn Airport in Estonia, which has announced seven new services and a new airline, Marabu, to satisfy demand, is seeking to strengthen its Middle East links.

Marabu Airlines plans to serve more than 20 leisure destinations from Munich and Hamburg.

The startup plans to fly between Germany and holiday destinations.

The carrier is the largest operator from London Luton and is also growing its Gatwick presence.

Flights to Agadir, Prague and Sharm El Sheikh are among the latest new route plans.

The airline is targeting further European route procurement contracts.

The LCC is planning a robust schedule from the Scottish capital during both the summer and winter seasons.

Eighteen routes to destinations in nine countries are being launched as part of the ULCC’s latest expansion in Italy.

The proposed codeshare covers an initial 24 routes from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

With airBaltic announcing that three new leisure destinations will be added to its network in July, we take a look at the Latvian carrier’s summer schedule.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

Riivo Tuvike also highlights leisure routes that were popular before the crisis but are currently unserved for 2021.

The flag-carriers of Iceland and Latvia have signed an agreement that opens new markets for both airlines.

Routes speaks to Aurimas Stikliūnas, the head of Aviation Services at Lithuanian Airports, about how the coronavirus crisis has affected Vilnius Airport (VNO) and what is being done to re-stimulate demand.

The LCC continues to grow despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wizz Air is to open a new base at Lviv in Ukraine and launch seven new routes from the country.

Latvian carrier airBaltic has announced further deep cuts to capacity over the next six months, as well as delaying the launch of all new routes planned for the summer 2020 season.

airBaltic is one of Europe’s fastest-growing carriers, with a stated goal of reaching 15 million passengers by 2025. Ahead of his keynote address at World Routes 2019, CEO Martin Gauss outlined its plans to develop a network which spans from its heartland in the Baltics to new airports and bases across Europe.

The new Tallinn - Edinburgh route will certainly stimulate demand in a market that currently see around 2,500 indirect passengers a year. However, when this city pair was previously served by low-cost carrier Ryanair on a three times weekly basis between January 2011 and the end of the summer, generating just under 30,000 annual passengers, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data.

Although it likely to be a couple of decades before the transport project is completed, subject to financial backing, a new high-speed connection between Helsinki’s Pasila station with Ulemiste station in Tallinn will impact travel dynamics between the two cities with single fares of around €36 (£26) being suggested in promotional literature.

airBaltic has an order for 13 CS300s, the first of which is due to arrive in the third quarter of 2016 and is understood to be considering converting options for a further seven aircraft. It plans to use the aircraft for a mix of short- and medium-haul flying, including its Riga – Abu Dhabi route which it serves in partnership with Etihad Airways.

During the past couple of days we have been in conversation with many delegates during Routes Silk Road in Tbilisi, Georgia and here are some of the snippets of information we picked up from our discussions.

Belarusian national carrier Belavia is planning to expand its network across Europe and is confident that the meetings it had scheduled at Routes