30.04.2021 - 23:09 UTC
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int'l) will base two aircraft in Riga from October 2021, resulting in 16 new international routes across Europe for the Latvian capital.
These will include the following new routes:
- 5x weekly to Warsaw Modlin (Poland);
- 4x weekly to Oslo Torp (Norway);
- 3x weekly to each of Aarhus (Denmark), Budapest (Hungary), Gothenburg Landvetter
(Sweden), and Rome Ciampino (Italy);
- 2x weekly to each of Bristol Int'l (UK), Kraków (Poland), Kyiv Boryspil and Lviv
(Ukraine), Malaga (Spain), Memmingen (Germany), Palermo (Italy), Paris Beauvais (France), Frankfurt Hahn (Germany), and Venice Treviso (Italy).
In total, Ryanair will plough USD200 million into the base which will operate 30 routes from Riga representing 95 departures per week. It will create 60 direct jobs while contributing to the economic recovery of the region, the airline said in a statement.
The new services will be a significant boost to Ryanair's capacity at Riga, which currently sits at 3.66% out of the...
26.04.2021 - 13:34 UTC
airBaltic (BT, Riga) will build what it called the largest dedicated air cargo handling facility in the Baltics, having signed a land reservation agreement with Riga Airport for a new Baltic Cargo Hub, the Latvian flag carrier announced in a statement on April 22.
The 96.14%-state-owned airline was the winner of a tender the airport issued in November 2020, to lease the land and construct a multimodal logistics centre. According to initial plans, the size of the Baltic Cargo Hub will be 6,000 square metres.
Construction on the hangar is scheduled to begin in late 2022 for completion by early 2024, and the project will be “financed through banks and operated by Baltijas Kravu centrs SIA,” a cargo handling subsidiary of airBaltic, the carrier said.
“For years, airBaltic Cargo has provided essential mail and cargo shipments to and from Latvia using its existing hangar. However, the hangar will be demolished to make room for the Rail Baltica tracks,” airBaltic CEO Martin Gauss explained, referring to an ongoing railway infrastructure project to link Finland...
12.04.2021 - 12:31 UTC
Nigerian startup Cally Air (Calabar) has taken delivery of its first aircraft, a B737-300 bought from Magnetic Leasing, to be based out of Calabar, with a second B737-300 on order.
5N-BYR (msn 29266) was delivered to Lagos on April 6, 2021, after it was ferried from Tallinn Lennart Meri via Malta Int'l to Nigeria, according to FlightRadar24 ADS-B data.
The 22-year-old jet is the first of two former airBaltic (BT, Riga) B737-300s secured from Magnetic Leasing by the nascent airline, which is a public-private partnership (PPP) between the Nigerian state of Cross River and Dana Air (9J, Lagos) in a bid to boost tourism to the state bordering Cameroon and the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Aero Contractors (N2, Lagos) is the actual carrier that will operate the aircraft for Cally Air, however.
Configured with 144 all-economy seating, 5N-BYR previously flew with airBaltic (BT, Riga) as YL-BBR from March 31, 2009, to June 30, 2020, whereafter it was stored, the ch-aviation...
25.01.2021 - 07:53 UTC
airBaltic (BT, Riga) plans to build a new hangar at Riga to maintain its fleet of twenty-five A220-300s, the airline announced.
Construction of the hangar is to start in 2022 and finish by the end of 2023, following a building rights agreement with Riga Airport signed in 2020.
According to initial plans, the portion of land earmarked for construction is 2.85 hectares. The hangar will span over 34,500 square metres. It will be able to provide simultaneous line- and base maintenance for seven A220-300s, and its services will be offered to other A220-300 operators. The project will be financed through commercial banks, according to a statement by the airline.
Owned 96.14% by the Latvian state with 3.86% by Lars Thuesen through his wholly-owned Aircraft Leasing 1 SIA, airBaltic was the launch customer of the A220-300. It owns eight of the aircraft, while seventeen are on lease, from amongst others, Avation,FPG Amentum, Chorus Aviation Capital, and CMB Financial Leasing.
In 2019, it was certified to provide...
