AIRBALTIC LAUNCHES NONSTOP FLIGHTS FROM RIGA TO TARTU
by Ozgur Tore

Focus on Travel News
Thursday, 02 July 2009

The Latvian national airline airBaltic is pleased to announce, that
tomorrow, July 3, the company will launch nonstop flights between Riga
and the second largest city in Estonia, Tartu, offering convenient
connections to destinations in Western Europe, Scandinavia, the CIS
and the Mediterranean region.

airBaltic will provide nonstop flights from Riga to Tartu four times a
week – on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flights will be
offered on Fokker 50 aircraft and will last 50 minutes. One-way ticket
prices start at LVL 29 (EURO 41), including airport and transaction
fees. The route schedule is available on the company’s homepage at

airBaltic Chief Commercial Officer Tero Taskila: "We are delighted
that airBaltic will write history as the first airline to offer
an international route from the Tartu airport. airBaltic is the
second biggest carrier in Estonia and we naturally want to offer
extra convenience for our customers in Tartu by opening this new
route. It means that people from Southern Estonia can travel via the
Riga airport to destinations such as Berlin, Zurich, Venice, Vienna,
Moscow, Tashkent, and others. Tartu is a beautiful destination and
the new airBaltic flight will attract more foreign travellers from
Western Europe, Scandinavia, Mediterranean region and CIS."

The new route offers very convenient transit connections through
Riga, to and from final destinations in Western Europe, the CIS,
Scandinavia and the Mediterranean region. In the summer of 2009,
airBaltic is offering 57 nonstop routes to Aalesund, Almaty, Athens,
Amsterdam, Baku, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Zurich,
Dublin, Dushanbe, Dusseldorf, Yerevan, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hannover,
Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Kaunas, Kiev, Copenhagen, Kishinev, Kuopio,
London, Linkoping, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Odessa, Oslo,
Oulu, Palanga, Paris, Pskov, Rome, St.Petersburg, Simferopol, Istanbul,
Stavanger, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tartu, Tashkent, Tampere, Tbilisi,
Tel Aviv, Tromso, Turku, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw and Geneva.

Tartu is the second biggest city in Estonia and the capital city
of the country’s southern region. It is seen as the intellectual
and cultural centre for Estonia. The University of Tartu is the
oldest and most distinguished institution of higher education in the
country. Among well-known tourism objects in Tartu are St John’s
Church, Dome Square, the University of Tartu Museum of Art (which
is the oldest art museum in Estonia), the British Park on Toomemagi
Hill, along with the cathedral that is one of the oldest architectural
monuments in the region.