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airBaltic to fly from Sweden
From the end of this month, the popular Latvian carrier airBaltic starts offering a number of new routes to the capitol, including a direct transfer from Norrkoping in Sweden.
The announcement makes this the 47th route offered by the company with a further 10 planned for summer 08.
The CEO of airBaltic Bertolt Flick commented on the plans saying: "There is much demand for flights to Riga, both as a final destination and as a city from which transit flights to other important cities in the airBaltic network are available."
The new flights will depart on Wed/Fri/Sat every week and will take about 1:30 hours. All this just goes to show how despite its raucous stag party links, Riga is a tourist honey pot and is only getting more popular
This article was written for TravelSavvy Europe by Chris Hough. If you know of an interesting European travel related news story, please get in contact.
