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Jun 10, 2015 (newstodate): Starting from September 3, 2015, the Latvian carrier airBaltic will launch a number of direct non-stop flights from Lithuania's Vilnius Airport to European destinations.
Stepping in to fill the void left by Air Lituanica that folded its wings on May 22, 2015, Latvia's airBaltic was quick to move by announcing setting up six new routes from Vilnius, in addition to continuing flights on its two existing routes to Riga and Amsterdam launched on October 30, 2014.
The new routes from September 3, 2015, will connect Vilnius to Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw and Helsinki, and more destinations may be added successively.
It remains to be seen exactly how airBaltic will set up the operation, but from the start the focus will be on cost-efficiency and Vilnius will not - initially at least - be established as an operational base with allocated aircraft.
Until 2011, airBaltic was building up its own network of flights from Vilnius comprising flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Munich, Paris, Riga, Rome, Dublin, Hamburg, Stockholm and Oslo but retreated due to increased competition and a change of strategy.
Stepping in to fill the void left by Air Lituanica that folded its wings on May 22, 2015, Latvia's airBaltic was quick to move by announcing setting up six new routes from Vilnius, in addition to continuing flights on its two existing routes to Riga and Amsterdam launched on October 30, 2014.
The new routes from September 3, 2015, will connect Vilnius to Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw and Helsinki, and more destinations may be added successively.
It remains to be seen exactly how airBaltic will set up the operation, but from the start the focus will be on cost-efficiency and Vilnius will not - initially at least - be established as an operational base with allocated aircraft.
Until 2011, airBaltic was building up its own network of flights from Vilnius comprising flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Munich, Paris, Riga, Rome, Dublin, Hamburg, Stockholm and Oslo but retreated due to increased competition and a change of strategy.