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Sep 21, 2021 (newstodate): The Latvian carrier airBaltic will look forward to intensified competition from Ryanair with  the start of the coming winter schedule.
   Ryanair will be opening Riga Airport as a new base from October 31, 2021, initially allocating two Boeing 737-800 aircraft and opening 95 weekly flights to a total of 30 destinations including 16 new routes to Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and UK.
   Among the spree of coming new routes from Riga are three weekly flights  to Aarhus in Denmark, three to Gothenburg in Sweden, and four weekly flights to Torp Sandefjord in Norway.
   Ryanair first launched business at Riga Airport on October 31, 2004, with flights to and from London, Tampere and Frankfurt.   
   At the same time another LCC, Wizz Air is closing its base at Riga airport, allocating instead the aircraft to Vilnius, in Lithuania.
   Wizz Air launched flights at Riga Airport on March 13, 2010, as the second European LCC at Riga after Ryanair that started its operations in Latvia already on October 31, 2004.
   While closing the base at Riga, Wizz Air will however continue serving Latvia with flights connecting Riga with 10 destinations in Europe, including Dortmund, Eindhoven, Oslo and Stockholm, as well as several UK flights.  
   But flights on the route from Riga to Keflavik, in Iceland, will move to Vilnius from December 17, 2021.