Railways are much more popular in Latvia than in Estonia and Lithuania, according to Eurostat data, LSM reports. Latvian railways carried 21.399 million passengers in 2025, which was up from 19.508 million in 2024. The number of rail passengers totalled 7.692 (7.944) million in Estonia and 5.398 (5.114) million in Lithuania, the lowest in the…
The Lithuanian government has introduced a 50% discount on domestic train tickets and will introduce a similar discount on intercity bus fares until the end of 2026, BNS reports. The purpose is to encourage the use of public transport amid the rise in fuel prices. Transport Minister Juras Taminskas said that the additional discount would…
Latvia’s Riga International Airport (RIX) served a total of 5.32 million passengers in the first nine months of 2026, which was as many as in the same period of 2025, LETA reported. Transit passengers accounted for 22% of the total, which was up from 20% a year earlier. Latvia’s national airline, airBaltic, accounted for 59%…
Latvia’s ailing national airline, airBaltic, recorded a loss of EUR 128.2mn in the first half of 2026, compared to a loss of just EUR 1.7mn in the same period of 2025, LETA reported. The aviation group’s revenues totalled EUR 399.2mn, which was up 14.2% from EUR 349.6mn in the first half of 2025. In the…
The Estonian state expects the state-owned airport operator, Tallinn Airport, to attract new airlines and to offer regular flights to at least 60 destinations by 2030, ERR reports. Tallinn Airport should serve 5 million passengers per year by 2030, according to the new guideline document signed by Infrastructure Minister Kuldar Leis. Tallinn Airport operates seven…
Lithuania is drawing up a contingency plan in the event that Latvia’s national airline, airBaltic, reduces flights or withdraws entirely from Lithuania, Transport Minister Juras Taminskas announced, BNS reports. Earlier, Latvian Finance Minister Maris Kucinskis said that airBaltic would likely need to reduce its operations. Taminskas said that a sudden suspension of airBaltic’s flights would…
Latvia’s Riga International Airport (RIX) posted an audited profit of EUR 4.2mn in 2025, which was up EUR 0.8mn from 2024, The Baltic Times reported. The airport’s annual net turnover totalled EUR 80.7mn, which was up 3.9% over a year. Revenue from aviation services amounted to EUR 47.3mn (up 5.4%) and from non-aviation services to…
Passenger traffic by land and sea transport increased in Latvia in 2025, according to the Central Statistical Bureau (CSP), LSM reported. The number of passengers on land transport totalled 192.4 million in 2025, which was up 0.6% from 191.2 million in 2024. The number of passengers on regular bus lines amounted to 97.6 million (down…
The Lithuanian Armed Forces (LGP) issued an air alert in the country’s capital, Vilnius, after a drone was sighted over Vilnius district, LRT reported. LGP activated the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission after radars detected the suspected drone within Belarusian territory. Lithuanian leaders, including President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene, as well as members…
