The Lithuanian tour operator, Join UP! Baltic, will move its charter flights to Egypt from Vilnius to Kaunas as of 17 December 2025 due to disruptions caused by smuggler balloons from Belarus, BNS reports. Lithuania’s airport operator, Lietuvos Oro Uostai (LTOU), said that the tour operator’s flights to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh would operate from…
Latvia’s SmartLynx Airlines has filed for insolvency, LETA reports. CEO Edvinas Demenius explained that SmartLynx had intended to implement a restructuring plan by 15 December 2025. However, “false and misleading information from various stakeholders” had led to the loss of aircraft and customer contracts, he said. SmartLynx has liabilities totalling around EUR 238mn, of which EUR…
Estonia’s harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) rose by 5.2% on year in September 2025, according to Statistics Estonia’s flash estimate, ERR reports. Compared to August 2025, prices fell by 1.2%. The monthly fall was mainly due to a drop in prices for food, non-alcoholic beverages, and fuel. The HICP takes into account spending by…
Latvia’s Riga International Airport (RIX) served more than 3.3 million passengers in the first half of 2025, which was 5% more than in the same period of 2024, LSM reported. The number of flights increased by 3% to 30,378. The airport’s cargo turnover rose by 9% to 9,194 tonnes.
The Estonian government has rejected an offer to buy shares in Latvia’s national air carrier, airBaltic, LSM reports. Estonia’s Infrastructure Minister, Kuldar Leis, explained that the decision was due to the fact that airBaltic’s change of management had not been completed and its financial situation remained problematic. He said that Estonia would not raise airport…
Foreign-registered ships made altogether 2,741 visits at Latvian ports in the first half of 2025, which was down 7.1% from 2,949 visits in the same period of 2024, according to data from the Maritime Administration of Latvia (LJA), LETA reports. Foreign ships entered the Freeport of Riga 1,293 times, the Port of Liepaja 616 times,…
Irish low-cost air carrier Ryanair has cancelled flights from the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to six destinations for the period from April to October 2025, BNS reports. During the summer season, the airline will not fly from Tallinn to Billund, Bergamo, Paphos, Rome, Treviso, and Vienna. Ryanair will continue to fly from Tallinn to Milan, however….
Lithuania’s three international airports served an all-time record of 6.6 million passengers in 2024, which was almost 10% more than in 2023, according to state-owned airport operator Lietuvos Oro Uostai (LTOU), Made in Vilnius reports. The previous record was in 2019, when LTOU’s passenger turnover was 6.5 million people. LTOU’s airports served more than 56,800…
Latvia’s national air carrier, airBaltic, has no plans to ask the government for more money, CEO Martin Gauss stated, LSM reports. Speaking in an interview with LTV, Gauss said that the company had to raise additional capital from international investors on the stock market instead. Earlier, Klavs Vasks, chairman of airBaltic’s supervisory board, surmised that…
