Baltic Visitor

From today, passengers flying with a range of airlines – including Estonian Air, Czech Airlines, easyJet, SAS and others – will be required to check in at the new southern extension of Tallinn Airport. The extension includes nine new gates and will allow the airport to handle 2.3 million passengers per year, twice as many […]

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Tallinn airport has announced a drop of almost 10% in the landing taxes which it charges to airlines, effective from March 2008. It is as yet unclear whether these savings will be passed on to customers, although one side effect may be to make Tallinn more appealing to Ryanair.
The low cost airline had refused to […]

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Earlier in 2007 the Estonian Ministry for Economy and Communications said that Ryanair would be flying to their nation’s capital by the autumn. There’s still no sign of the aggressive price-cutting carrier in Tallinn, but the Baltic Times reports that representatives of the ministry held talks with the airline on 12 October, and there are […]

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In a new post on All About Latvia, Aleks tells a tale which should serve as a warning to tourists planning a bus journey from Riga to Ventspils. With no rail connection to the port city, there is no other transport option unless you have a car – but at least after reading Aleks’ story […]

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Standby News reports that the new Art Nouveau style tram, which started to take passengers just two weeks ago, has already been used by almost 1000 people. Running between the Central Market and Anatomical Theatre, the service has been criticized as being too expensive – tickets cost fifteen times the tariff for ordinary trams.
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A new tram service will launch in Riga on 24th June, transporting tourists in an Art Nouveau inspired ‘retro sightseeing streetcar’ between the Central Market and Anatomical Theatre (Kronvalda Boulevard 9). According to an article in Standby News, the tram journey will take 10 minutes if there is little traffic and will cost 3Ls (about […]

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Irish national airline Aer Lingus has now started flights between Vilnius and Dublin. Flights depart from the Irish capital on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons and return in the evenings.
According to Standby News:
About 1.5 million passengers flew to or from Vilnius in 2006, 16 percent more than 2005, which should rise to 1.6-1.7 million passengers […]

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Intercity bus operator Eurolines has announced that from 20th June it will run a daily bus service between the Latvian capital Riga and the Estonian town of Narva. The journey will take 7 hours each way:

Departing Narva 4am – Arriving Riga at 11am
Departing Riga 7pm - Arriving Narva 2am

Narva is the easternmost major settlement in […]

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Vandens Taxi, a new boat service launched today, will carry passengers from Klaipeda to the Curonian Spit resort of Nida in one hour. The seaside town has always been within reach of day-trips from Klaipeda, but in good weather the water taxi should be much more appealing than a 90 minute bus ride. Better yet […]

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