Baltic Visitor

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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This afternoon the author of Bonjour l’Estonie posted an article on the British visitors brought to Estonia by cheap flights since October 2003. It starts off as mildly comical (indirectly comparing the British invasion to the 14th century arrival of the Teutonic Order), moves through being depressingly accurate (with its portrait of drunken Brits abroad) […]

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