1 NEW AIRCRAFT; 3 NEW ROUTES AND MORE FLIGHTS ON POPULAR ROUTES
RIGA, Latvia, 2014-8-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced further expansion in Riga. The airline will deploy a second Airbus A320 aircraft at Riga Airport from 22 April 2015 adding 3 new services: Hamburg Lübeck, Stavanger and Liverpool will be operated twice weekly, each. The airline has also increased frequencies on some of its most popular routes in the summer 2015 season. The London Luton service will be operated 11 times per week, while the service to Doncaster Sheffield will increase to 3 weekly flights also from 22 April 2015.
With these 3 new services Wizz Air is now offering a total of 11 routes to 6 countries from Riga.
Seats on Wizz Air’s newest Riga routes as well as the entire summer 2015 schedule are already on sale and can be booked from EUR 19.99 (including taxes and non-optional charges) on wizzair.com.
WIZZ AIR’S NEWEST RIGA ROUTES:
| New route | Days | Starting date | Fares from** |
| Hamburg Lübeck | Wed; Sun | 22 April 2015 | EUR 19.99 |
| Stavanger | Wed; Sun | 22 April 2015 | EUR 24.99 |
| Liverpool | Mon; Fri | 24 April 2015 | EUR 29.99 |
WIZZ AIR’S FREQUENCY INCREASES ON EXISTING RIGA ROUTES FROM 22 APRIL 2015:
| Destination | Weekly flights |
| London Luton | From 7 to 11 |
| Doncaster / Sheffield | From 2 to 3 |
György Abrán, Wizz Air’s Chief Commercial Officer, said: “Today’s announcement is great news for Latvia. By doubling our fleet in Riga, so soon after the base opening, we will create more travel opportunities, more local jobs and hope to stimulate local tourism. With the three new services we now offer a total of 11 international routes. We hope that our new routes and increased capacity on some existing routes will be welcomed by consumers and benefit the tourism and aviation sectors as we bring more low fares to Latvia.”
Chairman of the Board at RIGA International Airport Aldis Mūrnieks said:“We are very grateful to Wizz Air for high appreciation of our mutual cooperation by opening an operating base at Riga Airport that has in such a short period of time resulted in basing a secondaircraft.”
*Source: Innovata, on the basis of scheduled departing seat capacity for the year ended 31 March 2014(“FY 2014”) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a region comprised of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
**One way price including taxes, non-optional charges and one small cabin bag