Wizz Air, the largest budget airline in the Central and Eastern Europe, from 22 April is opening flights from Riga International Airport to Stavanger (Norway). Flights on the route Riga-Stavanger-Riga will take place twice a week - on Wednesdays and Sundays – on the aircraft Airbus A320.
The Latvian national carrier airBaltic also operates direct flights to Stavanger.
In honour of the first flight, a special cake was made and decorated with an oil derrick because Stavanger is considered to be the centre of the Norwegian oil industry and is often called “the Oil Capital”.
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The opening of the flight was attended by (from left): Liene Freivalde, Director of Aviation Services Department, Riga International Airport , and Arina Smelova, representative of Wizz Air .