The national flag carrier of Belarus, Belavia will launch a new non-stop scheduled service to the Latvian capital of Riga from Minsk from January 19th.

There will be a 3x weekly rotation and Belavia will codeshare on the route with Air Baltic, which itself operates a daily service from Riga to Minsk using B737 and Fokker 50 aircraft.

Belavia now operates a number of services into Europe with the following destinations served:

• Amsterdam - 3x weekly
• CDG (Paris) - 2x weekly
• Moscow DME -14x weekly
• Yerevan- 2x weekly
• Rome- 2x weekly
• Frankfurt - 2x weekly
• Baku- 2x weekly
• Kiev 6x weekly
• Kallingrad - 7x weekly
• St Petersburg- 4x weekly
• London Gatwick-3x weekly
• Milan MXP- 3x weekly
• Prague- 3x weekly
• Moscow SVO- 7x weekly

The existing passenger market between Riga and Minsk is relatively low, with 12000pax flying the route in the last reported 12 month period.