airBaltic has announced two route developments: it will be the first carrier to link Riga with Umeå in Sweden and will shortly be revealing plans to open a Vilnius-London service.

The new Swedish destination will be served from March 29th.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBalti said: "airBaltic has worked hard to expand its list of destinations in Scandinavia and the two cities that have been nominated to become Europe’s cultural capitals in 2014. We also want to allow people from the region to visit Latvia or to use Riga as a transit airport for flights to destinations such as Barcelona, Berlin, Zurich, Venice, Vienna, Moscow or Kaliningrad."