BA turns Riga flights to Heathrow
As of March 1, all Riga-London flights will be landing at Heathrow, BA announced today. I don't have a problem with that, but most BA-GB flights for "fun in the sun" flights originate in Gatwick.
The shuttle-bus connection between the two airports is quite expensive and BA only pays for it if you're on a long-haul flight. I don't know how BA is going to compensate for this.
Just yesterday, Ryan Air announced that they were soon ready to move into the Baltics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Meanwhile, Britania is taking a large number of tourists out of Stockholm on charters. A Riga-Stockholm ferry ticket costs about $90 round trip.
I don't know, but unless all the southern European BA flights are changed to Heathrow, it's going to be a big drop in customers from Riga, except those that actually want to go to London. Last year BA reported 57,600 fare paying passengers on the RIX-LGW run.