airBaltic (BT, Riga) has announced that it will cancel about 5% of all its flights currently planned for 2025, including suspending 19 routes altogether and reducing frequencies on 21 other routes due to the Pratt & Whitney engine maintenance delays that will force the company to ground several of its A220-300 aircraft in 2025.
The company will cancel ten routes out of its main base in Riga, including flights to:
- Aberdeen Dyce,
- Belgrade Nikola Tesla,
- Cluj-Napoca,
- Yerevan,
- Gothenburg Landvetter,
- Mykonos,
- Pristina,
- Rzeszow Jasionka,
- Skopje, and
- Stavanger.
airBaltic will also cut routes from Vilnius to:
- Dubrovnik,
- Ibiza,
- Rhodes International,
- Chisinau International,
- Tel Aviv Ben Gurion, and
- Valencia Manises.
The airline will also suspend services from Tallinn to Dubrovnik and Hamburg Helmut Schmidt, and from Tampere to Rhodes. In total, the airline will reduce its Summer 2025 schedule by 4,670 flights.
The ch-aviation fleets module shows airBaltic has a fleet of forty-nine A220-300s, of which fourteen are currently inactive. The airline's spokesperson refused to give a number when asked about how many aircraft will be on the ground throughout 2025. "It is currently highly variable and may vary even over a short period of time," she said.
Only just over half of airBaltic's A220-300s will be available for the airline to run its in-house flights in 2025, as it has already pledged 21 to Lufthansa Group under a long-term strategic ACMI partnership.
