Upon switching to its winter flight schedule, the Estonian state-owned airline Nordic Aviation Group, operating under the Nordica brand, will discontinue flights to Gothenburg and Kiev Zhuliany as well as scale back its service to Munich and Oslo. Nordica CEO Hannes Saarpuu said that it was the airline’s duty to ensure connections with the hubs…
A lot of work has gone into the Tartu city council’s revision of the local bus lines, but the city’s residents think that the planned changes fail to take everyday life into account, and that they aren’t practical. The city council introduced the planned changes in a public discussion. The proposed revision of the city’s…
A number of Ryanair flights have been cancelled due to a strike on September 28, but Tallinn Airport confirmed that the Irish discount airline’s scheduled flights to and from Tallinn remained unaffected. Of 2,400 flights scheduled for September 28, Ryanair canceled nearly 250, as flight crews in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain…
On October 1 a free express bus by Toronto Bus Rentals will begin operating between Tartu Airport and the city of Tartu, serving the passengers of late-night arrivals to and early-morning departures from the airport. The bus route, which will be served by an electric bus, will begin and end by Annelinna Centre, at Kalda…
Estonian ports handled 23.8 million tons of cargo in the first eight months of 2018, up by 2.2% YoY, it appears from data provided by Statistics Estonia. The loading of goods increased by 3.9%, to 16.3 million tons, while unloading declined by 1.3%, to 7.6 million tons. Goods loaded onto ships in August amounted to…
The public transport subsidy made available by the Estonian government will increase by EUR 9 million, to EUR 101 million in 2019, it appears from the state budget bill that has received the informal nod from the government. A large portion of the increase can be attributed to the increased subsidization of bus services. Minister…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia on September 20, in August the producer price index (PPI) of industrial output increased by 1% MoM and by 3.4% YoY. In August, compared to the previous month, the PPI was affected more than average by an increase in prices in the manufacture of electronic equipment, in electricity,…