airBaltic

✅ Trip Verified | Cheap airline, will never use them again. Started weighing carry on baggage at the time it was time to board airplane. It leaves you no time and no option to take anything out of carry on bag, if it has overweight, because simply you have no place to leave your belongings. So you have no other choice than just pay 60 eur ,and check in your carry on bag. Usually other airlines check your carry on bag at the time you get tickets, so you can take anything out if you need to and put it into your check in luggage, but this airline does it at the boarding time, so they could make that extra 60 eur from you. There plenty of good airlines around, so stay away from airBaltic, if you have an option.

Not Verified | Riga to Gatwick. Never flying with Air Baltic again. Made a whole load of people check and weigh their luggage. I knew I was slightly over the weight (400g) so removed something from my bag and then put on my pocket. Partner had to remove things and add to my bag to make his fit though it was fine on the way out. Then they reweighed mine. Luckily ok. Absolute nightmare and they were charging people €60 a pop!

✅ Trip Verified | Athens to Hamburg via Riga. Red eye flight on A220-300, plane looks nice but noisy for such a modern plane. You could have slept from 4-6 in the morning but the noise was bothering you. Flight attendants were indifferent and unsmiling. They do not offer even a glass of water or coffee, you have to buy everything.

✅ Trip Verified | Riga to Tbilisi. My first flight with AirBatic went smoothly, but that was only 35mins. But a 3 hour flight was terrible. The plane was the hottest plane I have ever flown on. To the point it was making me feel physically sick. The cabin is a 2-3 layout. But the air con for the aisle seat on the three is non existent. I felt the seat were also uncomfy. True design of the seats is truly awful.

✅ Trip Verified | Tallin to Riga, this specific flight ran rather smoothly. As you would expect from a flight that is only 30mins. No problem with boarding. No real issue of note.

✅ Trip Verified | Gatwick to Riga. This airline is pleasantly surprising. The value of money wasn't bad but not great, this is the only route to Riga from Gatwick so the prices weren't the best but it's okay. Ground service wasn't much as a half-budget airline, but the crew does seem very nice. The seat is very comfortable as a modern aircraft with mood lighting and everything making the atmosphere nice with music and small TV screens showing flight progress as well as time etc. Food-wise, as this half-budget airline, of course, it has paid for meals. The value of them is considerably better if we compare it to say Ryanair or EasyJet. If you don't like to wait for your food to be reheated, don't buy the sweet and sour chicken with rice, yes it's good but if you don't like waiting, try avoiding it and buy something like a soup or a wrap, both of which my mum tried and enjoyed very much. The chicken and rice were on point! I'm quite biased as a Latvian myself but I'd recommend flying this airline.

✅ Trip Verified | Stuttgart to Riga. Bad service of the staff. I bought the tickets for my mother to visit me and due to her poor English language knowledge I reserved seat for extra cost so that I could print her tickets in advance. At Stuttgart airport flight 262 14:25 (terminal 3) my mothers tickets were initially not accepted and the entrance in the plane delayed. The staff did not support her on this until after all the other people had entered the plane. She was distressed and helpless. Eventually she was let on the flight and the seat I had booked was still for her available. I do not understand how this my so called priority booking for her turned out in such disaster of cancelled ticket that was not recognised by the crew.

✅ Trip Verified | Riga to Munich. Delayed by more than 30 min. Completely chaotic at the Riga airport at the gate. First, a gate change at boarding time was announced (as if the airline does not know before). Then before boarding started two very unpleasant air Baltic staff made people weight their carry on and make them pay in case carry on had overweight. But instead of putting it in the airplane belly, they let people bring their oversized and over weighted luggage into the completely full airplane. Obviously, there was again total chaos on the plane because of too little space. Although airplane seems to be ready, we did not board for mor than 30 min. I had the feeing they first want to check every carry on for oversize and weight. Staff on the plane was very unfriendly too. In total a very unpleasant flight. I cannot recommend!

✅ Trip Verified | Paris to Riga. I was expecting better service from Airbaltic since I paid more for business class. It turns out the service is worse than budget airlines. Worst airline ever I have taken. I had to remove and put the luggage onto the belt a few time and the ground staff made no attempt to help me with my heavy luggage. He sat and watched and kept commanding me to put the luggage onto the belt even after I asked nicely “would you please help me with the luggage”. After he told me that his name is Keith when I asked him, he turned to talked to his colleagues in French and they all started laughing. I know he was talking about me asking his name because I heard Keith in the conversation, which made me suspect that Keith is not his real name. The English proficiency of ground staff is very low. They spoke in broken English and couldn’t explain to me clearing. The manager thought that my English is not good and explained to me the whole situation again in writing. For info, English is the first language in Singapore. The staff made only me measure my hand carry and claimed that it’s oversized. I saw some other passengers hand carry luggage were clearly oversized too but they are allowed. They initially told me that I have to pay 55EUR for the extra luggage and then changed this to 60EUR when another manager was present and insisted that he told me that it was 55EUR. The air stewardess skipped me when serving the welcome drink and the menu. When I asked for them, she then checked my seat number. How is it that you do not even know who are your business class customers? I did not pay extra for business class for the above poor services. It is very unprofessional to treat your business class passengers with such poor services because she is Asian.

Not Verified | Tallinn to Milan. I was dreading flying with it. For a cause, I was forced to fly with it. Why so cheap? No normal beverages or food on the plane and then you have to pay 60 euros even if you've paid for your carry-on luggage? Why do you have to do it?