AirBaltic has announced that they will open direct Finland flights to and from the city of Oulu in northern Finland. This will turn Oulu into an "Arctic Gateway" for the Barents region, as the hub will likely be lined to seven other regional cities including Tromso, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. Oulu is the second busiest airport in Finland and will be substantially expanded over the next several years.
The new airBaltic hub at the airport in Oulu will be in operation beginning in 2012, and the flights with airBaltic from northern Norway, northern Russia and other airports in Finnish Lapland will likely be routed through the new hub. The first step in the Oulu hub development will be to link the four other airports in northern Finland, Kuusamo, Rovaniemmi, Kittila and Ivalo, with flights to Oulu.
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