Belavia to Introduce Grodno – Kaliningrad Connection

Belarusian flag carrier Belavia is to inaugurate flights to the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad from Grodno, only its second scheduled link outside of the country’s capital, Minsk. The city is located on the Neman River and is close to the border with Lithuania and Poland. There are currently no scheduled links from the small airport. Belavia plans to operate two flights per week between June 21 and September 3, using a Bombardier CRJ200.

Belavia has also recently introduced a twice weekly seasonal link to Kaliningrad from Brest, a city close to the border with Poland at the confluence of the Western Bug and Mukhavets rivers, while it also offers ten flights per week from Minsk, a route on which it carried an estimated 23,000 O&D passengers in the past year.

The Belarusian carrier has also signed a codeshare arrangement with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, where the Dutch carrier’s ‘KL’ code will also appear on its own five times weekly flights between Minsk and Amsterdam. Under the terms of the deal these ‘KL’ coded flights are not for general sale and will only be available to connecting passengers flying via Amsterdam Schiphol.

Schedule:

B21941 GNA1745 – 1840KGD CRJ 26
B21942 KGD1605 – 1700GNA CRJ 26