airBaltic adds three Poland–Gran Canaria routes for winter 2026/2027
airBaltic is expanding its winter 2026/2027 schedule with new flights from Poland to Gran Canaria. The carrier’s booking system already shows services from Warsaw, Katowice and Poznań, with the season running from late October 2026 to late March 2027.
For the Polish market, this is the most relevant part of the airline’s broader winter expansion. According to the information released by the carrier, airBaltic is also adding routes from Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Kuusamo, while strengthening its existing seasonal base in Gran Canaria and opening a new seasonal base in Tenerife. The routes are already on sale.
Flights from Warsaw, Katowice and Poznań
The Warsaw–Gran Canaria route is scheduled to start on October 25, 2026, with two weekly flights on Thursdays and Sundays. Departure from Warsaw is listed at 16:15, with arrival in Gran Canaria at 21:15. The return flight is scheduled to leave at 09:00 and land in Warsaw at 15:35. airBaltic’s booking pages also show fares already loaded for November 2026.
Katowice is due to join the network on November 2, 2026, also with two weekly rotations on Mondays and Thursdays. The outbound flight is scheduled at 5 hours 40 minutes, while the return sector is listed at 5 hours 15 minutes. Poznań is due to launch on the same day, with Monday and Friday operations and the season ending on March 26, 2027.
New routes from the Canary Islands and Kuusamo
Beyond the Polish additions, the carrier has announced new links from Gran Canaria to Liège, and from Tenerife to Liège, Palanga and Ljubljana. airBaltic’s official Tenerife sales page confirms that Palanga and Liège are already available for booking, alongside routes to Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn. The Gran Canaria page also shows services to Liège, Warsaw, Katowice and Poznań.
The winter schedule also includes weekend flights from Kuusamo in Finland to Berlin, Hamburg, Manchester and London Gatwick, plus a Riga–Kuusamo route. I could not verify those Kuusamo services in a separate publicly accessible airBaltic press release, but they were included in the source material provided for this assignment. Public airBaltic pages do confirm that the airline is selling new winter-season services for 2026/2027.
What it means for Poland
For travellers in Poland, airBaltic is building nonstop access to one of Europe’s strongest winter sun markets without routing traffic through Riga. From a market perspective, that puts the airline into a segment that blends leisure demand with bleisure traffic and longer winter stays.
The expansion also fits airBaltic’s wider use of seasonal bases outside its home market. The carrier’s public website currently refers to 80-plus destinations, while the source material refers to more than 130 routes from Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere and seasonal bases. Those figures can coexist because destinations and routes measure different parts of a network.
