In the first nine months of 2021, airBaltic exceeded one million passengers, said Martin Gauss, CEO of airBaltic, in an interview with LTV Morning Panorama.
Today, the airline industry in Europe has reached the 2019 level of 60%, Gauss said. And the second half of the year is much more successful. Also the number of passengers airport Riga” in August reached almost half of the pre-crisis level.
The overall situation in the industry is improving. “What we can see is the light at the end of the tunnel,” Gauss said.
The airBaltic chief considered the transport of one million passengers in the first nine months of the year to be quite impressive. However, this does not reach the pre-pandemic period.
Gauss, on the other hand, declined to predict what the whole year would be like in 2021, because it is not known how the amount of reservations will change in the next three months. Currently, the reservation is active, but not further than eight weeks.
After a temporary layoff, about 150 employees returned to the airline. In total, airBaltic plans to hire 320 pilots and flight crew specialists, who will start working next spring, but the training will start now.
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Latvian airline “airBaltic” group In the first six months of 2021 suffered a loss of EUR 61.5 million. This is three times less than the same period a year ago, informed the airline.
The government conceptually agreed in mid – August that the state will invest in the share capital of airBaltic up to 90 million euros to support the company’s work and compensate for the losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision has yet to be agreed with the European Commission (EC).
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