“airBaltic“President and Chief Executive Officer Martins Gauss finished “Airbus The A220 “qualification course, which now enables him to perform the duties of pilot – in – command of this type, is evidenced by information disseminated by the airline.
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It states that Gauss was the first airline manager in the world to obtain an Airbus A220 rating.
Gauss’s professional career as’Boeing The 737 “pilot started in 1992 and has maintained his commercial pilot license all these years. The Airbus A220 type qualification training was conducted at the airBaltic Training Center in Riga and officially completed on October 1 this year.
As of May 2020, airBaltic operates all flights exclusively with Airbus A220-300 aircraft. This decision simplifies the maintenance of the fleet, as well as provides additional benefits from the efficiency of aircraft, informs the airline.
The performance of the Airbus A220-300 has exceeded the airline’s expectations by being able to demonstrate better overall performance, fuel economy and comfort for both passengers and staff.
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It recently became known that after regular tests on October 29, Gauss received a positive Covid-19 test result and went into quarantine.
airBaltic is a joint stock company founded in 1995. The main shareholder is the State of Latvia with 96.14% of shares, but Lars Tūsen with his wholly owned SIA “Aircraft Leasing 1” owns 3.86%.
If air traffic remains limited over the next year due to Covid-19, it may be necessary to return to the issue of providing additional funding to airBaltic at the end of 2021. Latvian Radio The Minister of Transport has spoken in the program “Krustpunkta” Tālis Linkaits (PUC).
The Minister explained that it is still unclear how the situation will develop in the future. If in the spring it seemed that the Covid-19 pandemic was a one-time event, after which the situation would return to normal, then in the summer forecasts for the second wave in the autumn appeared and the situation would return to normal after that. Currently, it is already forecasted that the situation with passenger air transportation can return to normal only in 2024, said Linkaits, reports LETA.
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