“This is a technical decision, because we also want to fly to so-called third countries outside the European Union (EU). We are basically thinking of flights to Kiev. That is why we need a company in Lithuania. There is no other reason for this decision,” said Gauss. , adding that the flights still have to be licensed.
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airBaltic’s Lithuanian branch was registered in early November and explained to airline BNS that airBatic wants to operate flights to eight destinations from Lithuania – Amsterdam, Berlin, Kiev, London, Munich, Oslo and Paris, as well as Riga this winter season.
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Information on the destination of the Lithuanian airport operator Lietuvos oroostasai shows that flights from Lithuania to non-EU and non-European Economic Area (EEA) countries can currently be flown to Belarus, Ukraine and Turkey, but flights to Israel are planned from January.
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The Latvian Center for Disease Prevention and Control, on the other hand, reviews the list of EU and EEA countries to which regular passenger services from Latvia are allowed on a weekly basis, but flights to countries on the European continent that are not part of this block are not allowed.
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It has already been reported that the airBaltic Group’s turnover in the first half of this year decreased by 63.6% to 78.713 million euros due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while the group’s losses increased almost seven times and amounted to 184.77 million euros. AirBaltic’s audited turnover last year was 503.281 million euros, which is 23.1% more than in 2018, but the company suffered a loss of 7.729 million euros compared to the profit a year earlier.
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The Latvian state owns 96.14% of the voting rights in the capital of airBaltic, but the financial investor, Danish businessman Lars Tussen, owns Aircraft Leasing 1 – 3.86%.
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