(Riga, Latvian): “Nervous. Not at all.” Martin Gauss, CEO, president and Chairman of the Board, airBaltic is in no doubt that an investment of about 1.6 billion US Dollars are exactly right for airBaltic with headquartered in Riga, Latvian. AirBaltic have bought 20 Bombardier CS300 for a price of around 80 million US Dollars per. plane. The new aircraft seating 145 passengers will strengthen airBaltic in the future. AirBaltic is the launch operator for the CS300 aircraft. “Currently, airBaltic have about 3 million. passengers. The goal within the next five years is to get four mio passengers,”said Martin Gauss to TTO Scandinavia, when 2,000 invited guests in Riga, Latvian, helped to offer the world’s first Bombardier CS 300 welcome as airBaltic next-generation aircraft. Air Baltic will start Bombardier CS300 commercial operations on December 14, 2016 on its route linking Riga with Amsterdam. Then CS 300 will fly to Tallinn, Vilnius, Munich, Paris, London, Stockholm, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Barcelona and eventually Oslo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen.
“CS300 is a great aircraft and a great improvement for our customers. We are delighted to announce that the historic first airBaltic commercial flight with Bombardier CS300 will link Riga with Amsterdam.
The new CS300 aircraft, offers excellent flying experience with such benefits for passengers as wider seats, larger windows, more hand luggage space in the cabin, improved lavatories and other. New aircraft is also much quieter – with four times smaller noise footprint. Moreover, at the moment, it is the greenest commercial aircraft in the world, as it is the first aircraft to have a transparent declaration of the life-cycle environmental impact, helping to reduce CO2 and NOX emissions by 20% and 50% respectively,” said Martin Gauss.
“AirBaltic is flying direct from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn. Will airBaltic fly to and from other cities in Scandinavia? ” “I cannot say, because we have competition. But we will fly more in Scandinavia in the future.” “Do airBaltic have plans to buy other airlines?” “When that happens, we will tell about it,” said Martin Gauss.
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