There are discussions ongoing on how the reduced salary plan will be implemented. It was presented to the pilots as a "done deal" with the union , when this was not in fact the case.
The winter programme is reputedly much slimmed down, although the HR Dept was not made aware of this until the last moment ,and, continued recruiting to operate effectively most of the flights of the Summer programme. Then, along came the elections, and airBaltics 15th Birthday announcement on 1st Oct, "Happy Birthday" indeed, but for who?
I heard that current recruitment is indeed for next Spring, maybe even for airFlick rather than airBaltic, but, nobody that knows what is really happening is telling, and the rest of us are merely suspicious/mystified in = measure.