The spat between Mr. Flick and the LV government now even made it into airliners.de.
Flick: I am airBaltic?s guarantee of stability :: The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics
Thanks for PPRUNE's search function, we do have a forum already for this:
http://www.pprune.org/nordic-forum/2...baltic-43.html
Which mentions this rather unflattering article:
Kampars: airBaltic is close to bankruptcy :: The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics
LT has since moved-on from BT (near-monopoly to VNO for a while) to FR and WZZ, but we do still remember how BT helped to kill-of the national carrier. FR recently cancelled SXF-EDI, so maybe the slot is free again :-) BT has surely lost a _lot_ of VNO-via-RIX business recently to FR and WZZ (i.e. me). And opening-up TXL-GVA (with Skyways) will not go down well with the local forces at BER (LH, AB, EZY). Interesting times !