By media, that they let go around 200 employees by 1st of Nov.
Article in russian:
Mixnews.lv - 200
Google translation:
President and co-owner of national airline airBaltic, Bertolt Flick, sent a letter to all its employees with notice that in the near future to dismiss out of 200 employees.
"The current situation in the aviation industry and revision of management policies in the airline to reduce costs and preserve access to tickets for our clients," - according to information in a letter received by employees from Flick.
"We started with the fact that rejected the use of 10 aircraft Fokker50s of our fleet (34 total). Thus, after November 1, the number of aircraft will be reduced by one third, which means to coordinate the functions and the number of staff in each department of the airline" - writes flick.
This event will help keep the airline 30 million lats, written in the letter.
"However, the bad news is that 200 employees will continue to develop his career outside of our company. The restructuring will begin in September, and each employee will be carefully evaluated," - said Flick.
According to unofficial information, it will be laid off local employees of the airline.