Air Baltic information
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Back in Riga just for holidays this time
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
I don’t get it, they’re advertising for DEC and experienced FOs for a fast track, but at the same time they will most likely go into reconstruction or bankruptcy… Is it that hard to fill the positions on the A220? If they go under it’s a pretty useless type rating to hold. Anyone who has applied recently and can shed some light?
AirBaltic stalls IPO until at least the first half of 2025
https://www.reuters.com/markets/airb...st-2024-12-02/
Last edited by zen krempie; 30th May 2025 at 20:48.
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From: Helsinki
Back in Riga just for holidays this time
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
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From: Germany
Martin Gauss, long-time CEO and chairman of Latvian airline airBaltic, has been dismissed, reports the Ministry of Transport on 7 April.
Following a shareholders' meeting at which the Transport Ministry called for a vote of no confidence in Gauss, airBaltic's Supervisory Board convened an extraordinary Supervisory Board meeting. In view of the shareholders' vote of no confidence, the Supervisory Board decided to dismiss the current Chairman of the Board, Martin Gauss, as of 7 April.
Following a shareholders' meeting at which the Transport Ministry called for a vote of no confidence in Gauss, airBaltic's Supervisory Board convened an extraordinary Supervisory Board meeting. In view of the shareholders' vote of no confidence, the Supervisory Board decided to dismiss the current Chairman of the Board, Martin Gauss, as of 7 April.
https://careers.ch-aviation.com/news...atvian-auditor
https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/153...-slips-to-2026
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From: EU
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From: Switzerland ... oh wait: Swaziland
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Not for long apparently.
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/l...e-in-airbaltic
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/l...e-in-airbaltic
What I understand is that LH gave to AB 14 millions for the wet leasing deal, that was branded as convertible shares but still AB is 97,5% Latvian State and 2,5% Aircraft Leasing Sia
Still they ask 250 millions from the Latvian state
When asked how much money is needed from the state, which has a 97% stake in the company, Martinovs said that it depends on the shareholder
Senior airBaltic official: company needs around 250 million euros
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/t...euros.a603554/
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From: EU
Back in Riga just for holidays this time
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
AB Cadets only?
Had a chat with a Captain who fell behind, he has hard time with pilots who got hired just having a CPL outside of Airbaltic Academy, like a French lady with 0 hours on turbo prop airplanes, just her CPL from France, while they are advertising only senior first officers positions
Same with some zero hours people who initially got hired as FI in the academy and very soon went to A220
A lot of back doors
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From: Helsinki
The French lady in question was hired initially as an office employee. She had her CPL from France and also had a well connected French friend who is a Captain and in few months from office jumped to cockpit
Same with some zero hours people who initially got hired as FI in the academy and very soon went to A220
A lot of back doors
Same with some zero hours people who initially got hired as FI in the academy and very soon went to A220
A lot of back doors
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From: EU
If you read some pages back you will see that they are only focused on favors, many posts regarding hiring people who don't even have the published initial requirements. Sim check is just a formality
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From: Germany
I apologize, but your discussion focuses only on money foreigners, non-EU. What about the FAA? Do you believe you fly aircraft while Brazilians and those from Botswana fly the piano? At the very least, try not to blame any nationality. It's important to be open-minded—it's as simple as that for me.
Fly Safe.
Fly Safe.
Here is the case of 2008 Mexico city Learjet crash
Pilot Martín Olíva and co-pilot Álvaro Sánchez were not certified to operate the Learjet 45. The investigation concluded that both pilots had received fraudulent certifications: Captain Olíva lied about the number of training flights he had made, and had issues on the few training flights he did complete, while Captain Sánchez lied about being a Learjet 45 instructor. Both men had taken advantage of a corrupt system to get false training documents and some unsigned Learjet 45 certification forms from their flight schools. These revelations led Mexican authorities to suspend the licences of both flight schools.
I don't think it worth to bring to Europe pilots like the guys above just for some companies to keep the salaries low
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From: Riga
Regular Open days for experienced pilots are organised now, a lot of questions are discussed during these https://careers.airbaltic.com/en/eve...rienced-pilots
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Maybe they will fund with the new ACMI deal they offer to Air Serbia or the ACMI to Uruguay that starts this winter
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From: Latvia
https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/159...from-airbaltic
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From: Latvia
They can collect it easily after the ACMI deal with Air Serbia.
Four Airbaltic A220s will be based in Belgrade, a Serbian court order is enough to confiscate them for depts
Don't forget that are no sanctions between Serbia and Russia, you can fly direct from Belgrade to Moscow with an Air Serbia flight
Four Airbaltic A220s will be based in Belgrade, a Serbian court order is enough to confiscate them for depts
Don't forget that are no sanctions between Serbia and Russia, you can fly direct from Belgrade to Moscow with an Air Serbia flight
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They can collect it easily after the ACMI deal with Air Serbia.
Four Airbaltic A220s will be based in Belgrade, a Serbian court order is enough to confiscate them for depts
Don't forget that are no sanctions between Serbia and Russia, you can fly direct from Belgrade to Moscow with an Air Serbia flight
Four Airbaltic A220s will be based in Belgrade, a Serbian court order is enough to confiscate them for depts
Don't forget that are no sanctions between Serbia and Russia, you can fly direct from Belgrade to Moscow with an Air Serbia flight