airBaltic has announced theย Airbus A220-300ย aircraft is now certified to operate up to 149 seats, the companyโs fleet is undergoing gradual change in cabin configuration, unblocking additional seats that couldnโt be used previously.
As of April 5, the company has changed the cabin configuration for the first five ofย airBalticโsย 33ย Airbus A220-300ย aircraft.ย airBalticย plans to unblock the additional seats on its entire fleet by summer 2023. Due to different seat configuration, first 20 aircraft will have 148 seats available, while the next 12 aircraft will have 149 seats. All aircraft to be delivered between 2022 and early 2024 are planned to have 148 seats.
Since May 2020,ย airBalticย operates all its flights with a single aircraft type โย Airbus A220-300, thus minimizing the complexity and benefiting from the additional efficiency provided by the aircraft.
Theย Airbus A220-300ย has performed beyond the companyโs expectations, delivering better overall performance, fuel efficiency and convenience for both passengers and the staff. This aircraft offers an excellent flying experience with such benefits for passengers as wider seats, larger windows, more hand luggage space in the cabin, improved lavatories and much more.
Theย Airbus A220-300ย has a high-quality air filtering system equipped with High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) type filter that provides the best level of filtration currently available for recirculated cabin air from the very beginning of boarding, during entire flight and until all passengers have left the aircraft. The quality of cabin air is carefully controlled and is recirculated with ventilation rates that provide a total change of air 20-30 times per hour.
In addition, the new aircraft is also considerably quieter โ with a 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 CO2ย and NOXย emissions by 20% and 50% respectively.
In other news, airBaltic has announced that to support the President of the Republic of Latvia Egils Levitsโ visit to Moldova and deliver a humanitarian relief cargo to the Ukrainian refugee center in Chisinau, the airline will perform a special flight to and from Chisinau, Moldova on April 7, 2022. On the return flight from Moldova to Riga airBaltic will carry Ukrainian refugees together with the delegation of the President of Latvia.
The airline is celebrating 20 years of operating the Riga – Vienna route.
Top Copyright Photo: airBaltic Airbus A220-300 (Bombardier CS300 – BD-500-1A11) YL-AAP (msn 55051) SZG (Gunter Mayer). Image: 957237.
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