airBaltic Pilot Academy’s Third Group of Students Begin Studies

Already the third group of students began their study process at the Latvian airline’s airBaltic Pilot Academyon January 10, 2019.The third group of 11 students will become airBalticpilots upon completion of the full-time programme in less than two years from now.

Pauls Cālītis, airBalticSVP Flight Operations: “The students that received their first epaulettes today have passed the same meticulous application process all our pilots go through. Being the only pilot academy in the Baltic region that is linked to an airline, our students benefit greatly while learning from the first-hand experience of our professional instructors.”

“We launched our Pilot Academylast spring, and since then we have received four state-of-the-art Diamond Aircraftand a flight simulator, established training facilities at Liepāja Airport. Over 30 Baltic students are now on their way to fulfill their dreams and become commercial pilots,” P. Cālītis added.

The application process for the second 2019 spring group of airBaltic Pilot Academywill conclude on January 14, 2019. For more information and applications, please visit: http://pilotacademy.com.

airBalticserves over 70 destinations from Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, offering the largest variety of destinations and convenient connections via Riga to its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, the CIS and the Middle East. For summer 2019, airBalticwill launch new direct routes from Riga to Dublin, Stuttgart and Lviv. In addition, next summerairBaltichas introduced three new destinations from Tallinn to Malaga, Brussels and Copenhagen.