For the second year in a row Latvian airline airBaltic has been recognized by the web-based service provider ch-aviation as the winner of the Europe’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award 2022 with an average fleet age of 2.87 years.

Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic:

– We are glad that for the second year in a row we have been recognized as the airline with the most modern aircraft fleet in Europe. Since May 2020, we operate all of our flights with a single aircraft type – Airbus A220-300, thus minimizing the complexity and benefiting from the additional efficiency provided by the aircraft. This decision has also helped to ensure significant connectivity to and from the Baltics with the rest of the world, as well as opening new opportunities for expansion in other regions. We see the Airbus A220-300 as one of our main competitive advantages from which we benefit from today and in the future.”

The ch-aviation Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award recognises airline carriers worldwide for keeping their fleet young, modern and efficient. To acknowledge their accomplishments, ch-aviation has decided to award them with the recognition they deserve. To determine which airlines currently operate the youngest aircraft fleets, ch-aviation maintains an extensive aircraft fleet database consisting of more than 5 000 operators and more than 67 000 aircraft worldwide.

Since introduction of the first Airbus A220-300 aircraft in late 2016, airBaltic has carried over 7.1 million passengers on the aircraft. Thus far, most passengers have been carried to such destinations as Amsterdam, Paris, London, and Moscow. Airbus A220-300’s have completed over 86 000 flights and flown over 193 000 block hours.

Since May 2020, airBaltic operates all its flights with a single aircraft type – Airbus A220-300, thus minimizing the complexity and benefiting from the additional efficiency provided by the aircraft. Airbus A220-300 has performed beyond the company’s 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.

In addition, the new aircraft is also considerably quieter – 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 CO₂ and NO_X emissions by 20% and 50% respectively.