LGB787
Aug 4 2009, 07:07 PM
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Anyone have any details on this?
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Aug 04, 2009 (AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) -- Baltia Air Lines Inc (OTCBB:BLTA) announced on Tuesday that it has signed a Letter of Intent for the purchase of one Boeing 747 aircraft. The carrier is based at Terminal 4 of New York's John F Kennedy International Airport. Baltia is a transatlantic airline that operates between major US cities and the capital cities of Eastern Europe, including Russia, Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus.
YZT580
Aug 5 2009, 04:05 AM
Of what earthly good is one example of an airplane to a company trying to operate a schedule. It would be prohibitively expensive to crew, maintain, schedule. My guess is they are either looking a several or this is someone's I heard it in the washroom from a reliable source story.
DAL767-400ER
Aug 5 2009, 01:54 PM
Details?
Well, Baltia Air Lines has been drying to get approval for 1-2 weekly 747 service between JFK and LED for at least the last 11 years. The news that "Baltia Air Lines has applied with the DOT..." was pretty much a standard news item that was guaranteed to reappear again and again, yet there never ANY news items aside from that, neither that they got DOT approval nor that the DOT rejected them.
And so this year, they finally got their approval and are now actually going ahead. Obviously, whether they will actually operate their first flight is another story, but so far they have already gotten further than in the past decade.