Resilience, adaptiveness and collaboration vital for success in space (Studio)
Speakers at the Defence In Space Conference (DISC) 2025 highlighted the critical and evolving role of space in national security, defence and the global economy.
Continued passenger growth at airBaltic in February
airBaltic reports that it carried 186,512 passengers in February 2010, an increase of 27% compared with the same month in 2009, when it transported 147,425 passengers.
At its home base in Riga, airBaltics’s passenger numbers increased by 33% in February compared to the same period last year.
During the first two months of 2010, a total of 385,597 passengers were carried by the airline, up 29% on the first two months of 2009, when the total number of passengers was 324,622.
The airline’s load factor in February 2010 was 61%, down 1 percentage point from February 2009.
Despite bad weather conditions and transport-related strikes across Europe in February, airBaltic‘s 15-minute flight punctuality level was 86.6%.
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