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Baltic air wars intensify

Oct 29, 2008
By Dorian Ziedonis

ESCALATION: Lithuania’s national airline was forced to hand tens of thousands of euros over to Riga airport as the conflict between the two massive Baltic companies intensified.
RIGA - Lithuania’s flagship carrier FlyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines was forced to pay up on Oct. 27 accumulated debts of 40,000 euros to secure the release of one of its planes impounded the previous day at Riga’s international airport. The aircraft’s seizure left three passengers stranded on FlyLAL’s final flight of the summer season back to Vilnius. This tit-for-tat series of retaliations started with FlyLAL claiming sustained damages of close to 200 million litas (58 million euros) due to an all ...


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