
The start of direct flights from Riga to the USA is limited by the absence of suitable airplanes, Laila Odinja, said in aninterview with LETA the Chairwoman of Riga airport Management Laila Odinja.She noted that the problem of the availability of airplanes exists widely, including that American carriers do not have enough
airplanes suitable for flights to Riga. At the same time Odinya added that today the present now on the market is a new generation of unfuselage airplanes of the A321XLR series Airbus A321XLR, that can travel, for example, from New York to Riga without landing, but only a few carriers have received them so far. She said, as soon as more of such airplanes are available,
the possibility of direct flights from Riga, as the current airlines are, having large airplanes to carry large numbers of passengers, are not even considering the possibility of flying to Riga. Answering to the question, whether any airline
has opened a base in Riga, Odinja said that recently the base in Riga was opened by Norwegian airline Norse, but it performs more administrative functions, and there have been no talks about the possibility of having airplanes and flying from Riga .
“However I think that in the future we will negotiate with this airline to have not only administrative staff based here. because they have airplanes that are suitable for flight to America and can follow intercontinental flights. We are working a lot on this direction, ” said Odinya.