Baltic aviation ceo biography images

Previously, he served as Managing Director of Deutsche BA where he led the airline to profitability and was sold to Air Berlin in This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Joshua Kupietzky JK : What is your background in the aviation industry? Martin Gauss : I studied to be a pilot from until , and then I started my first position with British Airways subsidiary Deutsche BA in as a first officer.

Airbaltic vote

Following that, I did internal management training within British Airways over many years and reached the level of director. After the company [Deutsche BA] was sold, I became a managing director. JK: How do you view the main changes that have come about in the aviation sector because of the pandemic? For example, a lot of flyers think about change fees.

Many airlines have waived them. Do you think change fees are gone for good, and how would you adapt that part of your business if they were? MG : The pandemic had a big impact on us.

Airbaltic careers

We in other areas of the world struggled differently. Asia is still struggling, Europe is coming out of it, and the United States has come out of it. Charging change fees is a specific area of income for airlines. I see that they will stay because we have also come back to normal behavior of tickets and bookings. But of course, there are so many different airline models today in the world that different airlines do different things.

There are no change fees on tickets that are changeable all the time because, for example, classically, a business class ticket has no change fee.