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Feb 05, 2021 (newstodate): A glass half filled, or half empty? - the question is never solved by statistics alone...
   airBaltic reports the handling of a total of 7,500 tonnes of cargo in 2020 across its entire network, down from 14,829 tonnes in 2019.
   This is thus a decline by close to 50 percent, y-o-y, easily attributed to the negative impact from the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
   At the same time, the full-year volumes in 2020 were actually also 31 percent above the expectations outlined in spring 2020, when the revised company business plan, Destination 2025 CLEAN, was approved and a subsequent budget revision took place facing the airline's traffic coming to a virtual stand-still for 62 days.
   -The entire aviation industry faced numerous new challenges in 2020. In response to the Covid-19 crisis, we made a decision to strengthen our focus on cooperation with mail operators, expanding the trucking network to EU and beyond, and concluding new agreements with all-cargo operators, which complemented our heavily reduced flight network, says Iļja Seļiverstovs, airBaltic VP Cargo.