Europe / Latvia · Business & Economy

airBaltic to lay off 500-700 employees

Rank
Running: 14h
Updated: 12h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 4

Bloomberg United States · English 5 Oct, 12:25 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Lietuvių (2) · +2 languages

Read at Bloomberg

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: LRT, 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC.
Second country: Estonia, with Postimees.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC.
Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Europe 6 outlets · 3 countries · 86%

First movers

LRT 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC
Postimees +13m
TVNET +26m
Lrytas +29m
Bloomberg +40m

Latest arrivals

ERR 5 Oct, 14:40 UTC
LSM 5 Oct, 13:38 UTC
Bloomberg 5 Oct, 12:25 UTC
Lrytas 5 Oct, 12:14 UTC
TVNET 5 Oct, 12:11 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 3 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Europe 3: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian.
Timeline: Earliest article LRT, 5 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 14:40 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, Latvia. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.55, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

5 Oct 2026 144 5.51 7 4 7 4 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 12:00 UTC · Updated 14:40 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 5 Oct, 12:25 UTC
Air Baltic Restructuring Plan Puts 700 Jobs at Risk Across Hubs

Europe 6 outlets

ERR Estonia 5 Oct, 14:40 UTC
airBaltic planning up to 700 layoffs across Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius
LSM Latvia 5 Oct, 13:38 UTC
airBaltic getting ready for mass layoffs
Lrytas Lithuania 5 Oct, 12:14 UTC
Oro bendrovė žada atleisti kelis šimtus darbuotojų: paaiškino, kodėl to prireikė
TVNET Latvia 5 Oct, 12:11 UTC
"airBaltic" potenciāli varētu atlaist līdz 700 darbinieku
Postimees Estonia 5 Oct, 11:58 UTC
KARM KÄRBE ⟩ Air Baltic koondab 500-700 töötajat
LRT Lithuania 5 Oct, 11:45 UTC
„airBaltic“ rengiasi koreguoti darbuotojų skaičių: pokyčiai paveiks 500–700 darbo vietų