Flight Consulting Group, the Latvian business aviation holding, is proceeding to the final construction stage of the new state-of-art FBO RIGA Business Aviation Center at Riga International Airport.

The new business aviation center will meet the highest safety and quality standards and will be one of the biggest FBO facilities in EU and the Baltics. The grand opening is set for August 2015.

The Center comprises a state-of-art business passenger Terminal (1 200 sq.m) and a heated hangar (8 400 sq.m) with offices, separate storage and workshops areas. The hangar specially designed for aircraft parking has the capacity up to five Boeing Business Jets or nine Gulfstream-550s. Flight Consulting Group is also planning to launch MRO services including aircraft cleaning at the new FBO facility.

The FBO RIGA terminal will meet the highest standards of passenger handling as well as used for international meetings, presentations and VIP events. There will be six comfortable sitting areas, two fully equipped VIP conference rooms, a lounge bar and a multi-brand boutique in the terminal. Concierge service and luxury transfers are also at passengers’ disposal. The ramp and helicopter pad are located just at 10 m from the terminal. A special area for crew will also be available in the terminal building.

Roman Starkov and Leonid Gorodnitski - owners of Flight Consulting Group - commented:

"Flight Consulting Group is successfully operating over 15 years and has established itself as a reliable partner providing an outstanding quality of one-stop-shop solutions for business aviation. Latvia has advantageous location for Russia, CIS and Europe, and the construction of FBO RIGA Business Aviation Center is primarily motivated by the needs of our customers and a stable growth of business aviation traffic in the region. With the new FBO RIGA center we will further improve the quality of passenger services as well as provide our customers with even more flexible solutions for aircraft parking and ground handling.”