Often, let’s face it, our responsible companies that do it [komandējumu] organized, not offered [visas iespējas].
I’m talking about Ryanair, for example, which sometimes has convenient flight times if it’s in Belgium,” says Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Inga Bērziņa (JV).
The resigned Minister of Foreign Affairs, Krišjānis Kariņš (JV) is the only one who has always flown in business class and used the VIP lounge twice. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains that the VIP hall was necessary to guarantee the arrival of the minister and the delegation to the flight, shortly before boarding.
Kariņš did not attend the plenary session of the Saeima this week, therefore “De Facto” failed to meet him to ask questions. But on April 15, in an interview with “Latvijas Radio” program “Krustpunkt”, he also touched on the issue of the choice of travel class, stating that he saw that not only prime ministers, but also foreign ministers used to fly on special flights.
“I boarded, I was assigned a seat, I sat down, I didn’t think or inquire about what class I was flying or not flying in. (..) In my experience, not only basically all prime ministers, but also foreign ministers fly on their government’s plane. They flew to me [Radoslavs] Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
He flew to America on that plane, parallel to the fact that the prime minister flew on another government plane. I recently had a meeting in Lithuania, where the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia flew to Vilnius and back on a special flight, the next day he had to fly to Japan, the flights just didn’t work out, he took the opportunity.”
