Vilnius Airport

Owners of hotels in the Lithuanian capital say that Vilnius Airport has failed to sufficiently inform foreign market participants about its planned 35-day closure for runway reconstruction this summer, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Tuesday.

Over 300 tourists from Lithuania left for Turkey on Saturday despite reports of a coup attempt in the country. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A range international carriers are opening new routes are from airports around Lithuania in June, with Vilnius and Palanga seeing three new airlines operating from their airports

A flight from Vilnius airport to Barcelona had to be delayed due to the plane colliding with a bird.

An event at Charleroi Airport in Belgium last week inaugurated the month of tourism opportunities in Lithuania.

Lithuanian Airports is to invest €5 million in expanding the passenger terminal at Vilnius Airport to increase its capacity to five million passengers from the current four million capacity.

Ryanair has said that the new system for managing all of Lithuania‘s airports under one authority is boosting Vilnius airport at the expense of other regional airports like Kaunas.

Some of the world’s largest airport operators are interested in managing Lithuania’s airports, with global players including Ferrovial and Vinci Group expressing interest in the airports concession.

Lithuania is seeking private companies to compete for a concession deal to run the country's three international airports but aviation experts warn that the highest bidder might not be the right choice.

The Lithuanian government has distributed €1 million among foreign airlines in order to add new routes and make the country more accessible by air. While state subsidies are a common measure of promoting incoming tourism, critics say additional flights will mostly serve Lithuanian migrant workers.

Vilnius International Airport is celebrating its 100-year anniversary in December this year.

Passenger numbers increased by 13% at Vilnius Airport in 2015 to a record three million travellers – the best performance in the history of the airport.

The government has approved the bill on the Lithuanian airports concession, which is expected to boost competitiveness of Lithuania's air transport system.

Direct air transport effect on Lithuania‘s economy in 2013 reached 86 million euro, or 0.25 percent of GDP. However, it is only the tip of the iceberg, since the total sum of direct, indirect, induced effects and the broader economic benefits from air transport effect in Lithuania would be 870 milli...