Tag: Vilnius Airport

Aspire Executive Lounges announces new lounge at Vilnius Airport

Aspire Executive Lounges has today announced it will open a new lounge at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania. The lounge will draw inspiration from contemporary Lithuanian aesthetics, including the Literatų Wall and mythical Amber Trail. It will also celebrate Vilnius’ identity as a European Gree...

BGS achieves 100% on-time performance for Wizz Air flights at Vilnius Airport

Baltic Ground Service (BGS) has achieved "exceptional operational excellence" in May by delivering a 100% on time performance for Wizz Air flights at Vilnius Airport. This result surpassed all planned KPIs and ranked Vilnius at the top of 60 stations in the Wizz Air network. Achieving 100% pun...

Winning design for Vilnius Airport’s new arrivals terminal announced

Lithuanian Airports (LTOU) has announced that the shortlist of the best architectural concepts for the new Vilnius Airport arrivals terminal has been finalized. A jury of international experts, consisting of airport representatives and renowned architects from Lithuania and abroad, selected five ...

SSP opens bakery brand Upper Crust at Vilnius Airport

SSP, a operator of restaurants, bars, cafes and other food and beverage outlets in travel locations worldwide, has opened a new Upper Crust as the first step of a major development project at Vilnius Airport. Located in the airport’s new Terminal 4, the bakery is the first of six outlets schedu...

Swiftair B737 crashes in Vilnius leaving one dead and three injured

Swiftair B737 crashes in Vilnius leaving one dead and three injured

One person has died and three have been left injured after a Swiftair cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport on Monday morning. Local authorities have said that the Boeing B737, operated for DHL by Swiftair, crashed near a house as it was on its final approach for landing, sending the aircraft ...

Statistics of Lithuanian Airports in July

In July this year, Lithuanian Airports almost reached the pre-pandemic total monthly passenger flow results - last month they managed to restore 97% of the same passenger flow in 2019. In July, more than 577,000 passengers travelled through the country's airports and 4,795 flights were handled. ...

Vilnius Airport welcomes its newest carrier as SWISS launches flights to Zurich

On Wednesday, March 30th, 2022, Switzerland’s largest air carrier SWISS have launched direct regular flights between Vilnius and Zurich. Flights will be performed twice weekly – on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This new route is of strategic importance for both Lithuanian Airports and the tourism...

Prototype electric passenger bus is being tested at Vilnius Airport

The prototype electric bus Dancer developed and manufactured in Lithuania is being tested for passenger transportation at Vilnius Airport. The prototype of a fully environmentally friendly vehicle, adapting the latest scientific discoveries, is being developed by a subsidiary of the Vėjo Projekt...

Reconstruction of Vilnius Airport aerodrome is nearing completion

The largest infrastructure reconstruction project in the history of Vilnius Airport, which has been intensively carried out for three years at Vilnius Airport aerodrome, is moving towards the end. The reconstruction is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The completion of all the...

New flight destinations launched at Lithuanian airports

Since the end of October, the number of direct and regular flights at Lithuanian airports has increased. As the intensive recovery of the aviation sector continues, it is planned that as many as eleven new destinations will be launched from Vilnius and Kaunas airports before the end of the year, ...

Vilnius Airport launches international public tender to construct new departures terminal

Vilnius Airport, which is a part of the Lithuanian Airport network, has launched an international public call for tenders as it begins looking for a contractor which will construct a new module of a passenger departures terminal in the northern part of the airport. After the construction of this ...

Lithuanian Airports announces tender for aviation fuel infrastructure lease

Lithuanian Airports are launching an international tender to lease the existing fuel storage facilities at Vilnius and Palanga airports for ten years to manage the existing infrastructure as efficiently as possible. According to Dainius Ciuplys, Head of the Operations and Infrastructure Departmen...

Vilnius Airport: Construction of new passenger departure terminal suspended

Lithuanian Airports and a construction company Mitnija agreed to terminate the contract for the construction of a new passenger departure terminal at Vilnius Airport. Such a decision was made because the financial challenges in the aviation sector due to the pandemic aggravated the search for the...

Safe travel becomes more convenient as Vilnius Airport opens Covid-19 testing site

From March 1, passengers travelling though Vilnius Airport will have the option of conveniently conducting the necessary Covid-19 test before or after the flight. Lithuanian laboratory “Rezus.lt” has opened a coronavirus testing site in the premises of Lithuania’s main air gateway. The provide...

Mitnija to build a new passenger departure terminal at Vilnius Airport

Mitnija, one of the largest construction companies in Lithuania, has won an almost EUR 25 million public tender to build a new 14,400 sq. m passenger terminal at Vilnius International Airport. The contract also includes transformation of another 34,000 sq. m of access areas. The project was commissi...

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