Lithuanian airports to offer 74 routes this winter, six fewer than last year

Lithuanian airports will offer 74 scheduled and charter routes during the winter aviation season starting Sunday, six fewer than a year earlier, while increasing flight frequencies on 15 routes, the state-owned airport operator said Friday.

Vilnius Airport will serve 48 destinations, Kaunas Airport 15 and Palanga Airport six, according to Lithuanian Airports. In October last year, the company announced that more than 80 routes would operate across the three airports during the winter season.

“We welcome this winter season with important news for passengers – from a new route to Geneva to a wider choice of direct flights to European capitals, including Wizz Air flights to Berlin, which have already launched,” Gintarė Norvilaitė-Tautevičė, interim CEO of Lithuanian Airports, said.

“Furthermore, compared with last winter, flight frequencies will increase on 15 routes,” she added.

Flights to Warsaw and Helsinki will increase by an average of four per week. There will also be one additional weekly flight to Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Brussels. In December, flights to Reykjavik will increase to three per week.

Kaunas Airport will add two weekly flights to Edinburgh and one additional weekly service to each of London, Liverpool, Alicante and Stockholm. Flights from Palanga to Copenhagen will also become more frequent.

Passengers will be able to fly directly from Lithuania to three southern European destinations – Alicante and Malaga in Spain and Paphos in Cyprus.

From Vilnius, travellers will have direct flights to 20 European capitals this winter, two more than last season. Direct services to Prague and Reykjavik, launched during the summer, will continue through the winter.

Other destinations served from the capital will include Barcelona, Malaga, Malta, Larnaca in Cyprus, Dubai and Tenerife.

Starting in January, airBaltic will launch direct flights from Vilnius to Geneva, while Wizz Air will begin flights to Grenoble, France. Wizz Air’s service to Gdansk, Poland, launched in the summer, will also continue.

Norwegian will operate flights from Palanga to Bergen, Norway, during the Christmas period.

Charter flights from Vilnius are scheduled to Antalya, Turkey; Tenerife, Spain; and Hurghada, Egypt. Flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will operate from all three Lithuanian airports.