The last Sunday in March will mark the start of the new summer aviation season. This year, airlines will offer more than 80 direct regular routes to passengers at Lithuanian airports. The planned routes include destinations that are attractive to business travelers as well as European cities that are popular with holidaymakers for leisure and &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

It is planned to implement the most modern system of registered baggage management and checking in the Baltic States for Vilnius Airport in the second part of the year 2024. The system applied exclusively to the departure terminal of Vilnius Airport will allow increasing the flow of customers being serviced, automating the majority of safety &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

At the start of this year, intensive construction of the new passenger departure terminal at Vilnius Airport began. It is planned that the first passengers will depart from this terminal at the beginning of 2025. According to Kristina Greiciute, the head of Lithuanian Airports environmental protection projects, the new terminal will be the beginning of &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

LOT Polish Airlines will add four additional weekly scheduled flights between Vilnius and Warsaw from 28 March, following the current 28 weekly flights between the two capitals. Tickets for the existing and additional flights are already on sale on the airline&#8217;s official website. “This company is the company with the highest frequency of flights on a &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

In mid-February, construction work for the aircraft de-icing fluid recycling plant at Vilnius Airport began. According to representatives of Lithuanian Airports, the plant, which will be operational in the second half of this year, will enable the airport to carry out the necessary aircraft preparation procedures in a more advanced manner, which at the same &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

From the end of March, “Lufthansa”, one of Europe&#8217;s leading airlines, will operate direct scheduled flights with four of its group airlines for the first time in history at Vilnius Airport. “Lufthansa”, “Swiss”, “Austrian Airlines” and “Brussels Airlines”, all part of the German capital group, will fly passengers to four destinations. According to representatives of Lithuanian &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

In the first month of 2023, the rapid recovery of aviation continued, with Kaunas and Palanga airports already exceeding their pre-pandemic performance since the beginning of the year. In January 2023, Lithuanian airports handled more than 384 thousand passengers and 3.6 thousand flights. Cargo volumes continue to grow steadily. According to Tomas Zitikis, Head of Route &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

A new Entry &#8211; Exit System (EES) is planned to be launched at border posts this year. This will directly affect third-country citizens entering the European Union (Schengen area) for the first time, who will have to undergo an additional registration procedure before crossing the border. This upcoming change will also require new infrastructure and &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>

Lithuanian Airports will open a new chapter with the start of construction of the new departure terminal at Vilnius Airport. According to Arnas Dūmanas, Head of the Operations and Infrastructure Department of Lithuanian Airports, the new terminal will be the most modern terminal not only in the Lithuanian network, but also in the entire Baltic &hellip; <a href="https://vilnius-airport.lt/en/aviation-summer-season-2023/">Continued</a>