Marius Gelžinis, who has been the CEO of Lithuanian Airports since March 2018, is stepping down as the General Director as of 23 June. M. Gelžinis took the decision to resign after assessing the fact that he had already successfully implemented all the main objectives he had set himself at the beginning of his term and &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

In May this year, Lithuanian airports continued to rapidly approach the results registered before the pandemic. Last month, almost 528,000 passengers travelled through the country&#8217;s airports and more than 5,000 flights were handled. For the second month in a row, Kaunas Airport&#8217;s performance has already surpassed the results of 2019, which were considered to be &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

In mid-May, a public procurement for design services was completed and a contract was signed with the design companies Maspro and the Latvian company Nams, whose representatives will have to design and prepare the necessary documents for the construction of two business complexes at Vilnius and Kaunas Airports. The value of design works is 224,000 &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

A representative public opinion poll conducted at the end of April showed that the majority of the Lithuanian residents consider industry, road transport, the waste sector and agriculture as the most polluting activities (in terms of carbon dioxide). A significant proportion of respondents (17%) indicated that aviation and air transport were among the activities that &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

In April this year, passenger and flight traffic continued to grow at all Lithuanian Airports. Compared to the same period last year, the total number of passengers increased sixfold and reached 447,000 last month, while the number of flights more than doubled as more than 4.3 thousand flights were handled in April. According to Aurimas Stikliūnas, &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

COLOGNE, May 11, 2022 &#8211; The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issued an update to the health safety measures for air travel, dropping the recommendation for mandatory wearing of medical masks in airports and on board a flight, while noting that a face mask is &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

Ryanair announced that FRC LT, a Ryanair Group company, has won the land-lease tender for a plot at Kaunas Airport for the next 40 years. Construction works of the new MRO facility are set to begin in Q4 of 2022, with the start of aircraft maintenance operations planned for the end of 2023. Plans also &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

In the first quarter of this year, Lithuanian Airports continued to record the recovery of the aviation sector. Passenger traffic increased by 5.5 times and the number of flights by almost 2.5 times compared to the same period last year. According to experts, in both February and March, passenger traffic at Lithuanian Airports exceeded the &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>

In March 2022, Lithuanian Airports welcomed almost 312,000 passengers and almost 3,700 flights. In comparison, in March 2021, the three airports welcomed 56,000 passengers and more than 1,600 flights. The number of passengers has already increased by 67% and the number of flights by 80% compared to the pre-pandemic level (March 2019). Aurimas Stikliūnas, Head of &hellip; <a href="https://kaunas-airport.lt/en/aurimas-stikliunas-will-take-the-temporary-lead-of-lithuanian-airports/">Continued</a>