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Apr 16, 2014 (newstodate): A significant part of the future for Lithuania's Kaunas Airport lies in building a role as a center for aviation-related businesses.
Kaunas Airport does have regular, scheduled and charter flight operations that brought the passenger volume in 2013 up by 5.5 percent to 3.48 mio passengers on flights by airlines including Ryanair, Wizz Air, SAS, UTair-Ukraine Airlines and Ukraine International Airlines.
On the cargo-side, the airport is however practically out of business since 2012 after a period with freighter flights.
But the aviation-related business is growing with Ryanair's 3,500 sq m maintenance and service hangar at Kaunas airport, and construction of a second hangar underway.
The helicopter company Aviabaltika is building a hangar on a 19,000 sq.m. site leased for a period of 40 years, and in Q3, 2013, the Lithuanian MRO provider FL Technics opened its new 8,000 sq m facility at Kaunas Airport, designed for maintenance of short and medium range aircraft as well as for long-range wide-body Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Latest news is a land lease agreement for 40 years signed in February 2014 with Global Travel Supply that will build and operate a building for production and storage of food and other products to be delivered to aircraft.
Kaunas Airport does have regular, scheduled and charter flight operations that brought the passenger volume in 2013 up by 5.5 percent to 3.48 mio passengers on flights by airlines including Ryanair, Wizz Air, SAS, UTair-Ukraine Airlines and Ukraine International Airlines.
On the cargo-side, the airport is however practically out of business since 2012 after a period with freighter flights.
But the aviation-related business is growing with Ryanair's 3,500 sq m maintenance and service hangar at Kaunas airport, and construction of a second hangar underway.
The helicopter company Aviabaltika is building a hangar on a 19,000 sq.m. site leased for a period of 40 years, and in Q3, 2013, the Lithuanian MRO provider FL Technics opened its new 8,000 sq m facility at Kaunas Airport, designed for maintenance of short and medium range aircraft as well as for long-range wide-body Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Latest news is a land lease agreement for 40 years signed in February 2014 with Global Travel Supply that will build and operate a building for production and storage of food and other products to be delivered to aircraft.