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Jan 15, 2016 (newstodate): Lithuania expects further growth in traffic at its three international airports, under one hat since July 1, 2014.
Lietuvos Oro Uostai, Lithuanian Airports, is now the joint operator of the airports of Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga that together saw traffic in 2015 up by 11.3 percent, y-o-y, to 4.2 mio passengers, and the number of flights up by 5.7 percent, to 50,000.
A number of new destinations were added to the map of Lithuanian Airports, and with Germania and Vueling launching new traffic in 2016 the company is upbeat in its expectations for further growth in 2016.
-This year is special for us. Even though passenger traffic in the neighboring countries has recovered, the data for the past three years shows that the Lithuanian market grew, on average, by 10 percent, the Latvian market by 0.5 percent, and the Estonian market by 1.8 percent, Gediminas Almantas, Lithuanian Airports CEO, said at a news conference on Thursday as reported by Lithuanian media.
Mr Almantas also presented figures to show that while air cargo has grown by 28.7 percent, y-o-y, in Lithuania, volumes through Latvia's Riga Airport were down 42 percent in 2015.
This seems rather at odds with statistics for 2015 where Vilnius Airport reported a drop by 2.1 percent, y-o-y, to 8,189 tonnes while Riga Airport was indeed down by 43 percent to 18,863 tonnes due to the shortfall of the past ISAF cargo volumes.
Lietuvos Oro Uostai, Lithuanian Airports, is now the joint operator of the airports of Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga that together saw traffic in 2015 up by 11.3 percent, y-o-y, to 4.2 mio passengers, and the number of flights up by 5.7 percent, to 50,000.
A number of new destinations were added to the map of Lithuanian Airports, and with Germania and Vueling launching new traffic in 2016 the company is upbeat in its expectations for further growth in 2016.
-This year is special for us. Even though passenger traffic in the neighboring countries has recovered, the data for the past three years shows that the Lithuanian market grew, on average, by 10 percent, the Latvian market by 0.5 percent, and the Estonian market by 1.8 percent, Gediminas Almantas, Lithuanian Airports CEO, said at a news conference on Thursday as reported by Lithuanian media.
Mr Almantas also presented figures to show that while air cargo has grown by 28.7 percent, y-o-y, in Lithuania, volumes through Latvia's Riga Airport were down 42 percent in 2015.
This seems rather at odds with statistics for 2015 where Vilnius Airport reported a drop by 2.1 percent, y-o-y, to 8,189 tonnes while Riga Airport was indeed down by 43 percent to 18,863 tonnes due to the shortfall of the past ISAF cargo volumes.