Tags: Kaunas Airport

Search for contractors to develop Kaunas Airport: after reconstruction, Lithuanian airports will be able to handle more than 10 million passengers a year

6th June 2023

Kaunas Airport is taking an important strategic step – international tenders for the selection of contractors for the passenger terminal and the northern apron expansion projects have been announced. This year’s data shows that passenger flows at Kaunas Airport are at a record high and ahead of previous forecasts. If this trend continues, this year […]

Preparing for big changes at Kaunas Airport: upcoming expansion projects

4th April 2023

Lithuanian Airports are launching market consultations on an international public tender to be announced at the end of April to find a contractor for the expansion of the Kaunas Airport passenger terminal. The expansion works are expected to start in the second half of this year and will last about two years. Once completed, the […]

Lithuanian Airports announces an international tender for the operator of all its parking lots

29th March 2023

Lithuanian Airports has announced an international tender for the selection of the operator of all the parking lots managed by Lithuanian Airports. The new operator will manage more than 3,300 parking spaces (existing and planned in the future) at three airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga. It is being planned that the winner of the […]

Lithuanian airports among the first in Europe to complete preparations for a modern border screening system: changes expected to start this year

14th February 2023

A new Entry – 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 […]

New and automated defibrillators delivered to passenger terminals at Lithuanian Airports

25th January 2023

Lithuanian Airports announces that since January, brand new, additional and automated defibrillators have been installed in the passenger terminals of Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports. A total of 15 additional smart emergency devices have been installed and are available in the most crowded areas of the airport. Currently, there are 23 automated defibrillators at all […]

Lithuanian airports’ aviation traffic results for October 2022

10th November 2022

Aviation growth continues to rapidly catch up with the pre-pandemic (2019) results, with nearly 90% of passenger traffic and 80% of flight traffic restored this October. Last month, 548 000 passengers travelled through Lithuanian airports, 4 713 flights were handled, and cargo volumes grew. Kaunas Airport continues to demonstrate an exceptional rate of recovery and […]

The winter aviation season starts at Lithuanian airports: the most popular routes and new destinations for winter holidays

28th October 2022

On the last Sunday of October, the winter aviation season will start along with the change of time. This year, Lithuanian airports for travellers will offer almost 70 destinations, including two new routes for ski enthusiasts. According to representatives of Lithuanian Airports, the winter season routes will maintain Lithuania’s good air connectivity with strategically important […]

Lithuanian Airports: in September aviation traffic continued to grow, with double-digit growth in charter passenger numbers

7th October 2022

Aviation growth has continued unabated at the start of autumn, with traffic and passenger numbers close to pre-pandemic rates. In September, Lithuanian airports handled just over 531,000 passengers and 4.7 thousand flights. In the same period in 2019, 603,000 passengers and 5.7 thousand flights were handled. In total, during the first nine months of 2022 […]

Statistics of Lithuanian Airports in July: aviation flows have almost reached pre-pandemic results

10th August 2022

In July this year, Lithuanian Airports almost reached the pre-pandemic total monthly passenger flow results – last month we managed to restore 97% of the same passenger flow in 2019. In July, more than 577,000 passengers travelled through the country’s airports and 4,795 flights were handled. For the fourth month in a row, Kaunas Airport’s […]

Kaunas Airport faces a major apron expansion: additional aircraft parking and engine testing areas to be added

15th July 2022

Lithuanian Airports has signed a design work contract with Kelprojektas, which will prepare a project for the expansion of the northern apron of Kaunas Airport. The project will create additional aircraft parking and engine testing areas, which will increase the number of aircraft parking spaces at Kaunas Airport by more than 50%. The value of […]