Ireland’s budget airline Ryanair is set to launch around a dozen new direct routes from Lithuania this summer.
This will bring the total number of destinations from Lithuania to 50, Dara Brady, director of marketing, digital and communications for Ryanair, told a press conference on April 26.
The new direct destinations are Aalborg, Brussels, Budapest, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Madrid, Stockholm, Warsaw, Birmingham, Eindhoven and Gdansk.
Ryanair is also set to expand its aircraft maintenance base at Lithuania’s Kaunas Airport and invest 15 million euros.
The hangar will double Ryanair’s capacity in Kaunas.
According to Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports, LOU), the airport’s operator, FRC LT, Ryanair’s Lithuanian subsidiary, is planning to build a two-part aircraft maintenance hangar after winning a tender to lease land.
Construction on the hangar is planned to start in late 2022 and be completed within a year.
The project is expected to create 200 new jobs for highly skilled aeronautical engineering, mechanical and administrative professionals, according to the company.
The company currently employs 270 people in Lithuania, most of them in Kaunas.
It will lease the plot of land adjacent to the apron of Kaunas Airport for 40 years. (LRT/Business World Magazine)