The first flights from Vilnius to London City Airport will start on Wednesday. The planes of the Polish airline "LOT Polish Airlines" (LOT) will take off from Vilnius at 6:30 a.m. 16 minutes and 55 p.m. XNUMX minutes
In the summer, planes from Vilnius will fly twice on weekdays and once on Saturdays (6.30:16.55 a.m.) and Sundays (9.35:18.40 p.m.). Flights from London City will take place on weekdays at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. (local time), Saturdays in the morning, Sundays in the evening.
The flight from Vilnius to London City will be supported for the first time in Europe - it took Lithuania two years to convince the European Commission to allow the application of the support mechanism, as the EU is skeptical of state support for flights.
Economy and Innovation Minister Virginijus Sinkevičius said on Tuesday that this will be another opportunity for Lithuania to invite companies from London in the context of Brexit, and Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis said that Lithuanian businessmen have been asking for this flight for a long time.
According to V. Sinkevičius, the flight will fully pay off for the state if it is filled to at least 92 percent.
Now, only low-cost airlines fly to London from Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga - Hungarian "Wizz Air" and Irish "Ryanair".
Author: Paulius Viluckas
