Michael O'Leary said that the opening of the hangar shows Ryanair's commitment to develop its operations in Kaunas, adding that there were plans to expand the maintenance facilities in the future.
"It means that we have a long-term commitment to Kaunas. It also encourages us to look at more routes, to look at more opportunities to grow traffic and tourism here at the airport of Kaunas," he said at a news conference.
O'Leary says that Ryanair's maintenance base in Kaunas employs 40 specialists. It can accommodate one aircraft at a time and performs C type maintenance checks, which are "the second-most serious", he says.
The CEO noted that Ryanair was the first foreign company to invest in an aircraft maintenance base in Lithuania.
The Irish airline has aircraft maintenance and service centers in Britain and Germany. In Lithuania, it currently offers flights from the airports of Vilnius and Kaunas.
