“Speaking about new budget carriers, I don’t see today that there could be any coming here... Whether there will be any in the future, it may definitely happen so. However, in Europe, budget carriers are not too willing to barge in where two budget carriers are already present. That’s the usual practice,” he said at a news conference on Thursday.
Later he added that the airport was talking about flights with Vueling now. “Vueling is a very interesting air carrier. We are talking to them as well.”
However, Almantas believes that no new budget carriers will start operations at Vilnius Airport in the near time. Ireland’s Ryanair and Hungary’s Wizzair are offering flights to and from Vilnius now.
New CEO of the airport also said that he would seek to improve links with some European cities, including Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Munich.
Lawyer Almantas won a competition to fill the job of CEO of Vilnius Airport early in May.
