Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air is to expand its operations in Lithuania, adding seven new routes across the country’s three airports by next summer and increasing flight frequencies.
From December, the carrier will also base a third aircraft at Vilnius Airport.
“We are bringing seven new routes from Lithuania, starting gradually between November this year and the next summer season,” András Szabó, Wizz Air’s commercial officer for Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East, told reporters in Vilnius on Friday.
"Now, we will also be present in Palanga. This is big growth, the airline will grow more than 50 percent in capacity in Lithuania. We cement our position as second largest airline with ambitions for more," he added.
The first new service, from Vilnius to Kraków, will begin on October 27, followed by flights to Tallinn on December 12, Nice and Turku. Services to Tirana and Podgorica are scheduled for March 31 and June 7 2026 respectively.
Meanwhile, new flights from Palanga Oslo are scheduled to start on December 10.
Simonas Bartkus, chief executive of Lithuanian Airports (LTOU), described the new routes as “exciting”, noting that destinations such as Podgorica were entirely new to Lithuania’s route network.
"We will have flights to Podgorica. Looking at our entire route map, which is approaching a symbolic 100 routes, we see that we need to look for more and more unique and new regions where we could expand connections from Lithuania," Bartkus told the press conference.
With the move, Wizz Air becomes the third airline to operate from all three of Lithuania’s airports, alongside airBaltic and Ryanair.
The airline says it has already operated around 3,000 flights to and from Lithuania this year, with 99.4% completed as scheduled.
This summer, Wizz Air has flown to 15 destinations from Vilnius, while operating only a London service from Kaunas.
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