The Latvian flag carrier airBaltic began nonstop flights between Vilnius, Lithuania, and Prague in the Czech Republic, on Thursday.
Flights between the two capital cities will be offered on Thursdays and Saturdays until September 27, the company declared in a news release that was presented on Friday.
“Nonstops to Prague will be significant for business and tourism,” Lithuania’s deputy transportation minister Roderikas Ziobakas said in the news release. “We expect this route to become especially important in the run-up to Lithuania’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in that this will help to ensure convenient links to major European capitals.”
airBaltic’s vice president for network management, Mantas Vrubliauskas, notes that there had been no nonstop flights between Vilnius and Prague for the past decade.
“The launch of nonstop flights between Vilnius and Prague restores a long-unserved route, making travel significantly easier for the approximately 20,000 passengers annually who have had in the past to rely on connecting flights,” he says.
The Latvian-based airline offers more than 130 routes from Rīga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere and, on a seasonal basis, Gran Canaria with more than 70 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus.
Source: BNS
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