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According to the Lithuanian Transport Security Administration, 663 of the 881 trips are currently suspended, so only the buses make 182 trips. A month ago, there were 458 flights out of then 1,054.
Eglė Kučinskaitė, Head of the Institution’s Communication and International Cooperation Division, said that flights were suspended in all regions of the country, but the situation is stabilizing: no requests for suspension of flights have been received for several days.
“Today, the number of flights has decreased considerably, but the regions are not completely separated, because there are one or two flights left on the routes,” E. Kučinskaitė told BNS.
“There are already some that have been renovated, because the carriers themselves have seen that people are really having problems: flocking to the stations, waiting a lot, freezing outside and so on, so they have made changes on their own initiative”, said.
Gintaras Nakutis, president of the Lithuanian Passenger Transport Association, says that now between 15 and 20 percent remains. passengers and work is supported by the transport of shipments.
“Carriers have suffered passenger shortages since the beginning of the pandemic. (…) They are working at a loss and have not recovered after the first wave of quarantine. Now the number of passengers has fallen again, revenues are falling and costs are still higher. The network is now being maintained more because of the plots, there is more and more money, because if there were no plots, there would be even less trips, “G. Nakutis told BNS.
LRT radio announced that due to the decrease in the number of trips, the large bus that previously traveled from Biržai to Vilnius via Utena has now been replaced by a smaller medium, and passengers are congested on the crowded bus without going to work.
G. Nakutis told BNS that such a situation is not common, and if it is noticed that it repeats itself constantly, carriers change buses to larger ones and more trips can be resumed.
“It happens that there are no passengers, and somewhere in a place more people take and board. The driver should not allow (more than planned – BNS), but it is also the case that people start to fight, hit the driver, he accepts and other passengers express their discontent, “said G. Nakutis.
He said he hoped that if restrictions on movement between municipalities were lifted from February, more passengers would arrive and more flights could be resumed.
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