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Kautra director Linas Skardžiukas says passenger flow has recently reached 25 percent. last year’s traffic, and the company’s losses, which have already exceeded a million. it should reach around 2 million euros by the end of the year. euros.
“All the people who are encouraged to move less, of course, sit more in their cars, because there is a lot of transport on the streets, but public transport is really going through a big crisis,” L Skardžiukas told BNS .
According to him, in the near future the company plans to cancel 25 of the approximately 250 flights. There may be more disrupted flights in the future, but this must first be agreed with the Lithuanian Transport Security Administration. It is expected to do so on Wednesday.
“The objective is to maintain the network so that the population has connections, not to reduce trips to the regions, but to reach everywhere, but the number of routes will be reduced,” said the head of “Kautra”.
“Today we continue driving because we are forced and we cannot stop, it does not matter if the drivers come and say, do not send me to Druskininkai, because on the second day nobody was going from one place to another,” he added.
L. Skardžiukas says that there will be fewer trips from Vilnius to Kaunas, Jonava, Šiauliai, Mažeikiai, Palanga, Druskininkai.
At that time, the head of the company “Toks” Arūnas Indrašius says that charter shipments have been suspended since March, 11 international routes are also not served, except twice a week, to Lviv in Ukraine. At that time, passenger flows between cities were reduced by about 40%, so 11 routes will be closed in the near future and flights to other locations will decrease.
“Figures for October show that 11 routes have exceeded the cost limit, we are operating at a loss in October and early November shows the same. Revenues are decreasing, the number of travelers is decreasing, ”A. Indrašius told BNS.
“We are thinking about how to dilute them, leave connections between big cities, taking into account passenger flows. Some routes are duplicated, they run multiple times a day and we will narrow them down. In total, 11 routes are ready to close so far, “he added.
His manager has not yet specified how much the company has suffered losses.
The managers of both companies have also hinted that they are waiting for help from the state, as they can only benefit from downtime subsidies so far. According to A. Indrašius, he has contacted the Ministry of Transport and Communications for support, but so far no responses have been received.
The quarantine in Lithuania went into effect at midnight on Saturday and will last until November 24 at 24:00. This regime, designed to control the spread of COVID-19, is being introduced in Lithuania for the second time: the first quarantine came into effect in March-June.
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