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Furthermore, the Kaunas company Transaviabaltika will no longer be able to fly to and from Belarus from Tuesday.
According to Lina Nuobarienė, Oro Navigacijos communications director, last week Belavia and Rubystar Airways made little use of Lithuanian airspace: 21 times.
“It’s not much, they don’t even make the TOP 25. These aren’t big traffic numbers. We had 7.5 thousand transit flights last month, ”L. Nuobarienė told BNS.
According to Oro Navigacijos, both Transaviabaltika and Belavia have flown from Minsk to Vilnius and back four to six times a day so far.
“Excluding unscheduled private flights, which also occurred from or to Minsk from time to time,” said L. Nuobarienė.
The ban on flying over Belarus in Lithuania affected up to 26 flights per day; most planes avoid Belarus and enter Lithuanian territory via Latvia or Poland.
“That number 26 is not the number of planes that we are losing. That number means how many planes are affected by the ban on flying through Belarusian airspace; they can be canceled or rerouted. Most of those 26 planes choose to fly, so we have them anyway, they are just incomplete, “said Oro Navigacijos representative.
Lithuanian airports: insurance can cost 0.7 million. euros
Lithuanian airports claim that they will not be significantly affected by the latest bans as airlines have simply adjusted their flight routes, trajectories, updated schedules if required by the specific situation and direction, and operations continue successfully.
“We have no reports of cancellations due to the ban on flying through Belarusian airspace. The market has adapted quickly and continues to prepare for the active summer flight season in June,” said Tadas Vasiliauskas, a spokesman for the airport, on BNS.
According to him, the only direct influence is that Belavia no longer flies to and from Vilnius airport. During the week, Belavia operated 12 passenger flights to and from Vilnius airport, but this, according to T. Vasiliauskas, is not a large number in the general context of air traffic.
According to him, due to the bans, Lithuanian airports can lose about 700 thousand. per year that the Belavia airports would have paid.
On Wednesday, the government banned Belarusian airlines from flying into Lithuanian airspace. The ban will go into effect on May 27 at 3 p.m.
On Tuesday, the government banned planes flying to and from Lithuania through Belarusian airspace.
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