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Lithuania airport, which operates three airports and continues the coronavirus pandemic, intends to stop the development of the Kaunas airport passenger terminal. Furthermore, the management of the Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports will be centralized early next year.
According to the company, some of the unresolved projects will also be suspended, only fully prepared or already started projects will be developed, including the reconstruction of the Palanga airport runway and the construction of a new departure terminal at Vilnius airport. Funding for them is expected.
According to Marius Gelžinis, director of Lithuanian airports, the main objective of the company is to return passenger flows to the previous level. In 2021, they are expected to reach 50 percent. Level 2019.
“Plans by states to initiate rapid mass vaccination in the near future and the growing initiative to harmonize the procedure for travelers by abandoning self-isolation and replacing it with testing are very encouraging,” M. Gelžinis said in the report.
Starting in January, the Lithuanian airports will merge part of the departments, the separate administrators of the Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports will be dismissed; his role will be taken over by the new head of the Department of Operations and Infrastructure, the current head of the Vilnius airport Dainius Čiuplys.
Laura Joffė, the current executive director of Lithuania airports, will head the new Finance and Administration Department.
According to M. Gelžinis, the decrease in passenger flow and cost reduction also led to the dismissal of employees: their number decreased by 25 percent.
Since November, the company has laid off or will lay off 48 workers: aviation security workers, firefighters and drivers. According to Sodra, the company now employs 573 people.
At the beginning of the year, Lithuanian airports began to streamline their operations, reduce costs, employees dropped and a large part of them perform various functions.
In the first half of the year, Lithuanian airports suffered 1.968 million. net loss, income was 11,665 million euros. euros (twice less than last year). Revenues from aviation activities alone fell 2.1 times to 7.263 million. euros.
Currently, planes fly to and from Lithuania in about 32 directions, but this number is constantly changing. A year ago, there were 80 addresses. Total passenger traffic per year in October, compared to October last year, decreased by 88 percent, and the number of flights by 62 percent.
