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However, most people hungry for travel already go to neighboring countries to entertain and spend their vacations, and are also interested in booking tickets for future trips in August or later months.
“Tales”: the number of foreigners has decreased
Renata Petkevič, director of international transport for the Long Distance Passenger Transport Company (Toks), which has not yet renewed all routes, said that so far a third of buses travel on international flights.
“Until now, we have traveled to Gdańsk every other day, and since July 16, we have been operating flights every day. Last year, since June 1, we have been going to Gdansk every day. As of Friday , there will be an additional flight from Vilnius to Riga in the morning. Second in one day, “said R. Petkevič.
According to her, last year “such” buses went to Riga three times a day. Two Toks buses went to Tallinn and Warsaw per day last year, now just one.
TOKS bus / company photo
Three of those buses used to travel to Minsk a day, two to Kiev and one to Lviv and Kaliningrad. The company is still unable to renew these flights.
According to R. Petkevič, the passenger contingent has also changed somewhat: a year ago, more foreigners, especially Ukrainians and Chinese, were traveling.
“Usually now citizens of the Baltic states travel, there are not many from other countries. Many Chinese traveled to Riga (last year – BNS). Now people travel with work visas or residence permits. But the number of Ukrainians is growing, although there is nothing to compare with last year’s flows, “said R. Petkevič.
A quarter of Kautra’s buses make international trips
According to Edmundas Pavlovas, a representative of Kautra, which has partially renewed international transportation, so far the number of passengers is “much less than at the same time last year,” the company uses only 25 percent. Buses for international trips.
“If we take the direction of Latvia, there is not even a side, perhaps 60 percent. Less. In the direction of Poland, the decrease is slightly less, 40 percent. Fewer passengers,” said the head of international transport for KNSra. at BNS.
According to E. Pavlov, as before, “social immigrants” mainly work or study. It is true that on weekends in Riga people usually go to have fun.
Starting June 5, Kautra will carry passengers from Kaunas to Riga, and from Vilnius to Riga, Warsaw and Gdansk, starting June 15.
Company photo / intercity bus
“About half of the buses carry passengers, because there is one bus in each direction every day, instead of two as before. Except in Gdansk, where a bus used to run the day before,” said E. Pavlov.
He hopes that the number of passengers will increase when the borders with Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are released and that Kautra’s buses bring people to Lviv, Grodno, Minsk, Kiev and the Kaliningrad region.
Lux Express: passengers are already booking tickets
Lux Express executives note that residents of different Baltic countries use the renewed routes with different intensity: Lithuanians travel to Warsaw more actively, while Latvians and Estonians more frequently choose flights connecting Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius .
For example, 39 percent. All passengers who choose a route to the Polish capital are Lithuanian residents: they use renewed flights in this direction more actively. Meanwhile, Latvians and Estonians using the Vilnius-Riga, Vilnius-Tallinn and Riga-Tallinn routes are the ones who buy more than two-thirds of all tickets.
Although Lux Express has renewed all previous routes, so far passenger traffic has reached only half the level of last year, and in Lithuania only a third, showing that the activity of Lithuanian travelers is the slowest recovery from all the Baltic countries.
“Recovery in passenger traffic is slow and has now reached half the traffic we serve at the same time last year,” Raitas Remmelis, head of international business development for Lux Express, told reporters.
According to him, in the early days, as soon as international routes in the Baltic States were resumed, all tickets were exchanged on the same day of travel or the day before. There is now an early return travel plan, for example, residents are booking tickets two weeks in advance, which R. Remmel says is a sign that interest in the trip and the confidence of passengers are returning.
Lux Express resumed flights between the three capitals of the Baltic States in May, and the Vilnius-Warsaw route in mid-June.
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