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“All flights today from Lithuanian airports to the UK have already been canceled,” a spokesman for Lithuanian airports, Tadas Vasiliauskas, told BNS.
According to the government decision, flights from Lithuania to the UK are not prohibited, but T. Vasiliauskas says that there are no planes flying from the UK to Vilnius or Kaunas, so there will be no flights from Lithuania either.
“Theoretically, the ban restricts flights only from the UK to Lithuania, but in reality, logistically, because it is forbidden to enter, airlines do not send their plane only from somewhere to Lithuania. Although they are not prohibited, they will not happen ”, said T. Vasiliauskas.
According to him, this week alone, 7,000 people from the UK could come to Lithuania. people, and 3,000 to go.
On Monday alone, there were six flights from Vilnius to the UK and two from Kaunas.
By the new year, a total of 101 flights were to be made between Lithuania and the UK. Ryainair, Wizzair, LOT and Air Baltic fly in these directions.
The government suspended all passenger flights from the UK from Monday morning until the New Year, with the spread of a new strain of coronavirus in the country.
At an urgent meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Sunday evening, it was decided to suspend flights from December 21 at 4 p.m. from December 24 to 31.
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