Airport in Vilnius
Vilnius Airport is the main international airport in Lithuania. The airline is located seven kilometers from the center of the capital, consists of three terminals and serves more than three million passengers a year, not counting the cargo turnover, which is about seven thousand tons per year..
More than twenty airlines around the world cooperate with Vilniaus oro uostas. Its main airlines remain Wizz air, Air Baltic, Ryanair. During the season, charter flights are regularly sent from Vilnius to the most popular countries in the world among tourists. And in just a year from the airport there are flights to 75 destinations.
History
The first flights from the airport in Vilnius were made in July 1944. In October 54, the first airport building was put into operation, built according to the plan of the Soviet architects D. Budrin and G. Elkin, in the so-called style «Stalinist Empire». Today it houses the arrival area of passengers.
In 1993 the second terminal of the airport was launched. And after Lithuania entered the Schengen area, in autumn 2007, a third terminal was opened here. Now the airport has fulfilled all the conditions of the Schengen agreement and received international status. In the abbreviation system of the three-letter airport code, Vilnius airport is listed under the code «VON».
Service and services
Modern and quite compact airport terminals offer a full range of services that meet Schengen standards. More than eight hundred airport employees provide a well-functioning system of the airline.
It offers passengers comfortable waiting rooms, free Internet, numerous cafes, restaurants, an arcade of shops and a duty free zone. There is an information bureau (including in Russian), a post office, currency exchange offices, and ATMs. Passenger service is always at the highest level here.
A very simple navigation scheme. There are signs and directions for movement everywhere, in addition, additional information can always be obtained from the information desk..
Transport
In just seven minutes you can get from the airport to the central railway station by train. The ticket price is LVL 2.5, the train schedule can be viewed on the website of the Lithuanian railway.
Buses run from the airport to the city all the time: No. 1 - to the central railway. railway station and number 2 - to the city center. A bus ticket costs LVL 2 from the driver, and LVL 1.8 from the kiosk at the station. You can also take route taxis following the same routes as buses.