Air Lituanica

Air Lituanica
IATA code :	LT
ICAO code :	LTU
Call sign :	LITUANICA
Founding:	2013
Operation stopped:	2015
Seat:	Vilnius , Lithuania
Turnstile :	Vilnius airport
Home airport :	Vilnius airport
Company form:	UAB
IATA prefix code :	431
Management:	Erikas Zubrus ( CEO )
Fleet size:	4th
Aims:	international
Website:	www.airlituanica.com
Air Lituanica ceased operations in 2015. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Lituanica was a Lithuanian airline based in Vilnius and based at Vilnius Airport .

history

Air Lituanica was founded on May 1st, 2013 by the municipality of Vilnius (under the leadership of Zuokas ) as the main shareholder with other investors. Flight operations began on June 30, 2013, the company was supported by Estonian Air from Estonia .

On November 27, 2013, however, Estonian Air canceled all contracts with Air Lituanica due to unpaid invoices.

In 2014, a total of 132,000 passengers were carried across the network.

On May 22, 2015, only a few flights took place, the rest of them were stopped. Flight operations ceased on May 23, 2015. The Latvian company Air Baltic took over some of the Lituanica flights until the end of May 2015. Air Lituanica passengers fly with Air Baltic on routes to and from Munich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Paris, Billund, Stockholm, Vilnius and Tallinn . The company offered Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg and Munich three Germany destinations from the Lithuanian capital.

Destinations

Since the start of operations, Air Lituanica has linked Vilnius with Berlin , Brussels and Amsterdam , Tallinn , Prague and Munich, among others .

fleet

Embraer 170 from Air Lituanica

As of April 2015, the Air Lituanica fleet consisted of four aircraft:

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks	Seats
ATR 42-500	1		leased from DOT LT	46
Embraer ERJ 145	1		leased from bmi regional	49
Embraer 170	1		leased from Estonian Air	76
Embraer 175	1			86
total	4th	-

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Air Lituanica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Air Lituanica website (English, Lithuanian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tarp "Air Lituanica" investuotojų - Guoga ir Garbaravičius
2. ↑ estonian-air.ee - Estonian Air terminates all its contractual relationships with Air Lituanica ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English) November 29, 2013.
3. ↑ Air Lituanica ceases all flights , accessed on May 22, 2015
4. ↑ Air Lituanica ceases flight operations
5. ↑ Air Lituanica: flight operations ceased
6. ↑ Air Lituanica takes on Vilnius-Hamburg
7. ↑ airlituanica.com - Air Lituanica flights ( Memento from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on April 23, 2015
8. ↑ ch-aviation - Air Lituanica (English) accessed on April 23, 2015
9. ↑ airlituanica.com - Fleet ( Memento from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on April 23, 2015