Following a consistent increase in the passenger and flight numbers throughout the recent years, Lithuanian Airports are continuing the trend this year. In the first quarter of 2018, all three Lithuanian airports served 8 % more flights and 16 % more passengers compared to last year’s numbers. Such optimistic results suggest that by the end of the year the number of passengers served will get close to 6 million.

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair on May 10th launched flights from Vilnius to Athens.

Inflation has slowed down in Lithuania lately but rising oil prices may push it up again, Laura Galdikiene, an economist from Swedbank, says.

A European Parliament initiative to give young people free rail tickets to allow them to discover the EU is about to become a reality.

By tradition, the Lithuanian Armed Forces, NATO allies deployed in Lithuania and friends of the Armed Forces are throwing a festival on Partisan Honouring, Military and Public Unity Day to offer a variety of ways to present to the public history, activities, weaponry, and equipment of the armed forces. This year the festival is held on May 19 in Alytus, near Sports and Recreation Centre and Youth Park.

American telecommunications company West is entering Lithuania and has registered a local subsidiary, West UC LT.

The EU should launch a diplomatic drive for a worldwide ban on testing cosmetics on animals before 2023, Parliament urged on Thursday.

The major part of Rail Baltica, the European-standard gauge railway, should be designed by 2021, but the design of the Vilnius-Kaunas link will depend on European funding, a representative of RB Rail, the Baltic states' joint company implementing the project, says.

“Painting Routers” – the first project implemented under “Kuriu Vilnių” (English: I am creating Vilnius) programme have been launched to the streets of the capital: exhibition on wheels – 5 trolleybuses decorated with paintings of well-known and actively creating new generation painters from Lithuania and Estonia – will travel around Vilnius till October.

The trip planning software “Trafi” will soon become an official distribution channel of electronic public transport tickets. SĮ Susisiekimo Paslaugos and “Trafi” signed an agreement granting to the company the rights of a ticket distributer, and the public transport will become a fully integrated part of the app of multimodal transportation in Vilnius.