OREANDA-NEWS. Ryanair, Europe’s favourite low cost airline celebrates the start of its long awaited route from Lithuanian’s Capital City, Vilnius. It’s the first route, out of six, starting from Vilnius to Milan (Bergamo). The new route from Vilnius to Milan (Bergamo) will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays and also from 11th May on Wednesdays, reported the press-centre of Ryanair.

Ryanair offers six new routes to Dublin, London (Stansted), Milan (Bergamo), Rome (Ciampino), Barcelona (Girona) and Bremen from Vilnius as it expands in Lithuania following the success of its Kaunas base which opened in May 2010. Ryanair’s new routes are on sale now on www.ryanair.com with launch fare offer of 73LTL.

Ryanair’s six Vilnius route will deliver up to 250,000 passengers p.a. and sustain 250 jobs while its Kaunas base delivers over 1 million passengers p.a. sustaining over 1,000 local jobs.

Ryanair celebrated its six new Vilnius routes by releasing 1 million EUR 8 seats for travel on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays on over 1,300 routes across its European network, in June.

Lithuanian passengers will now be able to choose from two airports 24 direct routes across the Europe. 

Katarzyna Gaborec, Ryanair’s Sales & Marketing Executive for Central and Eastern Europe is pleased with the inaugural flight today:

“We are delighted to launch our first out of six new routes from Lithuanian’s Capital City, Vilnius, today. These follow the success of our Kaunas base which opened in May 2010. The new routes will allow us to bring guaranteed lowest fares, more competition and choice to even more consumers / visitors to exciting destinations all over Europe including Greece, Italy and Spain among other.  Ryanair’s 250,000 passengers at Vilnius and over 1 million passengers p.a. at Kaunas will sustain over 1,250 jobs in the Lithuanian economy as Ryanair continues to offer a mix of exciting direct and low fare routes. We urge everyone to get on to www.ryanair.com and book your flights as seats this cheap will be snapped up quickly”.