Lithuania PM: national airline plans to be revealed after Vilnius elections

  • 2015-03-05
  • from wire reports and TBT staff, VILNIUS

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has said that he is not against the creation of a national airline in principle is not  but stresses that without private investors such a company would not be viable.

According to the PM, the government has a number of plans regarding the possible Lithuanian national airline, however, he said that it would reveal them only after the run-off mayoral elections in Vilnius had been completed. Butkevicius did not go into details about whether the national airline would be established on the basis of Air Lituanica.

"I believe that the Government is prepared to work with a serious investor and contribute to the creation of this project. It is definitely in our interest to have as many as possible direct flights from Lithuania to other cities in Europe. We have a more or less clear vision but we need to wait for the end of elections and then make decisions," the PM said, speaking on the radio station Ziniu Radijas.

As reported, Investors' Forum recently proposed that the government of Lithuania should invest in the creation of a national airline.

This was one of ten proposals put forward to the government by Investors' Forum, an association uniting major investors in Lithuania's economy, on how to improve Lithuania's competitiveness and investment climate.