FlyLal
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FlyLAL (Lithuanian Airlines) | ||
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IATA TE |
ICAO LIL |
Callsign LITHUANIA AIR |
Founded | 1938 | |
Hubs | Vilnius International Airport | |
Focus cities | Palanga International Airport | |
Frequent flyer program | Gintarinės mylios | |
Fleet size | 10 | |
Destinations | 21 | |
Headquarters | Vilnius, Lithuania | |
Key people | Arūnas Griškėnas | |
Website: http://www.flylal.com |
FlyLAL (also known as Lithuanian Airlines and LAL) is the national airline of Lithuania based in Vilnius. It operates domestic and international scheduled services. Its main base is Vilnius International Airport [1].
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[edit] Code data
[edit] History
The airline was established on 20 September 1938 and started operations on 29 September 1938 as passenger aviation company "Lietuvos oro linijos" (Lithuanian Air Lines) [1], which possessed 2 Percival Q-6 aircraft. The airline started off with flights from Kaunas to Palanga and Riga. In 1940 Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union. All flights in the country were operated by a regional branch of Soviet airline Aeroflot
The airline was re-established and renamed, Lietuvos avialinijos on 20 September 1991, shortly after Lithuania's independence from the USSR. It was organised on the basis of Aeroflot fleet based in Vilnius. In 1991 the Boeing 737-200 was introduced to the Lithuanian Airlines fleet, the first in the former USSR. Until 2005, 100% of shares were controlled by government of Lithuania.[citation needed]
After a decade of loss-making operation, aborted plans to launch a trans-Atlantic service, widely criticized sale of landing slots at London Heathrow and amassing tens of millions of litas in debt, in 2005 it was privatized to Lithuanian investors, and uses new branding - flyLAL. The new owners announced plans to turn the airline into a low-cost carrier.[citation needed]
[edit] Services
flyLAL serves 16 countries in Europe (including codeshares) from its hub at Vilnius International Airport. From 2006 it operates international routes from Palanga International Airport.[citation needed]
Destinations served by LAL are:
- Amsterdam (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport)
- Antalya (Antalya Airport)
- Brussels (Brussels Airport)
- Dublin (Dublin Airport)
- Frankfurt (Frankfurt International Airport)
- Hamburg (Hamburg Airport)
- Helsinki (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport)
- Istanbul (Atatürk International Airport)
- Kiev (Boryspil Airport)
- London (London Gatwick Airport)
- Milan (Malpensa International Airport)
- Moscow (Sheremetyevo International Airport)
- Oslo (Oslo Airport, Gardermoen)
- Palanga (Palanga International Airport) Focus City
- Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
- Stockholm (Stockholm-Arlanda Airport)
- Tallinn (Tallinn Airport)
- Vilnius (Vilnius International Airport) HUB
[edit] Fleet
The includes the following aircraft (as of August 2006) [3]
Type | Number | Seats | Notes |
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Boeing 737-500 | 5 | 109-125 | |
Saab 2000 | 5 | 50 |
[edit] Livery
The first Boeing, acquired by Lithuanian Airlines, was painted in red, with white national coat of arms used as a logo. Soon, all LAL aircraft became white with yellow-green-red stripe (colours of national flag). This scheme is can still be seen on several LAL aircraft. From 2005, after the company was renamed to flyLAL, color-scheme was switched to pink and white.[citation needed]
[edit] Codeshare partners
FlyLAL has codeshare agreements with several airlines[citation needed]:
- Finnair (route Vilnius - Helsinki)
- Iberia (routes Vilnius - Barcelona and Vilnius - Madrid via Brussels or Frankfurt airports)
- KLM (route Vilnius - Amsterdam)
- SN Brussels Airlines (route Vilnius - Brussels)
- Aeroflot (route Vilnius - Moscow)
- Pulkovo (route Palanga - St. Petersburg)
- DonbassAero (route Vilnius - Kiev)
- Aerosvit (route Vilnius - Simferopol)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b Flight International 5-11 April 2005
- ^ Airline Codes November 2006
- ^ FlyLal fleet
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