{"id":11617,"date":"2026-10-08T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:01:39","slug":"lithuanian-airports-passenger-and-cargo-traffic-continued-to-grow-in-september-following-a-record-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/lithuanian-airports-passenger-and-cargo-traffic-continued-to-grow-in-september-following-a-record-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Airports: Passenger and Cargo Traffic Continued to Grow in September Following a Record Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-classic-paragraph-block\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Lithuanian Airports (LTOU) reports that it handled more than 711,000 passengers in September, a 6% increase compared with the same period last year. Cargo volumes transported through the airport network also grew, rising by 18% year on year to nearly 2,000 tonnes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we recorded a record-breaking summer, handling nearly 2.3 million passengers and more than 17,000 flights over the three summer months. Although the peak summer travel season has come to an end, September\u2019s results show that passenger and cargo traffic remained high and continued to grow,\u201d says Gintar\u0117 Norvilait\u0117-Tautevi\u010d\u0117, Acting CEO of Lithuanian Airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copenhagen Was September\u2019s Most Popular Destination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vilnius Airport recorded the strongest passenger growth in September. Compared with the same period last year, passenger numbers increased by 8% to 530,000. Kaunas Airport handled nearly 145,000 passengers, while Palanga Airport welcomed 36,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A total of 5,600 flights were operated across all three Lithuanian airports in September. The three most popular scheduled destinations for the month, measured by passenger numbers, were Copenhagen, London and Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cargo Traffic Grew Significantly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cargo traffic also stood out in September. Nearly 2,000 tonnes of cargo were transported through Lithuanian Airports, an 18% increase compared with the same period last year, when volumes reached 1,650 tonnes. Longer-term figures also indicate steady growth: compared with September 2019, when 1,530 tonnes of cargo were transported, volumes this year were 27% higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gintar\u0117 Norvilait\u0117-Tautevi\u010d\u0117 notes that growing cargo volumes demonstrate the increasing attractiveness of Lithuanian Airports\u2019 infrastructure for international logistics and businesses, for which fast and reliable delivery of goods is particularly important.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Airports (LTOU) reports that it handled more than 711,000 passengers in September, a 6% increase compared with the same period last year. Cargo volumes transported through the airport network also grew, rising by 18% year on year to nearly 2,000 tonnes. \u00a0 \u201cThis year, we recorded a record-breaking summer, handling nearly 2.3 million passengers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/lithuanian-airports-passenger-and-cargo-traffic-continued-to-grow-in-september-following-a-record-summer\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-14 04:50:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11620,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/11620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltou.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}