Vilnius International Airport has announced it will close to all traffic between July 14, 2017 and August 18, 2017 to allow for the complete reconstruction of its main runway 02/20.

The airport said in a press communique that the nature of works required the complete shutdown of the airport during the period and as a result, all operations would be transferred to the neighbouring city of Kaunas International which is just 85km away.

Among the most prominent scheduled airlines that currently use the airport include: Wizz Air (W6, Budapest), Ryanair (FR, Dublin International), airBaltic (BT, Riga), and Small Planet Airlines (Vilnius).