LITHUANIA. Vilnius International Airport is to open a series of new retail and food & beverage outlets over the summer months, a development that comes as passenger traffic rises sharply at the location.
The opening of the new units follows a series of commercial tenders, which the airport said attracted over 100 bidders in total.
Leading duty free concessionaire UAB Travel Retail Vilnius – which is supplied by Gebr Heinemann – is to open a new store in the Departures area early this month; it will offer a range of items including spirits and destination merchandise, the airport said.
Two new F&B spaces will open in the same area: a Juta Jazz Kava fast food and snack bar (planned to open in early June) offering fresh coffee, snacks, and beer; and the Coffee Hill snack bar (to open in late June) offering fresh juice, coffee, and sandwiches.
Also in late June the non-Schengen Departures area will see the launch of a new fast food bar, named Fast’N’Fresh, offering sandwiches, snacks, and desserts. Finally, in Departures, a Lietuvos Spauda bookshop will be opened.
Landside, a new Alaus Uostas (“˜Beer Port’) bar will open soon in the Departure/Check-In Hall, offering various types of beer and national Lithuanian dishes. A new ice cream parlour is also planned, under the Žemaitijos Pienas brand.
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Vilnius International Airport: New retail and F&B outlets are opening at the fast-growing Baltic airport |
Vilnius International Airport Head of the Department of Commerce Simon Bartkus said: “Such a great interest in the premises offered for lease shows that the airport is attractive to entrepreneurs. We therefore invite business companies to engage in further cooperation in the development of operations at the airport. The airport offers commercial premises for various activities.”
In the first five months of this year Vilnius Airport handled 517,772 passengers, an increase of +10% compared to the same period last year. In May the figure of 134,019 represented a +19% surge over May 2009.
The most popular routes by passenger volume are to and from Copenhagen, Riga, London, Frankfurt, Prague, Dublin, Helsinki, Warsaw, Moscow and Vienna. The airport expects to handle around 2 million passengers in 2010.
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