Europe’s best-value city reveals major airport renovation with new terminals and train station

A MAJOR airdrome renovation volition marque flying to 1 of Europe's cheapest cities overmuch easier.

Vilnius successful Lithuania was named the champion worth metropolis successful Europe by the Post Office earlier this year.

And the city's main airdrome is to acquisition a immense expansion.

Vilnius International Airport is expected to invited up to 10 cardinal passengers by 2030.

This increases to 17 cardinal passengers expected a twelvemonth by 2052.

The caller enlargement plans volition summation capableness with a caller arrivals and departure terminal.

The departure terminal was acceptable to unfastened this summer, though has been delayed to February 2025.

Set crossed 14,400sqm, rider postulation volition treble from 1,200 to 2,400 an hour.

Inside volition beryllium 34 cheque successful counters and caller CT scanners, which volition velocity up information checks.

Self-service baggage assertion areas and seating areas volition beryllium portion of the caller terminal.

Costing astir €50million (£41.6million), the terminal operation has present finished with last investigating to instrumentality spot up of its opening next year.

And a caller arrivals terminal hopes to unfastened by 2028.

Arnas Dūmanas, Head of the Development Department of Lithuanian Airports, confirmed they had launched an architectural contention for the caller designs.

They said: "We are already successful a play of large change, but successful parallel we privation to marque each future infrastructure alteration astatine the capital’s aerial gateway.

"It is for these reasons that we judge that an planetary architectural contention of ideas for a caller accomplishment terminal and its situation is the champion mode to recognize what is disposable to take from and what to person successful the future.”

Experts person until adjacent twelvemonth to taxable their designs.

Also caller astatine the airdrome volition beryllium the Rail Baltica underground bid station.

Rail Baltica is simply a immense caller precocious velocity bid line, moving 540 miles done 3 countries.

Linking Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, it would beryllium the archetypal of its benignant connecting the Baltic states.

Set to outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic €24.8billion (£20.4billion), it volition besides yet widen to some Poland and Finland.

Here's a new airdrome opening successful Europe, with the £25billion mega airdrome hoping to "take connected Heathrow and Dubai".

And a large UK airdrome has revealed its £1.1billion renovation plans.