The national airline is FlyLAL(TE) (website: www.lal.lt).

From London to Vilnius is 3 hours. From Berlin is 1 hour 20 minutes.

Vilnius Airport (VNO) (website: www.vilnius-airport.lt) is situated approximately 6km (3.5 miles) southeast of the city centre. To/from the airport: There are taxi and bus services to the city (journey time – 10 minutes). Minibuses also run. Facilities: Duty-free shop, banks/bureaux de change, refreshments, tourist information, travel agencies, hotel, VIP lounge and car hire.

There are also international airports in Kaunas (KUN) and Palanga (PLQ); the latter serves the whole of the Baltic coast.

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Main ports: Klaipeda is connected by trade routes with foreign ports.

There are ferry services to Denmark, Kaliningrad (Russian Federation), Germany, Poland and Sweden. There is also a cruise ship terminal. For information on ferry services from Klaipeda, contact Krantas Shipping (tel: (46) 395 111; website: www.krantas.lt). There are services to Karlshamm in Sweden; Aarhus and Aabenraa in Denmark; and to Kiel and Sassnitz in Germany.

Lithuania has a well-developed rail network run by Lithuanian Railways (website: www.litrail.lt). Vilnius is the focal point for rail connections in the region. Major routes go to Kaliningrad, Lviv (Ukraine), Minsk, Moscow, Riga, St Petersburg and Warsaw.

Lithuania has a good network of roads connecting the country with all neighbouring states. The crossing points on the Lithuanian-Polish border are Ogrodniki (Poland)–Lazdijai (Lithuania) and for trucks at Kalvarija (Lithuania). There are numerous crossing points with Latvia, Belarus and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. The international road Via Baltica goes from Tallinn to Warsaw through Latvia and Lithuania, thus connecting Scandinavia with Western Europe.

Coach: There are passenger coaches from Vilnius to cities including Berlin, Gdansk, Kaliningrad, Minsk, Moscow, Prague, Riga, Tallinn, Vienna and Warsaw. Charter buses go to all Western European countries. Eurolines (tel: 0871 781 8181, in the UK; website: www.eurolines.com) serves destinations in Lithuania.