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| website = (airlituanica.com ) }} Air Lituanica was a Lithuanian airline headquartered in Vilnius and based at Vilnius Airport. It ceased operations in . == History == Air Lituanica was registered in late . It was named after ''Lituanica'', an aircraft commanded by Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas, two pioneer Lithuanian pilots that flew it on a transatlantic flight in 1933.〔 The carrier sole owner, ''Air Vilnius Group'', had an initial investment of LTL0.5 million. ''Air Vilnius Group'' was in turn owned by ''Šiaurės miestelis'', which had been registered on as a subsidiary of the Vilnius City Municipality. Plans were to collect LTL43.5 million (EUR14 million) from a number of investors for the establishment of the new airline.〔 Air Lituanica was established in .〔 The activation of the company was partly accelerated by the fact that Lithuania would take position in the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from to .〔〔 In , Brussels was announced to be the carrier first destination, with services starting on ; by this time, the air operator's certificate (AOC) had not been granted yet but the airline already had 27 employees.〔 The sale of tickets was launched in early using the Estonian Air booking channels. Also in early , a contract for the lease of an Embraer E-170 until 2015 was signed with Estonian Air.〔〔 An 86-seater Embraer E-175 leased from ECC Leasing Company, an Embraer subsidiary, would enter the fleet in ;〔 the aircraft was handed over by the manufacturer two months later than planned.〔 Air Lituanica received its AOC on ;〔 operations started four days later, on 30 June, serving the Vilnius–Brussels route with a leased Embraer E-170.〔〔〔 After its maiden flight, Air Lituanica became the first scheduled Lithuanian airline since FlyLAL and Star1 Airlines ceased operations in 2009 and 2010, respectively.〔 The carrier started flying its second route, Vilnius–Amsterdam–Vilnius, on 8 July; with these two routes, the airline contributes with 2% of the international capacity in the country; , the company ranked in terms of available seats to and from Lithuania.〔 Berlin Tegel, Prague and Munich were added to the route network on , and , respectively.〔〔〔 Following allegations of missed payments from both parties,〔 the contractual relationship between Air Lituanica and Estonian Air was unilaterally terminated by the Estonian national carrier in late 〔〔〔 and led to the end of operations for the Embraer 170 which was operated for Air Lithuanica by Estonian Air on the routes to Amsterdam and Berlin.〔ch-aviation.com/portal/news/23704-estonian-air-air-lituanica-divorce-after-fight-over-non-payments〕 In , it was informed the start of flights to Gothenburg and Malmö, to be served on a seasonal basis between and , and the resumption of flights to Amsterdam.〔 The latter destination had been discontinued on .〔 Air Lituanica ceased operations on .〔 The company subsequently filed for bankruptcy on 8 June 2015.〔http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/37949-air-lituanica-files-for-bankruptcy〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Lituanica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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