Air Lituanica has signed an agreement to lease a 76-seater Embraer E170 jet from Estonian Air. The lease contract is valid until the end of 2015.

The leased aircraft is dedicated for flights from Vilnius to Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin starting at the end of June. Air Lituanica flights will be marketed under Air Lituanica brand and operated with Estonian Air flight number.

In addition to aircraft lease, airlines will cooperate in providing commercial services, like sales of tickets on point-to-point and connecting flights, revenue management, interline and code-share agreements.

According to Mr. Erikas Zubrus, the CEO of Air Lituanica it is very important to have a strong partner during the phase of entering the aviation market. Through the service agreement, Air Lituanica will be able to use already working booking channels, and agreements with partner airlines. “Air Lituanica has chosen Estonian Air as a commercial partner to ensure a wide distribution network throughout the world and to offer connecting flights starting from Vilnius to more than 100 cities,” said Erikas Zubrus.

“Estonian Air is a cost effective airline and cooperation between the two Baltic airlines will allow us to achieve more efficiency and provide competitive services,” said Mr. Jan Palmér, CEO of Estonian Air.

Air Lituanica will start flying from Vilnius to 6 European cities with Embraer E170 and E175 type aircraft, leased from Estonian Air and ECC Leasing respectively. The first flight from Vilnius to Brussels will take place on the 30th of June, and will be followed by flights to Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Munich and Moscow.

Ticket sales for Air Lituanica flights from Vilnius to Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin will start in the first week of June.