Match starts on July 2, 19:00h (Lithuanian time).

Head Coach — Kazys Maksvytis
Coach — Robertas Giedraitis
Coach — Egidijus Vasiliauskas
Conditioning Coach — Deividas Rinkevičius
Doctor — Alvydas Vainauskas
Mananger — Dainius Ciuprinskas

Schedule

30-06-2011
20.30 Lithuania – Croatia

01-07-2011
18.15 Lithuania – Korea

02-07-2011
20.30 Lithuania – Canada

In the Lithuanian Prime Minister‘s view, the United States holds a informal meeting in Prague to show that it stays focused on Europe.
“The symbolic meaning of the meeting is all that really matters. I think the United States is willing to show that it keeps seeking new security formats and that it stays deeply focused on Central Europe. As for Lithuania, it will continue to be one of the most responsive regions regarding the security aspect”, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said right before his visit to Prague.

According to Prime Minister A. Kubilius, Lithuania welcomes the long-sought agreement between US and Russian to scale down the weaponry of the world’s two greatest nuclear powers and hopes that the US strategic armaments will continue to play an important role in guaranteeing long-standing security in Europe. “We are certain of further strengthening of European-American relationship and sure that the planned changes will not diminish European security guarantees and the long-lived traditions of reliable partnership between Lithuania and the United States”, the Lithuanian Prime Minister said.
The new nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia replaces the 1991 START treaty which expired on 5 December last year. The renewal of the treaty is one of the most important tasks of the Obama administration.
Following the signing of the treaty President Barack Obama hosts a solemn dinner for leaders of Central European countries at the US Embassy in Prague.

Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “After profitable year 2009 and with a positive outlook for 2010, airBaltic is expanding the network of direct routes from Vilnius to strengthen our position in Lithuania.”

Nonstop flights from Vilnius to Hamburg will be offered by airBaltic three times a week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The flight on board a Boeing 737 aircraft will take two hours and 40 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LTL 170 (EUR 49), including airport fees and transaction charges.

Flights to Manchester will be offered twice a week – on Wednesdays and Saturdays (Thursdays and Sundays from Manchester to Vilnius). Passengers will board a Boeing 737 aircraft for a flight that will last for three hours and 30 minutes, with one-way ticket prices starting at LTL 185 (EUR 54), including airport fees and transaction charges.

Passengers travelling to Dublin will use flights on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays (Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Dublin to Vilnius), boarding a Boeing 737 aircraft for a flight that will last for three hours and 30 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LTL 185 (EUR 54), including airport and transaction fees.

Direct flights to the Norwegian capital of Oslo will be offered by airBaltic four times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Boeing 737 aircraft will take two hours to get to Oslo, with one-way ticket prices starting at LTL 105 (EUR 30), including airport and transaction fees.

For 2009 airBaltic has announced 20 million EUR preliminary profit, and achieved 6% passenger growth to 2.75 million passengers. In 2010, airBaltic will open at least nine new direct routes from Riga, and has so far announced destinations such as Madrid, Belgrade, Vaasa, Umea, Beirut, and Amman. The number of direct routes from Vilnius, announced by airBaltic over the past month, already total 10 – London, Paris, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Hamburg, Manchester, Dublin, and Oslo.

Heikki Vanhanen CEO of Reval Hotels: “We are pleased to announce partnership with airBaltic. We will promote airBaltic Hotels as provided by Reval Hotels. Together our ambition is to support each others efforts as well as jointly attract travellers to the markets where we operate.”

Customers of both companies will have an opportunity to experience seamless and high quality travel service. Both companies will reciprocally market each others services. Customers will enjoy the lowest price guarantee.

The move benefits both parties. Reval Hotels will be marketed to almost 3 million airBaltic passengers annually and therefore have a better reach to outside markets. Brand endorsement and new sales channels will strengthen revenues. For airBaltic, this will allow perfect brand alignment and positioning in the travel industry together with Reval Hotels providing 600 000 guest nights annually.

airBaltic will fly from Riga to Umeå four times a week – Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays (from Umeå to Riga on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays). The flights to and from Umeå will make a stop at the Finnish town of Vaasa. Passengers will board a Fokker 50 aircraft for a flight that will last for two hours and 30 minutes. One-way ticket prices will start at LVL 28 (EUR 39), including airport fees and transaction costs. A full schedule of flights is available on the company’s homepage – www.airbaltic.com.

In 2009, airBaltic also introduced compensation to passengers who lose their jobs, a widely appreciated move in the Baltics, Scandinavia and elsewhere.

We expect economic conditions in the Baltic markets to worsen in 2010 compared to 2009. GDP will continue to decline in 2010 and no recovery can be expected until summer 2011. We will see further collapse of local passenger traffic in the Baltics, as buying power of residents diminishes due to higher taxes, lower incomes and rising unemployment. airBaltic will therefore open at least 9 new routes to further strengthen our transit product. Our new routes will focus on niche markets in Scandinavia and the CIS where airBaltic faces a low level of competition. airBaltic will be the only serious airline in the Baltics in 2010. The new business lines of airBaltic – online travel agency airBalticTravel.com and customer loyalty programme BalticMiles – are expected to contribute considerably to 2010 result. In 2010 we will be closely looking at cost reductions by reviewing all areas of operations. In order to boost future development, a new airport terminal is required in Riga, and construction has to start as soon as possible, if Riga Airport is willing to accommodate any growth beyond 2011.”

airBaltic carried overall 216,051 passengers in December 2009 (from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn), representing 12% more than in the same month in 2008, when airBaltic transported 193,595 passengers. In December of this year, the number of passengers at the base of airBaltic in Riga has increased by 25% compared to the same period last year.

In December, airBaltic operated 3,825 flights, or 3% fewer than the 3,937 flights of December 2008. Between January and the end of December, the airline operated 45,967 flights in all.

The airline’s load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, increased to 66% points last month, or 9% points more than in December 2008. During the twelve months of 2009 airline’s passenger load factor was at a level of 68%, or 6% points more than during the same period in 2008.

The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic was at a level of 83.4% in December 2009. This means that more than 83 of every 100 airBaltic flights in December departed at the planned time or with a delay of no more than 15 minutes. The accumulated 15-minute punctuality indicator for 2009 was 91.3%.