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Kaunas International Airport (EYKA) lies at Karmėlava, some 14 km northeast of Kaunas city centre and about 100 km west of Vilnius, and is Lithuania's second-busiest civil airport. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced, ILS-equipped runway and full air traffic control, making it a straightforward and well-equipped destination for a simulated approach into central Lithuania.
Kaunas International Airport serves the city of Kaunas in central Lithuania and is operated by the state enterprise responsible for the country's airports. It is the second-busiest airport in Lithuania after Vilnius and the fourth-busiest in the Baltic states, and has been a base for Ryanair since 2006, giving it a steady flow of scheduled airline traffic that makes it an interesting IFR or VFR destination for the simulator pilot exploring the Baltic region.
The airport sits in the central part of Lithuania at Karmėlava, roughly 14 km northeast of Kaunas city centre and about 100 km west of the capital, Vilnius. As a controlled international airport with its own tower and approach control, arriving traffic operates within controlled airspace rather than joining an uncontrolled circuit.
Kaunas has a single physical runway, 08/26, an asphalt strip roughly 9,668 ft (approximately 2,946 m) long. It is lit and equipped with ILS on both directions, making it well suited to instrument approaches in poor weather as well as visual arrivals.
Pilots should expect to work Kaunas Approach on 124.2 MHz and Kaunas Tower on 118.5 MHz, with 121.6 MHz listed for miscellaneous use. The runway is served by ILS on both 08 and 26, supporting instrument approaches to either end.
Kaunas Airport opened on 1 July 1988 on the site of a former Soviet army missile base, and was granted the status of an international airport by government resolution on 6 April 1994. Ryanair began flying to Kaunas in 2004 and established a base there in 2006, which by 2010 had become the airline's first base in Eastern Europe, driving a 77 percent increase in passenger traffic that year and earning the airport a European award for fastest growth in its category. In 2017 the airport temporarily took on additional traffic when Vilnius Airport closed for reconstruction and flights were transferred to Kaunas.
Kaunas remains an active international airport and Ryanair operating base, with the airline maintaining its own aircraft maintenance hangar on the field, opened in 2013 and later expanded, alongside further maintenance investment by FL Technics. Scheduled services are flown by Ryanair and Wizz Air, along with seasonal charter operators, making it a busy but manageable airfield for simulator pilots wanting a mix of airline and general traffic in Lithuanian airspace.
