About Us

The first aircrafts with Lithuanian logos took off on March 1, 1919. These eight LVGC VI aeroplanes were purchased in Germany. Officially, air transportation started in Lithuania in 1921 when military planes carried mail throughout Lithuania.

Lithuanian Airlines history started in 1938 with the establishment of the airline Lietuvos oro linijos. At that time, Lietuvos oro linijos had two 7-seat Percival Q-6 aircraft purchased in England. Dženkaitis and Mockūnas, our first air transport pilots, piloted the first flight of both aircrafts from England. Lietuvos oro linijos operated the flights from Kaunas to Palanga and Riga.

From 1941 air services were taken over by Aeroflot. With the reestablishment of the independence of Lithuania in 1990, all natural resources and industries became property of the Republic of Lithuania. In September 1991 the Ministry of Transport established a state-owned company Lithuanian Airlines, the national carrier of the Republic of Lithuania.

At the same time the Training centre of Lithuanian Airlines had started its operations. The main functions were to educate aviation professionals for the new airline, to train own instructors, examiners and organize recurrent training for airline internal needs.

The airline was the first in the region to start operating Boeing 737-200 aircraft. In 1992 Lithuanian Airlines opened new destinations: Warsaw, Copenhagen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Increasing private trade links with Turkey, China, Greece and the Middle East gave rise to charter flights, averaging 5-a-week. A very significant event occurred on March 8, 1993 when Lithuanian Airlines joined IATA, which secured the airline’s international recognition. Lithuanian Airlines gained the right to sell tickets for flights of the world’s airlines. The company’s flight schedule was listed on global computer information networks. The airline joined the international accounting system and had to meet the IATA standards of flight safety, which was the key function of the Training Centre.

In 2005 Lithuanian Airlines changed owners from State-owned to private capital. As a result, Training centre began training flying personnel for outside customers, and in the year 2006 was reorganized into a separate private company.

In 2008 Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration granted the Training centre the status of a Type Rating Training Organization (TRTO).  After a few years of successful operations the Training centre moved to brand new facilities, installed Boeing 737-300/400/500 Full Flight Simulator and Real Fire Fighting and Smoke simulator. As a result, the Board of the Training centre decided to name it Baltic Aviation Academy giving an important message to the society about its commitment and ambitious goal to become a leader in the region.

In 2009 Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration approved Baltic Aviation Academy as a Flight Training Organization (FTO) meeting all international requirements of respective training organizations.

These accreditations certify the Academy to deliver training of CPL, PPL and ATPL pilots and issue respective licenses.