Palanga International Airport

ICAO EYPA55.9732°N 21.0939°E10 m / 33 ftLarge airport

Palanga International Airport (IATA: PLQ, ICAO: EYPA) is a large airport in Palanga, Klaipėda County, Lithuania. It opened in 1937. It has one runway, 2,280 m (7,480 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 443 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1937–1937

1937

OpenedPalanga International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01/19013° / 193° · LIT

LENGTH2,280 m7,480 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

134K

147K

236K

302K

322K

343K

126K

87K

274K

306K

373K

443K

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Routes

7 destinations · 6 countries

Year-round5

RIXRiga International AirportLatvia · AirBaltic206 km128 mi OSLOslo-Gardermoen International AirportNorway · Norwegian Air Shuttle, Wizz Air751 km467 mi BGOBergen Airport, FleslandNorway · Norwegian Air Shuttle1,045 km649 mi AMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · AirBaltic1,136 km706 mi STNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,433 km890 mi

Seasonal charter2

AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Mavi Gök Airlines2,243 km1,394 mi SSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · SkyUp3,288 km2,043 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PLQ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Palanga International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

6 airlines · destinations from PLQ

Passenger6

BTAirBaltic2 DYNorwegian Air Shuttle2

—Mavi Gök Airlinesseasonal charter · 1

FRRyanair1 PQSkyUpseasonal charter · 1 W6Wizz Air1

Former hub of Amber Air.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from PLQ. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers443K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,173of 3,974 · #264 Europe · #3 LT Longest runway2,280 m7,480 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,143of 29,858 · =617 Europe · #4 LT Elevation10 m33 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,220of 43,403 · =5,423 Europe · #35 LT AgeOpened 19372026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=703of 15,079 · =404 Europe · #2 LT Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =646 Europe · =8 LT

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels

APPAPP124.300

RMPRMP131.500

TWRTWR118.300

ATIS127.800