Lithuania without an airline?

The news portal Balsas criticises the government for having spent millions on PR for Lithuania while allowing the national airline flyLAL to go bankrupt at the beginning of Vilnius' year as European Capital of Culture: "The situation is certainly absurd because they're promoting a country that is unreachable: Lithuania, the country where no airplanes fly. … Yet Lithuania is not just supposed to attract tourists, but also investors. Perhaps it's a typical Lithuanian trait to destroy something and then mourn over the broken pieces. Thus the government recently struck a number of events from the 'Vilnius – European Capital of Culture' programme only to suddenly decide it was necessary to make Lithuania a more widely known name. But as far as flyLAL is concerned it has really demonstrated total incompetence."

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