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Season 5 - 030 - Saulius Batavicius, CEO of Oro Navigacija - Balloons stopping traffic at Vilnius airport and update about ATM in Lithuania

November 18, 2025 • Global Airspace Radar • Season 5 • Episode 30

Smugglers use balloons to illegally carry cigarettes form Belarus to Lithuania and those balloons disturb the traffic at Vilnius airport! Vincent Lambercy discusses this with Saulius Batavicius, the CEO of Lithuanian ANSP Oro navigacija. Is this only smuggling or is there more behind that?

Saulius also discusses how the ANSP works in the Borealis alliance and also with iTEC for the technical side. He explaines how to improve ATCO mobility and get other benefits from such international collaborations.

Finally, Saulius shares his views on how technology and humans work together today and how this could change in the future.