Ryanair CEO: We are negotiating with several Polish airports to increase the number of flights

Ryanair is negotiating with several Polish airports to increase the number of flights and passengers, announced the airline's CEO, Michael O'Leary. He added that from August 1st, the carrier will allow passengers to bring larger cabin bags on board for free.more

The Central Statistical Office estimates that in 2060 there will be 30.9 million of us. If not migration, then at present there is no other way to stop the depopulation of our country, said Professor Piotr Szukalski of the University of Łódź.more

The number of foreigners performing work in Poland at the end of January amounted to 1 million 45 thousand people, 4.5 per cent more year-on-year, the CSO reported.more

Representatives of Ryanair and Warsaw-Modlin Airport announced yesterday that they had signed a cooperation agreement. The airline's passenger numbers at the sub-Warsaw airport are expected to increase from 1.5 million a year to 5 million in 2030. The carrier will invest USD 400 million at the airport, increasing its fleet of aircraft to eight.more

A 110-year-old white elm from Szydłowiec in the Masovian Voivodeship has been named Tree of the Year 2025. The Bielsko ecological association Klub Gaja, which organised the online plebiscite, announced that the winner had collected 7,999 votes.more

Casimir the Great was named the best Polish king by the Polish History Museum. 25,000 votes were cast on the museum's website.more

Temporary border controls with Germany and Lithuania have been in place since midnight, during which Border Guard officers, supported by police and WOT soldiers, can stop selected vehicles for random checks. According to the government, the controls are necessary to reduce the uncontrolled flow of migrants.more

This winter season, Ryanair will offer 12 routes from Warsaw Chopin Airport, including six new ones, the carrier announced. The winter schedule will come into effect on October 27.more

The national system for counteracting financial crime was operating in an insufficient manner, the Supreme Chamber of Control assessed in a communiqué published on Wednesday. As it pointed out, Poland is among the top ten European countries with the highest risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.more

The Londynek.net editorial office is increasingly receiving reports of problems faced by our compatriots during passport control in Poland. This concerns people with dual citizenship, who are required to use only Polish documents when leaving the territory of the Republic of Poland.more

Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, President-elect Karol Nawrocki and Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski found themselves on the podium in the trust survey conducted by IBRiS on behalf of Onet. Fourth place went to outgoing President Andrzej Duda, and fifth to Confederation politician Sławomir Mentzen.more

According to an IBRiS survey conducted for the Onet portal, 43.6 percent of respondents fear the outbreak of a world war in the coming months.more

In the survey, as many as 40% of Poles declare that they will spend this year's holiday exclusively in Poland. This is more than twice as many as a year earlier, despite the fact that average accommodation prices are rising.more

The extreme poverty rate in Poland in 2024 was 5.2%, which means a decrease of 1.4 percentage points year-on-year - the Central Statistical Office reported today.more

Europe is rebuilding air traffic very slowly after the pandemic. The Turks were the quickest to do so, having built a new airport in Istanbul for this purpose. Poland and Warsaw Chopin Airport are also doing very well, "Rzeczpospolita" reported, citing a report by Airports Council International.more

Norway will once again send F-35 aircraft to patrol Polish skies this year, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced ahead of the second day of the NATO summit in The Hague. He had previously discussed the matter with Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik.more

There are at least 22 Polish-language channels with Russian disinformation on Telegram, followed by over 150,000 people, the BBC reported. Jakub Olchowski from UMCS emphasizes that there are many "truth seekers" in Poland, for whom Telegram is the main source of information.more

Poland’s culture ministry is preparing an emergency evacuation plan for the country’s most valuable artworks in the event of a Russian invasion, Culture Minister Hanna Wróblewska told the Financial Times.more

Poland is among the three cheapest EU countries in terms of household expenditure in 2024, according to Eurostat calculations.more

Social media, online video channels and influencers are increasingly becoming the main source of information about the world, according to a report by the Reuters Institute. In 2024, Poland, the US and Australia saw the largest increase in people getting news from the X platform.more

The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection is checking whether the method of verifying the dimensions of hand luggage and imposing fees for it at Ryanair and Wizz Air is in accordance with the law, the Office reported. It recalled that according to the CJEU, airlines should not charge an additional fee for "hand luggage of reasonable size and weight".more

52.7 per cent of respondents will not take part in the voluntary military training announced by the Ministry of Defence, while 41.2 per cent of respondents are willing to do so, reported yesterday's “Rzeczpospolita”, which cited an IBRiS poll on the matter.Poles are not thinking about military training. more

PKP Intercity hybrid trains will start operating from 2027, shortening travel times on partially electrified routes, said Janusz Malinowski, president of PKP Intercity. He added that this concerns 35 trains that are to enter service by 2029.more

The loyalty program for PKP Intercity passengers is to be ready in June next year - informed the president of PKP Intercity, Janusz Malinowski. He added that passengers will be able to receive tickets for points.more

There is an increase in the number of adopted children coming, among others, from Vietnam and South Africa. This is the result of foreigners settling in Poland, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

According to the majority of respondents, a man should let women through the door and know how to drive a car, while a woman should be well-groomed but not have too many sexual partners, according to a CBOS survey.more

Although the share of cashless transactions in Poland is steadily increasing and currently already three quarters of payments at retail and service outlets are made without cash, reports of the ‘death of cash’ are greatly exaggerated, pointed out Agnieszka Wachnicka, vice-president of the Polish Bank Association.more