More than 250,000 passengers used Katowice Airport in February, including nearly 60,000 in the charters segment, the port's press service reported yesterday. February 2023 brought the best result in the charters segment in the history of this month in Katowice.more
EasyJet, Ryanair and Jet2 have warned passengers of delays amid strikes in France. Industrial strike action will start this afternoon across airports in France. They will continue until Friday, March 10. more
Polish Airlines forecast that they will generate over PLN 100 million in profit in 2022. Last year, the national carrier carried 8 million passengers, performing over 85,000 flights. flights, the company said.more
Paris is the city most often visited by people traveling alone, reports the Belgian daily "Le Soir", referring to the research of the Airbnb booking platform. The top three in this category also include New York and London.more
London City Airport has revealed that it is scrapping the 100ml liquid rule for baggage, starting from the end of March just in time for the Easter holidays. more
The owner of British Airways is poised to bank hundreds of millions of pounds owed to passengers after they failed to rebook flights cancelled during Covid.
Customers have until September to use €911m (£800m) of "IOUs" issued during the pandemic by IAG, the FTSE 100 airlines group that also includes Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling – with any unclaimed money then written off.more
As of tomorrow, March 1, PKP Intercity's ticket prices will drop to levels from before the increase introduced on January 11 this year. Base prices for TLK and IC category connections will be about 11 percent lower on average, while for EIC and EIP categories they will be about 15 percent lower on average.more
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will suspend all flights to and from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, as of March 14 for security reasons, the carrier said yesterday in a statement cited by Reuters.more
Polish airports will serve nearly 44.7 million passengers this year; that's about 91 percent of the passengers from 2019, the last year before the pandemic, Civil Aviation Authority President Piotr Samson forecasts. Risks to the estimate include the war in Ukraine and global macroeconomic conditions, he adds.more
More than 6,500 weapons were found in passenger luggage at all US airports in 2022, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Monday. On average, this is 18 pieces a day, which is a record year in this respect in the USA.more
The majority (55 per cent) of adult Poles declare that they intend to travel for at least two days for leisure or tourism purposes this year, according to a CBOS survey published yesterday. Compared to the plans declared in January last year, this is a decrease of 1 percentage point for 2022.more
A Polish musician was forced to take an eight-hour coach journey, as opposed to a one-hour flight, after the airline demanded he store his €5 million Stradivarius violin in the hold.
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Major German airports - Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg - announced the cancellation of all passenger flights tomorrow. The reason is an all-day strike announced by the trade unions, a Lufthansa spokeswoman confirmed.more
In the summer season, Ryanair airlines will launch four new connections from Poznań Ławica Airport to ports in Burgas, Bari, Paphos and Krakow, the carrier announced on Tuesday. The company also announced more frequent flights to Bergamo, Zadar and Alicante, among others.more
UK holidaymakers heading overseas this Easter will typically have to pay 72% more to hire a car than they did just before the coronavirus pandemic, data shows.
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Bangkok, Antalya and Singapore are the most disappointing tourist destinations, reported the Belgian daily Le Soir. The newspaper published a list of ten cities that did not meet the expectations of visitors.more
142 thousand votes gave Warsaw the victory in the "European Best Destination 2023" competition. Internet users from over 130 countries voted for the capital of Poland. 21 European cities participated in the plebiscite. Warsaw defeated, among others, Athens, Vienna, Prague, Copenhagen or Maribor, the capital city hall announced yesterday.more
Nearly one in three Poles who will spend their vacation abroad with a travel agency this year will choose Turkey. The country's popularity was not diminished by the tragic earthquake, "Rzeczpospolita" reported yesterday.more
The all-consuming app is rolling out a new feature called ‘Immersive view’, which is a bit of a game-changer when it comes to browsing far-off (or local) places from your phone.
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Belfast, Lourdes, Memmingen, Perugia, Rhodes, Toulouse, Varna and Poznan are new destinations in Ryanair's route network from Krakow-Balice Airport. Flights on these routes will begin at the end of March.more
We plan to serve around 300,000 passengers on five new routes from Chopin Airport this summer season, the head of Irish Ryanair Michael O'Leary announced. The carrier is returning to the capital's airport after four years with routes to Alicante, Brussels, Vienna, Mallorca and Paphos.more
The Booking.com platform has prepared a list of the 10 friendliest cities in the world. Their research shows that tourists for whom hospitable people and a friendly atmosphere are important elements of a rewarding holiday should head to the Italian city of Polignano a Mare.more