Passenger traffic at European airports last year almost returned to the period before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe) report. The European airports organization points out that airport attendance almost doubled in 2022 compared to the previous year, reaching 1.94 billion passengers.more
PKP Intercity is lowering ticket prices starting March 1 this year. Base prices for TLK and IC category connections will be on average about 11 percent lower than those currently in force, while for EIC and EIP categories - about 15 percent lower on average. - informed the carrier in yesterday's announcement.more
Poles have started planning this year's trips en masse. Interest, as expressed by the number of searches on the travel organization platform eSky.pl, has doubled compared to January 2022. Most often, Poles on eSky.pl choose to travel within Europe, booking both short city-breaks and longer vacations during the holiday season.more
Gardaí are to dramatically ramp up the practice of travelling to international airports to ensure those seeking refuge in Ireland are boarding planes with the correct travel documents. A senior Government source has confirmed gardaí have already been travelling to a small number of mostly European countries after examining patterns and flows of people coming into Ireland, but that this is going tmore
PLL LOT's Dreamliner, which flew from Chopin Airport to Zanzibar yesterday due to a defect, was returned to Chopin Airport, LOT spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski informed. He added that the plane continued to Zanzibar after the defect was repaired.more
An abandoned airport just outside London could soon reopen to passenger flights. Manston Airport in Kent was closed back in 2014 after reporting huge losses but could reopen and offer cheap flights to holiday hotspots under new plans.
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A pair of climate activists who were glued to the road, blocking traffic in defence of the environment, flew to Bali on holiday by plane. The case came to light as the young people failed to show up for a court hearing on the blockade, the Bild newspaper portal described, highlighting the activists' double standards.more
A couple from Belgium wanted to leave their child at an airport in Israel when they were told to buy an additional ticket, reports the daily "Het Nieuwsblad". "All employees were shocked," stressed a Ryanair representative.more
Nearly 612,000 passengers were handled by Krakow Airport in January. This is 89 per cent more than in January a year ago, and 20 per cent more than in pre-pandemic January 2019.more
A drunk passenger flying LOT's Dreamliner from the United States to Warsaw took off his trousers and underpants and urinated on the plane's door. He has been blacklisted and will never fly the airline again, PLL-LOT spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski wrote on Twitter.more
Passengers on a Wizz Air flight from Morocco are unable to fly back to Poland for the second day, Poles waiting to return reported last night. According to them, the airline does not say when the damaged plane will be ready to fly and they will return to the country.more
Air France has cancelled 10 per cent of its short- and medium-haul flights due to strikes and protests in France announced today against the government's pension reform, the airline announced yesterday. Long-haul flights are to operate normally.more
Regional UK airline Flybe declared bankruptcy yesterday - a flood of nine months after it resumed operations. Around 75,000 passengers were affected by its bankruptcy, 2,500 of whom had tickets for flights scheduled for yesterday.more
Passengers are more likely to have a less crowded journey if they travel on Mondays rather than mid-week, analysis of latest travel trends has revealed.
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Planes of the airline Ryanair are returning to Warsaw Chopin Airport after a four-year hiatus, the airline announced in an announcement yesterday. So far, the closest airport to Warsaw from which Ryanair flies is Modlin.more
The boss of Eurostar has said its trains between the UK and Paris are carrying 30% fewer passengers. Chief executive Gwendoline Cazenave said with post-Brexit border checks and current levels of border staff, there were "bottlenecks" in stations.more
Manchester Airport has been named the worst airport by Which? with all three terminals featuring at the bottom of the best and worst airports in the UK list.
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LOT Polish Airlines is cancelling flights between Warsaw and Berlin tomorrow due to a warning strike announced for that day at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER), the carrier's spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski announced today.more
A Ryanair plane flying from Katowice to Athens, in which a bomb alert was reported, landed safely in the Greek capital, assisted by Greek fighters. Earlier, the pilot reported a bomb threat. The spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Łukasz Jasina, said the alarm was false.more
Manchester Airport has resumed operations after both runways had to close for more than two hours due to heavy snow.
It said passengers' health and safety would "always be our top priority".more