The capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship is among the "most underrated cities in Europe", and also worth visiting this year, in the list prepared by the luxury travel magazine "Conde Nast Traveler". The list of 22 such places was prepared on the basis of interviews with experts and journalists from all over Europe.more
Qantas Airways booked a 13-month-old baby onto a separate flight to her parents, who were trying to get home to Australia. After nearly four weeks of traveling around Europe, Stephanie and Andrew Braham told Insider they had an amazing time, until they arrived at Rome-Fiumicino International Airport in Italy.more
Today, even five or six hours have to be waited on the British side for the ferry crossing the English Channel. According to the British media, traffic jams stretch for miles before reaching Dover.more
"Long queues for check-in and nomadic crowds, and the flights are and will be delayed or canceled. Such conditions must be taken into account by anyone who decides to travel by air this summer" - believes today's Rzeczpospolita.more
Airline tickets will be much more expensive, and flight cancellations will become the new standard, says insurance company Allianz Trade in the latest report. "If the plane is not filled enough, carriers prefer to simply cancel the flight," added Johan Geeroms, Benelux Director of Risk Insurance at Allianz Trade, quoted by Belgian daily Het Nieuwsblad.more
Luton Airport near London, where heatwaves sweeping through the UK damaged the runway yesterday, has resumed flight arrivals and departures after less than three hours, but there are still long delays.more
As a result of the Ryanair workers’ strike on Monday in Spain, 146 flights were canceled or delayed, the Diario Sur website said, explaining that both flights between Spanish cities and international connections were involved.more
Prices of connections are at record levels. Customers are paying even several times more than at the beginning of the year, and this means a real harvest for the carriers, writes "Rzeczpospolita" today.more
Emirates Airlines has agreed to cap sales of its flights out of Heathrow until mid-August, after the airport asked carriers to scale back capacity.
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Tens of thousands of flights have been cancelled since April and airports are struggling with strikes and staff shortages. The International Airports Council (ACI) predicts that delays will be unavoidable at two-thirds of European airports this summer. In July, travellers in Germany and the UK were worst affected.more
People trying to travel on London Underground were hit with disruption even before 8am this morning as the capital prepares for a potentially unprecedented heatwave.
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Thanks to the discovery of 17 original carriages of the famous Orient Express in Poland, the iconic train between Paris and Istanbul could return to the tracks again in 2024, in time for the summer Olympics in the French capital, Timeout reported yesterday.more
The Canadian government has reinstated random testing of travellers arriving in Canada, suspended in June. Testing on Covid-19 will be conducted outside airport buildings, it was announced in yesterday's announcement.more
German airlines Lufthansa announced the cancellation of another 2,000. flights during the holiday season, mainly short domestic connections. This is the third wave of canceled flights, which has only taken place since the end of June.more
The British daily "The Guardian" encourages you to visit Poland, emphasizing that apart from the attractions it offers, it is now also a way to support those who heroically help Ukrainian refugees.more
Heathrow Airport has told airlines to stop selling summer tickets, as the UK's biggest airport struggles to cope with the rebound in air travel. The airport is limiting the number of passengers who can depart each day over the peak summer months to 100,000, 4,000 fewer than currently scheduled.more
Dozens of flights to or from Spain have been cancelled today as a result of a strike by cabin crew from passenger airlines EasyJet and Ryanair, which began in the morning. The protest will continue until Friday.more
Since the beginning of the year, border guards have carried out 258 interventions at airports in connection with left luggage and 124 interventions on board of planes in relation to failure to comply with the captain's orders - said the spokeswoman of the Border Guard, Lieutenant Anna Michalska.more
Airline tickets will undoubtedly become more expensive as fuel costs increase, said Willie Walsh, CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and former head of British Airways, in an interview with the BBC.more
An aperitif by the setting sun by the sea, dancing on the sand, lounging on the beach on a big bed under a royal canopy or relaxing on a modern campsite - this is how you can spend your summer in Italy's most holiday region, Emilia-Romagna.more
54 percent Poles are planning a holiday trip in the period July - September, 76 percent want to spend a holiday in the country, at the same time, more than 80% respondents declare that they organize their own holidays - according to the research of the Research Partner company.more
Dutch airline KLM has announced that it will be cancelling between 10 and 20 flights a day from Friday 8 July until the end of August. The carrier cited operational problems at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport as the reason.more