The German air carrier Eurowings demanded payment of PLN 120,000 from climate activists from the Letzte Generation group. euro compensation for blocking airports. Activists including: they stuck to the runways.more
From December 13 this year Wizz Air will inaugurate a connection from Radom airport to Larnaca in Cyprus, the Hungarian airline announced. Flights will be operated twice a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays.more
Hand luggage is an essential item for traveling and should not be charged additional fees, says the European Union, which adopted a resolution on this matter last week. Appropriate legislative work is already being prepared by the European Commission and - as could be expected, this was met with opposition from the low-cost airline Ryanair.more
LOT Polish Airlines will start flying on the Rzeszów-Milan route in Italy from 4 November this year, the company has announced. The route will be operated until 23 March 2024. The flights will be carried out by an Embraer aircraft.more
British Airways announced yesterday that it had suspended flights to Israel after one of its planes was turned around shortly before landing in Tel Aviv. Virgin Atlantic airlines made a similar decision.more
The Hungarian airline Wizz Air still has three planes at the Kiev airport that it cannot recover due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hvg.hu reports. However, the engines of two of them have already left Ukraine and went to Poland.more
According to the carrier, citing data from the booking system covering the period from July 1 to September 30, 27% of passengers traveled to Spain. people, to Italy - 19 percent, and to Greece - 15 percent. Croatia came in fourth place - 10%.more
The Dutch military police (Koninklijke Marechaussee) arrested six men on Wednesday evening at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, who were arguing on board a plane that arrived from Poland, Koninklijke Marechaussee reported. According to the spokesman of the gendarmerie, all those detained are Poles.more
Ryanair will offer new flight connections from Poznan to Portuguese Lisbon and Cypriot Paphos in the winter season. The carrier also announced that it would increase the frequency of flights from Poznan airport to the most popular destinations.more
From October 31, passengers traveling from Gdańsk to Stockholm will arrive at the main international airport Arlanda in Stockholm, Wizz Air announced. The connection will be made twice a day.more
France will seek support from other EU countries for a minimum price on flights in Europe in a bid to reduce the aviation sector's contribution to climate change, Transport Minister Clement Beaune has said.
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Ireland's Ryanair will reduce the number of flights from Modlin Airport by 20 percent in the upcoming winter season; more routes will be from Chopin Airport, as well as from Lodz and Lublin, the carrier said. In winter, Ryanair will launch a new route from Chopin Airport to Manchester.more
France believes that airfares in the EU are too low because they do not serve climate protection. Paris therefore wants the European Union to introduce minimum ticket prices and announces an initiative to do so. "Ticket prices regulated by the EU are an anti-market measure, against the logic of competition." - EP budget committee member Bogdan Rzonca (Law and Justice) believes.more
Ryanair airline CEO Michael O'Leary was hit in the face with a cake by climate activists yesterday. "This is the warmest welcome I've ever encountered in Belgium," the Irish carrier's chief executive told reporters, commenting on the incident, which took place in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.more
Airlines could face a crackdown on hidden fees, as part of a new government plan to improve transparency for people shopping online. A public consultation will look at ways to clamp down on firms that add necessary charges at checkout, bumping up the final price.more
The UK air traffic system failure that resulted in more than 2,000 flights being cancelled has been blamed on “an extremely rare set of circumstances”, as the aviation regulator opened an inquiry into the meltdown that caused chaos for passengers.more
A U.S. Delta airlines plane en route to Barcelona had to turn back to Atlanta due to, as the pilot put it, "a biohazard problem." According to the media, one of the passengers was suffering from diarrhea, the BBC News website reported.more
A 'minimum price for airline tickets' should be introduced in the European Union so that the price of flights reflects social and environmental costs, French Transport Minister Clement Beaune announced in an interview with the weekly magazine L'Obs published yesterday.more
Due to the hurricane-force winds that have been lingering over the Balearic Islands since Sunday, as well as the failure of the UK's air traffic control system, chaos reigns at the Spanish archipelago's major airports, with tourists queuing in the corridors.more
The Turkish carrier Corendon Airlines, following the example of some non-European airlines, announced the introduction of zones on its planes only for passengers over 16 years of age. "Child-free zones" are to appear in the fall, initially only on one route.more
