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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

A new sleeper train will enable passengers to travel from London to Berlin in 16 hours. 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. more

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. more

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. more

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

Return tickets could be scrapped in demand-based system as part of wider reforms to ‘broken model’, says transport secretary.more

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

The cost of applying for a new British passport has risen from £75.50 to £82.50.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

The ongoing strike by air traffic controllers in Spain yesterday led to numerous flight delays at the country's 16 airports.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. more