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LOT Polish Airlines announced that it will launch three routes from Gdańsk Airport to Brussels, Oslo, and Bergen in April 2026. Flights to Istanbul will also begin in January.more

PKP Intercity will launch 17 new international connections in its new timetable, effective tomorrow (December 14), the carrier announced. One of the new additions will be a train from Przemysl to Leipzig, Germany.more

Poles traveling from home most often spend Christmas and New Year's Eve in the Sudetes, Małopolska, and the Baltic Sea, according to a data provider of a reservation system operating in Polish hotels. Packages that include several days of relaxation are highly sought after at the end of the year.more

Stansted Airport has issued a warning to passengers ahead of the busy Christmas travel period, with travellers urged to 'fly responsibly' or risk 'paying the price'.more

Heathrow faced anger from passengers and taxi drivers when it said its drop-off fees will go up from £6 to £7 in the New Year. Drivers who go over ten minutes will be hit by an £80 penalty charge, although this is reduced to £40 if paid within a fortnight. The same penalty applies to drivers who do not pay the £7 drop-off charge online before midnight the next day.more

Ryanair has announced that it will launch five new routes from Gdańsk Airport this summer. The Irish carrier will also add a sixth aircraft to its Gdańsk base.more

The UK has come a "step closer" to having direct, high-speed rail connections to Germany, the Department for Transport has said. A partnership between international train operator Eurostar and German national rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has "set the foundation" for a fast rail connection between Britain and Europe's largest economy, the businesses announced on Thursday.more

Edinburgh Airport has suspended all flights this morning, following an IT issue with its air traffic control provider. The airport - the busiest in Scotland - says it has teams working on the issue to try and resolve it as soon as possible.more

European budget airlines are preparing to return to Ukraine as soon as its airports are able to reopen for passenger flights. Wizz Air has said it plans to base 15 aircraft in Ukraine within two years of a peace agreement being reached, and that this number will rise to 50 within seven years, while Ryanair has said it could resume flights within two weeks of any deal being concluded.more

The budget carrier is scrapping its fee-paying Prime membership after discounts outweighed subscription revenue, even as rivals double down on travel subscriptions.more

Liverpool Street, the UK's busiest railway station, will shut for multiple days over the festive period - disrupting journeys for millions of people. National Rail is carrying out a second lot of engineering works from Christmas Day until New Year's Day, with services resuming on January 2.more

Airbus has announced that fewer than 100 aircraft from the A320 family remain out of service due to the need to update the flight control system software. This marks the end of one of the largest service campaigns in the company's 55-year history, announced after it was revealed that intense solar radiation could interfere with data critical to the functioning of control systems.more

On Friday, December 5th, Wizz Air will launch flights from Wrocław to the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, the carrier announced. Flights will operate twice a week – on Mondays and Fridays.more

A train service taking commuters from Manchester to London is to run empty for around five months following a decision by the rail regulator. A decision by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), means the 07:00 GMT service operated by Avanti West Coast from Manchester Piccadilly to London will still run but will only be used to carry staff from mid-December.more

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Incoming travellers who failed to comply were previously given a pass, but that option will come to an end February 2026. Visitors from 85 nationalities, including the United States, Canada and France, who do not need a visa will not be able to legally travel to the UK without an ETA.more

Wizz Air will launch four new routes from Poland in the 2026 summer season, including three to Rijeka, Croatia, and one to Rimini, Italy, the airline announced in a press release. Flights will begin between the end of March and the beginning of June next year.more

As of today (17 November), the Warsaw-Okęcie air border crossing has begun implementing the Entry/Exit System (EES) – a modern European system for registering the entry and exit of non-EU foreigners travelling for a short stay.more

Better and more frequent train services, higher flying taxes, concern about the environmental impact of flying, and changing work patterns - especially since COVID - have contributed to the change.more

Lublin Airport will gain a connection with Trapani in western Sicily starting next March. In October, the airport served nearly 39,000 passengers, over 14 percent more than during the same month last year.more

LOT Polish Airlines has launched ticket sales for a new route: Warsaw-Porto. The first flight to the Portuguese city will take place on May 25, 2026.more

The new annual train timetable will increase the number of connections operated by PKP Intercity to 555, of which 527 will be year-round and 28 seasonal, announced PKP Intercity CEO Janusz Malinowski. The new timetable will come into effect on December 14.more

The number of bookings for trips abroad for the Christmas and New Year's Eve period increased by 33 percent compared to last year, according to Wakacje.pl. Poles most frequently travel to Egypt, Malta, and the United Arab Emirates.more

Taking to the skies in its unmistakable white and orange aircraft, EasyJet is celebrating 30 years since its first ever flight from Luton Airport to Glasgow. Since 1995, the budget airline has massively grown its business and brand – in part thanks to the TV documentary Airline.more

From tomorrow (12 November), passengers will have to use a digital boarding pass generated in the app during check-in, Ryanair reminds us. This means that it will no longer be possible to download and print paper boarding passes for this airline.more