Poland

The German government has approved a Polish request to hand over five Mikoyan MiG-29 “Fulcrum” fighters to Ukraine.

The Hungarian airline is returning to Lodz after almost a decade, while Bydgoszcz becomes a new point on the carrier’s route map.

The ULCC has scheduled more than 3.4 million departure seats from its two Milan bases during the winter 2022/23 season.

Three of the four new destinations are currently unserved from Warsaw.

Three new destinations are being added to the airline’s winter schedule from the Polish airport.

The event is heading to Lodz in 2023

Routes into and out of the Polish capital are set to be affected.

Spain is the most popular destination among Europeans, according to the European Travel Commission.

The airline will be the sole provider of direct service between Poland and Azerbaijan.

LOT Polish Airlines’ planned entry to the market comes four days before flydubai intends to begin service on the route.

The carrier, which continues to grow its European network, already serves Krakow.

Routes profiles LOT Polish Airlines, the Star Alliance member and Routes Reconnected attendee.

Kyiv is one of two destinations in the Ukraine that will be accessible nonstop from Łódź.

Nonstop service between the two cities last operated on a regular basis in October 2008.

Anna Midera, president and CEO of Łódź Airport Central Poland, explains how big data is helping the airport to rebuild its network and discusses what needs to happen across Europe to restore demand.

LOT Polish Airlines has its sights set on growth, with ambitious plans on both the short and long-haul fronts.

An announcement last month that LOT Polish Airlines will return its direct long-haul service between Kraków and Chicago from July 2017 after a seven year absence provides a fitting end to what will certainly be remembered as one of the most successful years in the airport’s history.

It was believed that Air China, one of the ‘Big Three’ in the country, was considering taking a considerable minority stake in LOT Polish Airlines. The Eastern European carrier has now denied this, claiming that any link with the Chinese carrier would be “simply commercial cooperation.”

The host of this year’s Routes Europe, Kraków’s John Paul II International Airport, has gained from Poland’s accession to the European Union and is now firmly established as the country’s second largest gateway.

The aviation sector in Poland plays an important role in the country’s economy and its network connectivity is unrecognisable today to that when the country joined the European Union in 2004, around 15 years after the end of communist rule. Routesonline investigates how point-to-point connectivity has helped put the country’s developing regional cities on the network map.

Most of the major European carriers will attend Routes Europe 2016 (23-26 April) in Kraków, with over 90 airlines already signed up for the event.

The Polish market has contributed significantly to Wizz Air's success with around 40 per cent of its phenomenal growth linked to Polish customers and visitors in and out of the country. Next year it will again play host to Routes Europe.