Katowice has a surprisingly large catchment area of about eight million people within a 50km radius and 13+ million within 100km. It is a major industrial area and is among Poland’s largest airports for freight. It is also the country’s leading airport for charter flights. It had 60+ charter routes in all-important summer. In the […]
November 21, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Central Europe’s biggest air travel market and a renowned battleground for (U)LCCs, Poland is dominated by Ryanair and Wizz Air. The pair have 56% of the country’s seats in April-September (Q2/Q3), according to Cirium schedules information data. When combined, they’re about twice the size of LOT Polish Airlines. Their fast growth has helped: Ryanair has […]
February 15, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
It has been a busy week for Wizz Air. During the last week (7-13 January) the carrier has, according to our research, launched 12 new routes including five to Saudi Arabia, two to Tel Aviv, two ski routes (to Grenoble and Lyon) and new routes to Malaga, Marsa Alam (first ever service) and Yerevan. Another […]
January 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Excluding the Russian domestic market, Poland had more passengers this summer than any other country across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Airport data collected by Air Service One for April-September shows that 11 of Poland’s busiest airports had 25.0 million passengers, down 12% versus 2019. Poland’s traffic was double that of Romania, the CEE’s second-largest […]
December 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Prior to the pandemic, Central Europe’s four busiest airports were Warsaw WAW (18.9 million passengers in 2019), Prague (17.8 million), Budapest (16.2 million) and Bucharest (14.7 million). According to ACI Europe figures they ranked 36th, 39th, 41st and 46th among all European airports. Three of them had grown by around 6% versus 2018, while Budapest […]
October 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Krakow in Poland became the latest European airport to have a non-stop service to New York JFK, when the first flight (LO 19 operated by Boeing 787-8 registration SP-LRG) departed the Polish airport at 13:06 on Saturday 26 June. Just over eight hours later, the aircraft arrived in the US at 15:14 local time, according […]
June 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +