A national park in Poland’s southern Tatra mountains has completed testing of an electric bus that could replace horse-drawn carriages carrying tourists to Morskie Oko, a famous lake nestled between the mountains. The programme was run as part of an agreement between coachmen and animal rights groups following a widely publicised recent incident of a…
Polish airline LOT launched on June 3 a direct flight between the city of Oradea, in western Romania, and Warsaw. This gives the Romanians in this part of the country access to many destinations served by LOT from the Polish capital city, providing new international travel opportunities across Europe, Asia and North America. LOT will…
Wizz Air is expanding its operations from Varna Airport by introducing four new destinations and increasing the frequency of flights to existing ones. The low-cost airline plans to base a second aircraft at the airport to facilitate these additions. The new destinations include Frankfurt-Hahn in Germany, with flights scheduled twice a week, and Prague in…
Catherine Trautmann, who coordinates the Rail Baltic project at the European Commission, hopes that the first stage of railway construction will turn out to be cheaper than the estimated EUR 15 billion. At the same time, she stressed in an interview with ERR that the Baltic countries could not just wait for help from the…
According to the records in the eCherha (eQueue) system, 927,000 truck crossings and almost 81,000 bus crossings were registered. This covers the period from December 2022, when eCherha started operating at the largest border crossing point Yahodyn-Dorohusk, to May, when the service was launched at all key border crossing points for buses and trucks. The…
Poland is stepping up security measures around Rzeszow-Jasionka airport – the main transit hub for foreign aid to Ukraine – due to recent cases of sabotage that are believed to have been carried out on behalf of Russia. “We are facing a foreign state that is conducting hostile and – in military parlance – kinetic…
Although the three Baltic countries are trying to follow the increasingly loud demand from the European Commission to initially focus solely on the main route of Rail Baltica, the project’s budget is rising to over EUR 15 billion. It could be cheaper, but this would require passengers to transfer trains to travel to Riga, and…