From November, Arkia airlines will operate direct flights on the Tel Aviv – Chisinau route. Ambassador of Moldova to Israel Alexandr Roitman and company director-general Gadi Tepper agreed on the decision on October 25. At the meeting, the parties pointed out the decrease in the number of direct flights between Tel Aviv and Chisinau, due…
A consortium of Vinci Airports and IFM Global Infrastructure Fund will invest in the Central Transportation Hub (CPK), the government representative for the CPK has announced. A flagship project of the current government, the Central Communication Port is a planned transport hub, due to be built between Warsaw and Lodz, which will encompass a brand-new…
A passenger train between Vilnius and Riga will start running early next year, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Marius Skuodis has said. It remains unclear whether the train would go via Siauliai in northern Lithuania or Daugavpils in Latvia. “Lithuania’s northern municipalities are showing great interest and willingness to have a passenger train running between…
RB Rail AS, the joint venture overseeing the planned high-speed Rail Baltic link across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has signed an agreement, which will bring it an additional EUR 1.1 billion from the European Cohesion Fund. This comes on top of co-financing from all three countries. The pan-Baltic states’ project has secured funding for construction…
Warsaw Metro will hand over to Kharkiv three subway trains, which totals 18 cars, as humanitarian aid, the Kharkiv City Council reports on Facebook. “The Executive Committee of the City Council made a decision on organizational measures to cooperate with the Warsaw Metro,” the report reads. As reported by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, acting chief of the…
Proposals to ban ultra-cheap airline tickets may be symbolic, but it would definitely affect air travel in the Baltic States, where budget airlines take up a particularly big share of the market. Less polluting modes of public transport, such as rail, are also relatively underdeveloped. Ten-euro plane tickets are simply no longer feasible, says the…
In connection with the current situation in Israel, Poland’s national air carrier LOT and the Hungarian low-fare airline Wizz Air have cancelled their flights to and from Tel Aviv planned for October 8. The Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel around 6:30 a.m. local time on October…