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…
Ryanair has announced plans to base its fourth aircraft at Sofia Airport and introduce flights to five new destinations this summer season. The airline’s expansion will see the addition of routes to Valencia, Alicante, Bristol, Copenhagen and Skiathos, bringing the total number of destinations served by Ryanair from Sofia to 40. The decision to invest…
Wizz Air, the fastest growing airline in Europe and the most environmentally sustainable in the world, has announced the launch of a new flight route: Sofia to Heraklion. Flights from the bustling capital of Bulgaria to the cultural treasure of the island of Crete will start in June, and tickets are already on sale at…
After two Finnair aircraft were forced to turn around due to interference with GPS signals from Russia, the Baltic foreign ministers warned this could lead to an aviation disaster. On April 25-26, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu were forced to turn around and return to Finland, as they were…