Sofia Airport has been awarded a Level 4 certificate for reducing carbon emissions (Airport Carbon Accredited Level IV – Transformation), announced the concessionaire company. This places Sofia Airport among only eight other European airports with this accreditation, including Istanbul’s new airport and the Parisian airports Charles de Gaulle, Bourget and Orly, as well as Marseille,…
There is a shortage of money for Rail Baltica. However, excluding Riga from it would mean giving money to Estonia, said Mayor of Riga Vilnis Kirsis in an interview to Latvijas Radio. During this interview, he agreed the municipality was concerned that if no money were found, Riga might end up with numerous unfinished construction…
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…