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Ryanair continues to expand in Poland

PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle 21.10.2014 09:21
The Irish-based airline has already grown to become the market leader.

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Ryanair expects that in 2014 it will have served 7 million passengers in Poland, including some 2 million through the Modlin Airport near Warsaw.

The airline currently operates on more than 100 connections from Poland, mostly to the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany, which are typical migration routes.

“There is a lot to be done, though there has been a visible growth in airline passenger numbers in Poland in the last few years,” Juliusz Komorek from the airline's management board told Polish Radio.

The company plans to increase the number of Polish passengers it carries to 15 million over the next five to ten years.

For the past few years, Ryanair has been developing connections to holiday destinations in the south of Europe. Next year it plans to launch flights from Warsaw to Crete, Lisbon, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands and Sicily.

“The second direction to develop is in domestic flights,” Komorek said. Ryanair now flies from Warsaw to Wroclaw and Gdansk and it plans to have two flights daily on each of these connections starting from December.

In three years' time the airline plans to have 10 domestic connections in Poland.

Komorek added that ten years ago, only about 10 million Poles travelled by air each year. Now the figure has surpassed 25 million and in the next five to ten years it is expected to reach 50 million. (kw)

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