Air connections restored

A new Wroclaw-Copenhagen air connection will open at the start of May. Planes will fly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The first flight will be serviced by SAS's most modern plane CRJ900 with 90 seats on board, spokesman for the Wroclaw airport Dariusz Kus told PAP on Thursday. Successive flights will be serviced by CRJ200 jet planes with 50 seats. The travel will last 80 minutes with ticket prices starting from PLN 315, Kus said.

SAS airlines serviced Wroclaw - Copenhagen flights between 1998 and 2002.

The Mikolaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) airport in Wroclaw offers regular flights to some 30 European airports including Rome's Ciampino, Paris' Beauvais and Oslo's Torp. In 2011 the airport will have a new terminal.

A direct air connection will be restored as of May between Cracow and Chicago (the US) and Hamilton (Canada). It will be serviced by Air Italy Polska charter carrier.

As of May 25 planes will fly to Chicago twice a week: on Mondays and Wednesdays and as of May 27 to Hamilton - once a week: on Fridays.

The route will be serviced by Boeing 767-200 with 241 seats in economy class and 12 seats in business class. The plane belongs to Air Italy Poland connected with Air Italy Group but the crew will be Polish.

Air Italy Polska CEO Mariusz Szpikowski said that the transatlantic Boeing 767-200 will be parked at the Cracow airport. Apart from flights to Chicago and Hamilton it will service vacation charter flights to the Caribbean.

Cracow lost direct connections with Chicago and New York last October when after 13 years they were closed by PLL LOT. (km)

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