Qatar Airways increases frequencies to Eastern Europe and the Nordics

QATAR Airways has doubled its frequencies to a number of destinations in Eastern Europe and the Nordics, following a significant increase in passenger demand to the popular destinations of Prague, Warsaw and Helsinki.

Commencing mid-December, the award-winning airline will introduce an extra daily flight on each of the routes to meet the growing inbound and outbound travel demand by adding an Airbus A320 service, offering an additional 132 daily seats in both directions.
  
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Up in the air …

WIZZ AIR has launched direct flights from Aberdeen to Warsaw. The service will operate the year-round twice weekly service on Monday and Fridays. 

Wizz Air arrived at Aberdeen Airport last year when it launched a twice-weekly service to Gdansk, Poland, in June.

EASYJET has recorded the busiest ski season in its history this year. With a 40 percent share of the UK ski market, easyJet carried 1.3 million passengers to destinations across Europe, 90,000 more than last year. New routes, good ski conditions, and a strong consumer demand have fuelled the growth in customer numbers, the airline said. 

easyJet operates ski flights to Lyon, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Grenoble, Friedrichshafen, Turin, and its largest gateway, Geneva.

ICELANDAIR will take its Glasgow to Reykjavik service daily on September 7. Currently it runs six flights a week between the cities.

Icelandair now offer services to 16 North American gateways with connections from six UK airports: London Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

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Ryanair expands winter network from Belfast and Newcastle

THREE new routes to #Poland are being introduced by #Ryanair from Belfast and Newcastle as part of expanded winter schedules from both airports. Gdansk, Warsaw, and Wroclaw are being added to the budget carrier’s network from the two airports for winter 2016-17.

These are in addition to seven new routes announced earlier from Belfast to Alicante, Berlin, Krakow, Lanzarote, Malaga, Milan, and Tenerife, as well as extra daily flights to Gatwick.

Ryanair’s chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs, said: ‘Our new Polish routes will be ideal for both business and leisure customers and we look forward to growing routes, traffic, and jobs in Belfast in the coming months and years.’

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Wizz Air reaches 100 million passengers milestone

WIZZ AIR has carried its 100 millionth passenger, 11 years after operating its first flight between Poland and Britain.

The 100 millionth passenger travelled on the Luton to Warsaw route, a milestone marked by the airline giving away free flights to all on board.

Chief executive József Váradi said: ‘We operated our first flight in 2004 between #Poland and the UK, and today, 11 years later, we celebrate a total of 100 million passengers carried from over 110 airports across 38 countries. We are celebrating at all our six Polish airport bases because 40% of our phenomenal growth was made with our Polish customers and their visitors.

‘We remain committed to grow passenger traffic in all the Polish regions we fly to, and to continuously offer our customers new opportunities to travel, whether on business, leisure, or to unite with their families.

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Dublin ‘best value’ for culture

#DUBLIN has leapfrogged the eastern European capitals of Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague to become the best value #destination for cultural break, according to research by Post Office Travel Money. 

Visits to six cultural attractions in Dublin – including Ireland’s National Museum, National Gallery and Trinity College and nights out – works out at just over £76, more than 25% cheaper than a year ago. 

London remains Europe’s most expensive city for culture after registering a 12.5% rise to £287.50 compared with last year, followed by Paris at £247.64.

But prices in both cities are far lower than in New York, where travellers can expect to pay £491.73. A category 2 ticket for the Metropolitan Opera will set UK visitors back £212 while the New York City Ballet costs more than £177.

Budapest has retained its position as second cheapest in the survey at £91.31 for the six cultural highlights, although prices are up 13.6% compared with a year ago. Lisbon scored with the third cheapest cost of £94.41. Warsaw, last year’s best bargain, has fallen to fourth place because prices have risen by 51%. Fifth-placed Prague has seen a 20% increase to £111.52.

Andrew Brown at Post Office Travel Money, said: ‘Last year we were advising holidaymakers to head east to Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague for the lowest-priced highbrow break.  Now Dublin has leapfrogged all three and looks a great bargain, especially as flights to the Irish capital are shorter and such good value, too.

‘Every city we surveyed boasts world-class cultural attractions, but the prices for these vary dramatically. This means culture vultures looking for good value can save hundreds of pounds by doing their homework before booking and swap expensive cities for cheaper ones.’

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Warsaw best value for culture vultures

Warsaw's Łazienki Palace
by Wojsyl - via Wikimedia Commons 

WARSAW offers holidaymakers in search of culture the best value for money, according to a Post Office study.

Six tickets to museums and galleries in the Polish capital cost £70 which compares with £223 in Vienna and Amsterdam, £242 in Barcelona and Paris, and £256 in London.

This was due in part to the current strength of sterling against the Polish zloty.

Pictured is Warsaw's Lazienki Palace,  Lazienki Park - this beautiful planned Palace-Garden, to where on any given Sunday half of Warsaw descends to take the traditional family stroll. Admission is free.

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