Air Polonia takes off with a flying start

Low cost air carrier, Air Polonia has yesterday inaugurated its flights from Warsaw to Gdańsk and Wrocław. The number of passengers on first morning flights amounted to between 34 and 52, filling up an average of 25% of available seats. Jan Litwiński, Air Polonia general director, said that the number of passengers on this route is in accordance with his estimations, however connections from Katowice, Poznań, and Warsaw to London has definitely exceeded all expectations. According to him, several thousand tickets were sold, and for some flights all seats are taken. The carrier plans to introduce flights to Rome, Athens and Madrid in the summer. In related news, Silesian Air, owner of GetJet, announced plans to lease Airbus planes from abroad, as part of its battle against long procedures to register Airbus planes which are not used by any domestic carrier. "The Civil Aviation Office (ULC) has to train people to have competencies to register such planes. The training, the costs of which are party covered by Silesian Air, is not yet finished," said GetJet's spokesman Adam Warzech. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1; Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.K.