Direct flights between Kraków and Chicago set to return

After a six-year absence, the president of LOT Polish Airways, Rafał Milczarski, announced on Monday that flights between Kraków and Chicago would begin in June of 2017, according to a report in the Polish press.  The CEO indicated that there has been a 17 percent annual increase in the number of air passengers between Chicago and Kraków since 2012. “We must not squander that potential,” he said. In response to net losses in recent years, the company implemented a ‘strategy of profitable growth,’ this year, of which the new Kraków-Chicago route is thought to be a part. In total, LOT launched 23 new destinations. It had cancelled direct flights between both New York and Chicago and the Małopolska capital in 2010.