EC wants open skies over Poland

The European Commission has proposed that Poland, along with other European Union (EU) candidate countries, speed up liberalization of the aviation business. Under the adjusted agreement concerning creation of the European Open Skies Area, which is to be signed this summer, domestic and European companies could operate without limits throughout Europe as soon as March 2003. The liberalization would not only allow LOT to compete with its counterparts in other countries of the region but would also reduce ticket prices, particularly for routes from Warsaw to major airports like Frankfurt, London, or Paris, and to holiday resorts in the Mediterranean. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) M.K.