New regional airline

Jan Szcepkowski, the president of Skyexpress, announced last weekend that the company is launching Direct Fly, a new airline brand with eight connections between six major Polish cities and two foreign destinations. The first planes will take off on April 11.

"Our offer is directed at passengers who don't like to overpay, and the lack of comfort offered by low-cost carriers is the last resort for them," says deputy president Sławomir Decewicz. The average price of Warsaw-Wrocław flights will be zł.314 and will range between zł.119 and zł.399, excluding airport taxes, which at Polish airports amount to around zł.30. 

"Direct Fly has 10 34-passenger Saab 340 planes," says Sebastian Stępak, a spokesperson for Direct Fly. The new airline will regularly fly to Kraków, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Wrocław, Łódź, and Bydgoszcz, as well as Copenhagen and Berlin and offer charter flights from Rzeszów to Lviv and Kiev.

Tickets will initially be available on www.directfly.pl and through a call center. The company is also preparing a special offer for corporate customers. A single ticket with an 'air-karnet' subscription card for 20 Gdańsk-Warsaw flights will cost zł.269 and for 40 flights zł.249.