On April 12, the first inaugural LOT LOT cruise from the Warsaw Chopin airport to the Reykjavik-Keflavik (KEF) International Airport took place. The National Carrier was preparing from 2023 to launch this new destination. Then the new direction was included in the presentation of the development strategy from the line.
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As the National Carrier explained, Flights will take place four days a week during the summer, and during the winter season – three times a week. Cruises to Iceland last 4 hours 20 minutes, and back – 4 hours. “In the winter season, flights will last respectively 15 and 5 minutes longer,” said in a message, which was published in mid -December 2024. LOT emphasizes that Iceland is known as a land of ice and fire – with a unique landscape, wild nature and an extraordinary history.
PLL LOT has launched a new connection. There is an extremely large Polonia in this country
As the “Aviation Market” notes, on the scale of air traffic between Poland and other countries, the number of passengers from our country to Iceland is not significant. According to the Keflavik airport data cited by the “aviation market”, In 2024, over 108 thousand were recorded. travelers declaring Polish nationality. Interestingly, this number was about 30,000 lower than in 2023. (comparable: Movement from Poland to the Czech Republic is over 358,000 people, over 578 thousand for Malta, and over 7.7 million travelers per year to Great Britain).
As explained by Maciej Duszyński, head of the Political and Economic and Cultural Department of the Polish Embassy in Reykjavik, with which the “Aviation Market” talked,, “The number of Poles in Iceland is estimated at about 30,000 people.” This is about 8 percent. societies, However – as Duszyński explains – “looking at it from the statistical side, percentage (because not in absolute numbers) is the largest Polonia in the world, in percentage of the whole society.”
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In 2025, Polish Airlines LOT has already inaugurated several new connections (including Warsaw to Lisbon and from Krakow to Paris), and in mid -April planes of the national carrier will also fly to Malta for the first time, while in June – to Greece.
