2025-10-10 18:27
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2025-10-10 18:27
The Czech railway carrier RegioJet, which in September this year started the pilot of the national Kraków-Warsaw connection on December 14 this year. he also has to drive, among others, between Warsaw and Prague, stopping at Katowice Airport at the Pyrzowice Lotnisko stop.
Friday's entry by Piotr Rachwalski, member of the management board of CPK, on his Facebook profile is confirmed by information on the website regiojet.pl.
According to the carrier's earlier information, the timetable for 2025/26 envisages the launch of its six pairs of trains connecting Poznań with Warsaw, three pairs of trains between Gdynia and Krakow via Warsaw and six pairs of trains between Warsaw and Krakow. It will be complemented by a train from Warsaw to Prague.
According to the schedule posted on the RegioJet website, the company's train is scheduled to depart from the main station in Prague at 9.41, in Poland, go through Racibórz, Gliwice and Tarnowskie Góry, stop at the Pyrzowice Lotnisko stop at approx. 16 to reach Warsaw via Zawiercie and the Central Railway Line at approx. 18.
In the other direction, the train is scheduled to leave Warszawa Wschodnia at 9/01, be in Pyrzowice before 11.30, and then by, among others, Tarnowskie Góry, Gliwice, Racibórz, Ostrava, Olomouc and Pardubice reach Prague around 6.30 p.m.
RegioJet's information means that another railway carrier will stop at Katowice airport. Koleje Śląskie has been serving the local stop since the entry into force of the 2023/24 timetable on the S9 Częstochowa – Zawiercie – Pyrzowice Airport – Tarnowskie Góry route.
The S9 route of Koleje Śląskie uses the railway line No. 182 Zawiercie – Miasteczko Śląskie, the reconstruction of which was completed in 2023. During the first year, nearly 500,000 people used this connection of the regional carrier. passengers.
RegioJet is another Czech railway carrier that has announced its entry into the domestic rail connections market. In August this year Leo Express, which has been operating services on the Prague-Kraków route since 2018, announced that it will extend it to Warsaw from March 1, 2026.
Katowice Airport is one of the largest regional airports in Poland. Last year, 6.39 million passengers were served there, previously the record was set in 2023, when 5.61 million travelers were served. This year, the threshold of 7 million people served is expected to be exceeded. Katowice is the national leader in the charter traffic segment and one of the largest cargo airports in Poland. (PAP)
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