When Donald Tusk was prime minister for the first time (2007–2014), he flew by government plane from Warsaw to Tricity, where he lives. As “Super Express” wrote, in 2011, a government plane with the Prime Minister on board landed in Gdańsk as many as 80 times. Now “Fakt” has checked whether Tusk has returned to this practice.
“Fakt” checked how much Donald Tusk's office spent on organizing charter flights using PLL LOT machines. According to the information received by the editorial office, only from November 2023 to August 2025, over PLN 704,000 was spent on flights. zloty. This includes: for flights from the capital to Rzeszów, Kraków, Wrocław or Szczecin.
Charter flights are flights that are not included in the regular airline timetable and are organized by travel agencies, companies or other rental groups, adapting the route and time to the needs of the lessor.
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13 flights of Donald Tusk with HEAD status
The Prime Minister's Office also revealed that in 2024, Donald Tusk took 13 HEAD flights. It is assigned to aircraft when transporting the most important people in the country during official trips and diplomatic missions. They are usually related to meetings with foreign guests or extraordinary activities, e.g. of the crisis headquarters in Lower Silesia during a flood.
