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LOT Polish Airlines will launch two new seasonal routes from Warsaw Radom Airport, to Podgorica and Ohrid next summer. The new service to the Montenegrin capital will be inaugurated on June 23 and run once per week, each Sunday, until September 29, alongside daily rotations from Warsaw Chopin, with further details available here. A day later, on June 24, the Polish carrier will commence a one weekly service to Ohrid, operating each Monday, until September 23, with further flight information here. Tickets for both new routes are now available for purchase through the airline’s website.
Located 110 kilometres from central Warsaw, Warsaw Radom became Poland’s fifteenth operational airport this year. Although it has been in use since the 1920s, when it served as a military base, the airport was repurposed for and in 2015 welcomed its first commercial flights. However, due to poor demand, operations were discontinued shortly after. In 2018, Radom Airport declared bankruptcy and was acquired by Poland’s state-owned airport operator that decided to shut it down, demolish its terminal and build a new one. It re-marketed the airport as Warsaw Radom with the aim to alleviate congestion at Warsaw Chopin and serve as a back-up to the New Central Polish Airport, a proposed megaproject that plans to become the Polish capital’s main airport in 2027.
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They are trying to add leisure flights like this to Radom, plus entice tourist agencies to use it but tbh its not working very well, due to the fact that people from Warsaw dont want to drive 1.5h to Radom when they have an airport(Chopin) in the city. I guess for people from Radom the airport is great. BTW there is also a similar airport in Lodz, 1.5h away that is empty as well. Only 45-min away Modlin airport is kinda successful but its exclusively used by Ryanair
Flights are one weekly, so probably a bigger equipement with lower cost per seat will be used than on flights from WAW where frequency matters. Anybody knows?
1. When the airport was inaugurated 3 destinations were planned by LOT: Copenhagen, Rome FCO and Paris CDG.
2. Copenhagen was cancelled before the first flight.
3. Rome FCO operated 4 pw. Now they are reduced to 3 pw.
4. Recently LOT re-inaugurated Rome FCO from WAW 1-2 flights daily.
5. Paris CDG operated 3 pw. The Last flight planned for early Jan2024.
6. Seasional flights to Tirana, Preveza, Varna, Tirana were operated 1 pw in summer 2023.
Facts? This past September, sincerely yours flew PVK-RDO to connect to WAW-JFK. RDO? Brand new: nuovo di zecca. Wait time for luggage at RDO? 45 mins. Please kindly note, there were just two planes (including ours) landing within a 90 mins window. And then... there was a free bus shuttle paid by/courtesy of LO from RDO to WAW. In a 50-seats pullman there were 4 ppl including ...its driver. Even if economics is a social science, it is hard not to mention it. Cheers!