SkyEurope prepares to take off from Kraków

Published: 12 August 2004 y., Thursday
SkyEurope, the Slovak budget carrier, will start to offer flights from Kraków airport in September. The company has already started selling tickets for the flights from Kraków to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan and hopes that within a year around 200,000 passengers will fly with them. The company also confirmed that it plans to invest zł.20 million in Poland and wants to employ around 100 people this year. "Our presence in Warsaw and Kraków is the next stage of our development," said the SkyEurope's president Alain Skowronek. The company's managing director Christian Mandl stated that Poland is a strategic and perspective market for SkyEurope and added that the carrier plans to launch low cost flights between Polish cities. SkyEurope operates in 12 European countries and offers flights to 19 cities. This year it hopes to fly a million passengers, including 200,000 Poles. This year's revenues should total around EUR75 million.
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