How to get to | Poland

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Poland

Source: Marcin Bialek

There are many ways to easily get to Poland - train, bus, car, Baltic ferry, or by air. Overland distances can be large with correspondingly long travel times. Several airlines fly to Poland (mostly Warsaw and Krakow), including:

• Star Alliance - Adria, Austrian, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, Swiss, TAP, Turkish
• Oneworld - British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Malev
• Sky Team - Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, Czech, KLM
• Other selected - some European low cost carriers

TIP Poland is good to include on alliance around the world tickets. On Star Alliance the LOT hub provides useful access to Eastern European destinations. On Sky Team and Oneworld, some connections to/from Asia without (much) back-tracking are available through Aeroflot and Finnair respectively.

TIP Longhaul fares from Poland can be relatively cheap compared with from some other Western European countries.