Ostrava’s international airport may have lost most of its passenger routes in recent months, but LOT Polish Airlines has announced that it will begin regular service to Warsaw. The flight will take off daily except for Sundays and Wednesdays at 5:30 a.m. in order to allow passengers to make many of the connecting flights to other European destinations LOT offers every morning. In order to promote use of the airport, the Moravia Silesia region will provide a bus link from Ostrava’s main train station that leaves at 3:43 a.m. The transport news server zdopravy.cz writes that previously, flights to Warsaw took place during the day, making it more difficult to make connections to the rest of Europe. Now, the plan is to have a LOT Embraer E170 aircraft fly into Ostrava just before midnight with passengers and spend the night there. The airport was virtually cut off from the rest of the world when Ryanair cancelled its flights to London for the winter and refused to commit to renewing them for the coming summer season.
