Originally Posted by
Sjoerd
I can imagine three markets:
1) Polish people living in Western NL travelling "home";
2) Dutch tourists to the fair city of Krakow and surrounding areas (Zakopane, Wieliczka, Auschwitz);
3) Polish people connecting in AMS to USA, Canada, Africa, South America, Asia (KLM offers several destinations that LH doesn't offer)
You can also add passengers connecting from other airports, including the UK (FR fares to KRK from British airports are often
not-so-low-cost).
That aside, Poland is a big Country and poorly served by the Sky Team network overall and it was about time that a further destination (other than WAW) was added (as we speak, I seem to remember that, amongst ST airlines, only AZ -or perhaps OK?- do fly to KRK). Above all (Polish people travelling home, Zakopane etc.), this new route will provide access to the Southern part of the Country, which was obviously lacking up to now.
G