Bon Voyage from Toruń's Closest Airport!

Extreme close-up!

A Ryanair 737 plane from Dusseldorf

View across the apron

View of the control tower

These images were taken at Bydgoszcz Airport which is the closest International airport to Toruń. It used to be a military base and is hidden within a forest. There used to be a lot more flights from here but sadly many of the routes have been withdrawn. You can still fly Ryanair to London Stansted, Birmingham, Dublin and Dusseldorf. LOT Polish Airlines offers domestic flights to Warsaw.

It's fitting that we have these images today. As very soon TORUŃ DAILY PHOTO will be jetting off once again for the summer (amazing how this year has gone by already!). We will be back again in early September.

Have a fantastic summer!

The End of Ryanair in Bydgoszcz?

Financial disputes have cast an air of uncertainty over the future of Ryanair flights from Bydgoszcz airport. The latest is that Ryanair will suspend all their flights from the airport from the end of June. If that's the case it will be a major spanner in the works for Toruń's tourism which does depend on Bydgoszcz being it's closest airport (albeit a minor one).

Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport (http://www.plb.pl/index.php?lang=en), lies about 45kms west of Toruń (accessible by train, coach or bus connections). Situated in a clearing in a forest, the airport has daily flights to London Stansted, Dublin, Düsseldorf-Weeze, Liverpool, Birmingham, East-Midlands and Bristol.

The plane in the top image was the inaugural Ryanair flight from Bristol to Bydgoszcz which took place 3 days ago. TORUŃ DAILY PHOTO were on board for the occassion!! A great service...will be a big shame if it all disappears due to bloody money!!!