As you may already
know on Tuesday, October 28th Wizzair inaugurated a new route from Groningen
to Gdańsk. I had the pleasure of taking the first flight connecting these two
beautiful northern cities.
The management of
the Groningen Airport Eelde held of course a press conference. Local and polish
media in the Netherlands were invited to this event. And guess what… so was I!
I was extremely excited to take part in this meeting. For the first time I had
a chance to meet the representatives of polish newspapers like Goniec Polski,
Niedziel.nl and poPolsku. Which blogger doesn’t dream about a moment like that?
Ok, a regular blogger, not a celebrity-blogger. Unfortunately, I didn’t have
much time to talk. As the plane arrived earlier than planned, just after the
presentation I had to go to the security gates. I was about to take the flight!
The director of the airport and the marketing manager wished me a pleasant
flight and rushed to the ramp to greet the first arriving passengers.
The airport in
Groningen Eelde is quite small, so everything went fast and smooth. By the way…
it might be a small airport, but not an ordinary one. Did you know that the KLM’s
pilots train here? At this very airport.
Although it was
the first flight on this route, there was a lot of passengers waiting for boarding.
Both, Polish and Dutch were checking out the landing airbus. I’m not surprised
that the flight was so popular. It is a really great deal. How often can you
find a flight to a beautiful city for only €20? Not only on that one day. It’s
a very attractive and promising route. And Gdańsk is definitely worth visiting.
Let’s focus on the
flight. Just after getting on board we were greeted by the aircrew (as always)
and offered an sweet treat. I took my seat and happily noticed that the
boarding is going quite smooth without any chaos. If you’ve ever travelled with
the low-cost airlines, you know that the passengers are not always well
organized and cause a sort of traffic in the aircraft. Not this time! We could
finally take off and start our journey to Gdańsk. I looked through the window.
Wait a minute… is that the coast?? I’m so used to the view of endless fields
and forests that seeing the seashore was very refreshing. However not even half
as great as the lights of Gdańsk seen from above. Truly hypnotizing. We were
getting ready for landing and the plane took a big turn. I felt like I’m
hanging in the air staring at this marvellous web of lights. A beautiful promise
of what I was about to experience in the
coming few days.
To be continue.