The top swarm of the most popular travel destinations in 2024 among Poles are , and . However, according to Kiwi.com, our travels do not end with Europe. We are looking for cheap connections and opportunities also to exotic places. The report by the cheap flight search engine shows that last year, Polish users of the platform made a total of over 783,274,076.00 searches – over 9% more than last year to find airline tickets at attractive prices. The new products searched for by travelers include: Togo, Central Asia with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan at the forefront, Ethiopia – in response to new connections launched from Poland, Albania – due to numerous flight promotions this year, Qatar, Malaysia, Moldova – to which new, low-budget connections have been launched and direct connections, Turkey with Istanbul – which is becoming a new hub for travel to Asia, as well as Samoa.
The record holder from Poland covered over 43,000. km, in one trip. Here’s where we traveled and for how much in 2024
Last year, the record holder from Poland covered a route of 43,704 km, going on a long journey to the island of Samoa, with stopovers in Rome, Shanghai and a day spent in Auckland. In total, every third Polish traveler (34%) booked a trip with a transfer on the way to their destination. Consumer research has shown that the biggest worries of Poles are flight cancellations and lack of refunds.
Autumn is a new summer in Poles’ travels
Last year, not only the summer months were popular among travelers from Poland. Autumn, led by September, recorded a 60% increase in bookings. compared to last year, especially the first week of the month. October was the second most popular month for travel. This is all due to much lower prices for air connections than in the peak season, which were 24% cheaper in September. in the case of European routes and 15 percent lower on intercontinental routes. And these are becoming more and more popular among Poles. According to Kiwi.com, Asia is among the rising stars of this year’s autumn, including Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and South Korea. More and more travelers also chose South America, especially Colombia. This year, the average price of a flight to Colombia was 40 percent lower. lower than last year.
Travel 2024. When did we buy tickets and when were they the cheapest?
Kiwi.com data shows that we most often bought tickets on Tuesdays after 7:00 p.m., but the cheapest tickets were usually booked on Saturdays during the day, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. The day on which the cheapest tickets were purchased was September 8. It was a ticket from Wrocław to Copenhagen for 4 euros (about PLN 17). The largest number of Polish Kiwi.com users traveled in the week of September 9, 23 and 30, and flights that were much lower than in the peak holiday season were an additional incentive. As the data shows, August was also busy for travel, especially in the weeks 12, 19 to 26. This year, Poles decided to stay longer than last year. The majority decided to stay for the length of a classic city break, about 3 days – 57%. users, the number of those who spent up to a week on site – 20 percent remained at the same level as in 2023, 16%. users decided to stay for 7 to 10 days.
In 2024, Polish Kiwi.com users paid on average EUR 112 (approximately PLN 476), EUR 22 (approximately PLN 93) more than last year, for a ticket on short routes, EUR 174 (approximately PLN 740) on medium routes – by 18 euros (about PLN 76) more – and 548 euros (about PLN 2,330) on the longest ones – by 24 euro (about PLN 102) more – intercontinental routes. Travelers enjoyed using the “Anywhere” search feature (over 35 million searches). Thanks to this option, you can set, among other things, a ticket price limit, and the search engine will find flights within your budget.
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