Polish tourism has rapidly become one of the Costa Blanca’s most important markets. Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport is now seeing record levels of connectivity with the country.
In 2025, Poland ranked as the airport’s fifth largest international source of passengers, with more than one million travellers arriving over the year. That figure represents around 5% of all passengers using the Alicante terminal, placing Poland behind only the UK, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Strong demand has prompted airlines to significantly expand their Polish operations ahead of the 2026 peak season. Airlines have launched new routes, including a direct Ryanair connection from Bydgoszcz, while Wizz Air has increased frequencies on established services such as Katowice.
Polish tourism: Costa Blanca connectivity
According to figures from the Costa Blanca Tourist Board, airports across the Valencian Community handled around 75 weekly flights to Poland last summer, with the vast majority concentrated at Alicante. This summer, Alicante will operate close to 60 weekly connections with Polish cities, representing roughly a 20 per cent increase on last year’s peak season.
The network now links the Costa Blanca directly with ten Polish airports, including major cities such as Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow and Katowice, alongside growing regional routes.
Warsaw remains the backbone of the market, with Wizz Air operating daily services to Chopin Airport and Ryanair running multiple weekly flights to both Chopin and Modlin airports. Together, the two airlines now offer around 16 flights each week between Alicante and the Polish capital, underlining how central the route has become to overall Polish traffic.
Broader trend of interest
Other cities have also seen steady growth. Airlines have upgraded Krakow to a daily service and added further frequencies to Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Rzeszów and the newly launched Bydgoszcz route, while Gdansk and Katowice now enjoy close to double-digit weekly frequencies.
Tourism officials say the surge reflects a broader trend of rising Polish interest in the Costa Blanca, driven by year-round sunshine, competitive flight prices, strong holiday infrastructure and growing Polish communities in the region. What began as a secondary market just a decade ago has now become a strategic pillar of Alicante’s international traffic.
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