Bookings started Tuesday for direct flights by LOT Polish Airlines to New York’s Newark Airport. The service is to be launched on 28 April 2017.

There will be initially four such flights a week, and five at a later date, in addition to LOT’s daily flights to New York’s JFK Airport.

The Warsaw-Newark connection is part of a new strategy by LOT, Poland’s national carrier, with 23 new routes having been introduced since the beginning of the year. Direct Warsaw-Seoul flights are to be launched on 17 October.