The first flights of the Ryanair airline on the Wroclaw – Warszawa-Modlin route have started from the Wroclaw airport. The plane landed on the airport near Warsaw after only 40 minutes from the take-off! Although we must still take a bus or a train to get to the centre of Warsaw, the new Ryanair route is the fastest way to travel from Wroclaw to Warsaw. This option is particularly enticing because tickets cost even PLN 19.
We only managed to take seats
The first flight on the new route started from the Wroclaw airport exactly at 5.55 p.m., with around 160 persons on board. We fasten our seatbelts and begin to take off—the plane rises into the air. After several minutes of going up, it reaches the desired height and keeps it not longer than 15 minutes. Then we begin to go down and… prepare for landing. This is how we can summarise our trip from Wroclaw to the Warszawa-Modlin airport. It was a really express flight. 
(Warszawa-Modlin airport)Still, however, we are some 40 km away from the centre of Warsaw. How to get there? We have three options to choose from. The first one is a taxi from the terminal. But this option is the most extravagant one, because it costs minimum PLN 110. The travel takes around 40 minutes. The second option, which is probably the most comfortable, is the Modlinbus line, which travels from the airport to the very centre of Warsaw. This pleasure costs PLN 23 (discount price) or PLN 33 (normal price). However, if we book a ticket online in advance, we can pay even only PLN 9. The time of travel by bus is comparable to the taxi option. The third option of access to the centre of Warsaw from Modlin is the train. It costs a few dozen PLN, but in order to reach the railway station, we must arrive there by a special bus line from the terminal. And railway connections are quite rare – sometimes you have to wait for the next train even 1.5 hours.
Buses travel faster, too
At this moment, flights from Wroclaw to the Warszawa-Modlin airport are definitely the fastest way of getting to Warsaw. They certainly beat the train or the car both with regard to the costs and time of travel. They can also compete with bus travels, even though the PolskiBus carrier, which is based in Wroclaw, offers extremely attractive ticket prices. In the case of booking in advance, round-trip tickets are available even at PLN 4 (the average ticket price is PLN 30-40). Unfortunately, the travel is much longer, because it takes almost six hours to arrive in Warsaw by bus. 
Even though PolskiBus has introduced direct connections between Wroclaw and Warsaw (without Łódź as an intermediate stop) from today, it is still five hours of travel by bus. Unfortunately, there is still one more drawback - we do not arrive in the centre of Warsaw, but at the Metro Młociny bus station, so we have to invest time and money in additional travel by city transport services.
Most expensively by car, trains not very competitive
How about travelling by car? Thanks to the opening of further sections of the S8 expressway, the time of travel to Warsaw was reduced even to 4 hours, but we have to fill a tank with petrol for a round trip for even PLN 300. The price is the biggest disadvantage of this option. Unfortunately, it takes quite a long time to reach Warsaw by train – even the fastest InterCity Express trains travel more than 5 hours. The price of such travel is around PLN 130. The advantage is such that we get into the train at the Wroclaw Główny Railway Station and get off directly in the centre of Warsaw, at the Warszawa Centralna station. 
Whatever option we choose, one thing is certain – travel from the capital of Lower Silesia to Warsaw is getting better.
Janusz Krzeszowski
