Poland opens fully for direct flights within EU

Starting from September 30, 2020 direct flights to Poland remain banned only in case of 28 countries.

Poland has decided to not include any EU or EEA country in the ban list regardless of pandemic situation in these countries. Similar exemption was made for Ukraine. Full list of the 28 banned countries is presented below:

• Belize;
• Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• Montenegro;
• Brazil;
• Bahrain;
• Israel;
• Qatar;
• Kuwait;
• Libya;
• Argentina;
• Chile;
• Ecuador;
• India;
• Iraq;
• Colombia;
• Costa Rica;
• Lebanon;
• North Macedonia;
• Maldives;
• Moldova;
• Panama;
• Paraguay;
• Peru;
• Trinidad and Tobago;
• Cape Verde;
• United States;
• Oman;
• Bahamas.

With the new list in force, India was again restricted from direct flights to Poland.

Charter flights from the banned countries that were chartered by travel companies before September 30, 2020, will still be able to make direct flights to Poland.

Any country from the ban list will be able to resume flights to Poland as long as it officially notifies Poland that it guarantees to only allow passengers with a negative result of a COVID test to board the plane. To the moment only United Arab Emirates have submitted such official notification and were removed from ban list.

Passengers of direct flights to Poland remain exempt from obligatory post-entry quarantine in Poland (except travelers of direct flights from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine – post-entry quarantine obligation applies for these countries).

Restrictions on categories of foreigners eligible to enter Poland remain applicable in case of incoming travels from outside of the Schengen zone (subject to numerous exceptions).

The list of countries banned from direct flights to Poland is planned to remain in force until October 13, 2020. We expect that a new list will be published on the same date.