British Airways launches flights to Krakow The new flights, which will be from London Heathrow, will operate four times a week, with one-way fares (hand baggage only) from £37 per person. British Airways, which currently offers two flights a day to the Polish capital Warsaw, hopes that the new route to Krakow will prove attractive to tourists, business travellers and Poles who are living and working in the UK. There is intense rivalry between Poland's two major cities and while Warsaw is currently the centre of the country's political and economic life, Krakovians feel that, as the country's former capital and the resting place of its kings, it is their city which can claim to be the cultural heart of the country. Certainly of the two, Krakow, with the atmospheric Wavel Castle, the massive medieval market square of Rynek Glowny and the reborn former Jewish district of Kazimierz, is unquestionably the more attractive. In addition to its history, Krakow is a hub of bars, restaurants and nightclubs, and has long attracted a partying crowd. More soberly, it is also the city from which excursions can be made to the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz and to the salt mine of Wieliczka, famed for its underground statues carved out of the precious commodity - including one of the former Pope and onetime Archbishop of Krakow, Saint John Paul II.