Poland’s largest long-distance train operator, PKP Intercity, said on Wednesday it carried 31.2 million passengers in 2015, 5.6 million more than the previous year.
Company chairman Jacek Leonkiewicz told reporters: “We were able to revert the trend [of decreasing passengers] which has been present for the past few years.” Since the beginning of 2015 PKP Intercity observed a systematic increase in the number of passengers. It was for the first time the company gained a bigger number of passangers. In total 31.2 million customers benefited from the PKP Intercity services which means an increase of 22% in comparison with 2014.
High-speed Pendolino trains have carried 3,600,000 passengers in Poland in the first year after they were introduced, achieving a 96 percent punctuality rate, Leonkiewicz said.
He added that the company made a PLN 1.53 billion (EUR 340 million) profit in the first 11 months of 2015.
Leonkiewicz added that the increase in passengers is much higher than the increase in the operational work. “It means that we increase attendance and thus increase the effectiveness of the use of assets and significantly improve financial outcomes.”
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