When almost 2 years ago (January 2024) Donald Tusk included the PM's thesis, journalists asked him if he would usage air transport during his return home for the weekend. The answer was, of course, negative. "Faktu" reporters decided to see if Tusk kept his promise.
Donald Tusk's flight list
It turned out that during this word Prime Minister Tusk actually avoided flying to Gdańsk. It only happens occasionally. That's interesting, due to the fact that during his first tenure, he took a beating for treating a government plane as a cab home. In 1 year (2012), he flew from Warsaw to Gdańsk about 50 times, almost all week.
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister has late revealed (in consequence to a parliamentary interpelling) the list of flights of the national head of government. 1 thing is evident: Gdansk appears only erstwhile on the list of airports. It appears that the Prime Minister is either driving home by car or staying for weekends in the capital.
"From November 2023 to August 2025, while acting as Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers by Mr. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the full cost of carrying out flights utilizing chartered aircraft from PLL LOT was PLN 704,173.33 gross" - calculated Tusk officials. They besides gave a list of his home flights. It frequently includes Rzeszów (a place of meetings with Ukrainian administration and NATO representatives), Kraków, Wrocław, but only erstwhile is mentioned Gdańsk.
Tusk flew to his town on Thursday May 22, 2025. He took part in a briefing with the Navy's commanding staff following an incidental with a ship from a Russian "shadow float" and visited the Baltic Towers offshore wind tower production facility.
The Prime Minister besides flew with the HEAD status, that is, for authoritative visits. As "Fact" learned, there were 13 specified flights in 2024. Tusk went to the crisis staff in Lower Silesia (flood) and to authoritative visits with abroad guests. Gdańsk appears on the list only once, where Tusk flew to the European Forum of fresh Ideas in Sopot,
Morawiecki flew more than Tusk?
KPRM besides published a list of flights by Mateusz Morawiecki in the last weeks of its premiere (October-November 2023). Only during this period was the erstwhile Prime Minister from PiS "flyed" approx. 439 410.46 PLN gross. During little than 2 months Morawiecki was a government aircraft on 9 trips, visited Katowice, Rzeszów, Poznań and Wrocław.
