In 2023, PKP Intercity trains carried more than 68 million passengers, the best result in the company’s history. The good results are the result of expanding the carriage offer and improving the comfort of travel, and on the other hand, expanding sales channels.

In 2022, 59 million passengers used PKP Intercity’s services, which by mid-November 2023 was the best result in the company’s history. From January to 20 November, the company carried 60 million people, exceeding the previously unattainable number of passengers for the first time. The carrier’s representatives emphasise that a record number of passengers boarded PKP Intercity trains in each month of 2023. For 2024, the carrier forecasts exceeding 70 million passengers.

“Interest in our services is growing at a record pace, as evidenced by this year’s transport results. Year-on-year growth of several percent is an excellent result, further considering the fact that we managed to break the previously unattainable limit of 60 million passengers. Such high popularity of railways did not come from nowhere. It is the result of the hard work of the railwaymen”, said Marek Chraniuk, CEO of PKP Intercity.

In 2023, PKP Intercity trains stopped in 411 towns at 465 stations. Increasing access to rail translates into lower CO2 emissions into the environment. Indeed, rail is the most environmentally friendly means of public transport and has more than 4 times lower CO2 emissions than road transport and 5 times lower CO2 emissions than air transport. By choosing rail, passengers saved 1.67 million tonnes of CO2 in 2023.

Last year, PKP Intercity signed contracts for the modernisation and purchase of modern rolling stock worth a total of more than PLN 1.96 billion. As a result of the investments, an increasing number of connections are being served by higher-standard IC coaches. In the latest timetable, their number increased from 274 to 303.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński