Excellent April at Warsaw Chopin Airport

In April the Warsaw airport served more than 1.1 million passengers – 24.3% more than in the previous year. Air traffic at the larger Polish airport is bigger than expected.

The results were sensational not only in April, but in the first four months of 2017. From January to the end of April 2017 the airport served more than 4.1 million passengers – 27% more than in the corresponding period of 2016. Such dynamic growth is possible thanks to new routes. In April LOT Polish Airlines launched two new transatlantic flights from Warsaw (to Los Angeles and to Newark). 

„This year’s growth is higher than predicted. We assumed we would handle 3.8 million travellers over the first four months,” explains Mariusz Szpikowski, general director of ‘Polish Airports’ State Enterprise and Warsaw Chopin Airport director. The upcoming months are also looking good. Nine new routes are scheduled to be open and five more services will be launched on already existing connections.  

LOT Polish Airlines will start flying to Astana, Kaliningrad, Podgorica, Pula and Stuttgart. Wizz Air will offer flights to Agadir, Billund, Santander, Bratislava, Lyon and Lamezia Terme.

Four new services on existing routes will be launched by WizzAir, one by Ryanair and one by LOT. The Irish airline will start operations on the route to Szczecin, WizzAir plans on flying to Bucharest, Nice, Vilnius and Kyiv (Zhulyany) and LOT will operate to Gothenburg.  

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Warsaw Chopin Airport is the biggest airport in Poland. In 2016 the airport served 12.8 million passengers, a 14.4% increase year on year. The airport is operated by ‘Polish Airports’ State Enterprise, a company employing more than 1500 people.