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Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA) (Polish: Port Lotniczy im. Fryderyka Chopina) is an airport located in the Okęcie borough of Warsaw, Poland. It was formerly called Okęcie International Airport. Named after Poland's famous composer Frédéric Chopin, it is the country's largest airport.
History
The land was used for aviation since 1910, while in 1927 it was decided that Okęcie would become the city's primary airport. After the completion of technical buildings and the passenger terminal in 1934, the airport took over the handling of all traffic from the Pole Mokotowskie airfield. Apart from LOT Polish Airlines, Okęcie was also home to four squadrons of the Polish Air Force and to aircraft manufacturer Doświadczalne Zakłady Lotnicze.
During World War II the airport infrastructure was almost completely destroyed. In 1969 a new international terminal was opened; domestic flights continued to operate from the facilities built on the site of the pre-war terminal. The current two story Terminal 1 was constructed in 1992 to replace the separate domestic and international terminals. The latter has since been mostly torn down with the arrivals hall being adapted in 2003 to form the temporary Etiuda Terminal for low cost carriers.
Traffic volumes
The Warsaw airport is experiencing a rapid growth of passenger traffic, even though it was ranked at the 40th place in the European Union in terms of passenger volume. According to Eurostat statistics, the airport serviced 7.08 mln passengers in 2005, up 16.2% versus 2004, with the growth rate much above the overall growth figure of 8.5% for the entire EU. The number of flights from the Warsaw airport grew 7.2% in 2005 to 131,000. The growth of traffic to EU countries was at 23%, compared to the growth of 11% to non-EU countries. In 2006 WAW carried 8.1 million pax - 14.4% more than the year before.
In 2005, the Warsaw airport thus serviced a little more than 1% of all EU air traffic by passenger volume, which totaled 705.8 mln. The Warsaw traffic of 7.08 mln compares to 67.68 mln for London Heathrow, 53.4 mln for Charles de Gaulle in Paris, and 51.8 mln for Frankfurt am Main.
Information About Terminal 1 & 2
The construction of a second terminal to deal with rising traffic is currently underway. The addition of Terminal 2 will triple the airport's capacity. The completion of Terminal 2 was scheduled for the spring 2006, but the date has slipped. Terminal 2's Arrivals Hall was opened on December 1 2006, the following time table applies:
- Terminal 2's Departures Hall, North Pier and the integrated ground traffic control tower: April 30 2007
- Terminal 2's Central and South Piers: November 30 2007
Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport has scheduled passenger service to nine domestic and 76 international destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Passengers departing go through check-in and security in old Terminal 1, which is likely to be turned into a low-cost or a domestic terminal in the future. Arriving passengers are coming through Terminal 2 arrivals.
Future
There are plans for Warsaw to get its second airport next year. A former military airport is supposed to be transformed into a low-cost civil and charter flights airport in order to take some of the load off Warsaw's Frederic Chopin. The airport will be located north of Warsaw, in the town of Modlin .Construction of the terminal and infrastructure is scheduled to begin early 2007 and the first aircraft operation is expected in the early 2008. The terminal's capacity will be at 2-3 million passengers.
Terminal 1 & 2
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Alitalia
- operated by Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Austrian Airlines
- operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- Belavia (Minsk)
- Blue1 (Helsinki)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Centralwings (Bologna, Cork , Edinburgh, Grenoble, Lille, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Rome-Ciampino, Shannon)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing , Beirut (seasonal), Belgrade , Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Larnaca, Ljubljana, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, New York-JFK, Newark, Nice, Odessa, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Venice, Vienna, Zürich)
- operated by Eurolot (Berlin-Tegel, Kaliningrad, Lviv, Prague, Vilnius)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf, Munich)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Rossiya Airlines (St. Petersburg)
- SAS Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse, Zürich)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Etiuda Terminal
All low cost carriers (excluding Centralwings) use the Etiuda terminal. It is smaller and there are less facilities, but as a result the airport taxes are lower.
- easyJet (London-Luton)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Alicante, Athens, Bergen, Copenhagen, Dublin, Malaga, Oslo, Rome-Ciampino ,Rome-Fiumicino , Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Ryanair (Dublin )
- Sky Europe (Paris-Orly)
- Wizz Air (Belfast , Bourgas , Brussels-Charleroi, Budapest ,Corfu , Dortmund, Durham Tees Valley , Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg Saeve, Grenoble, Hahn, Liverpool, London-Luton, Malmö, Oslo-Torp , Paris-Beauvais, Stockholm-Skavsta)
Domestic Terminal
- Direct Fly (Wrocław)
- LOT Polish Airlines
Cargo Airlines
References
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- Data from Poland's Office of Civil Aviation (Urząd Lotnictwa Cywilnego): (accessed October 24 2006)
- Warsaw Airport's website, section: News, item: "New Terminal 2 will be opened in November" (accessed 24 October 2006)
- Warsaw Airport's website, section: News, item: "Ryanair launches new flights to Dublin from Warsaw" (accessed October 24 2006)