During 3 first quarters of 2010 Polish airports have been passed by 7,85% more passengers than a year earlier. The recent quarter of the 2010 year was the best in all history of Polish civil aviation.
The Warsaw Okecie airport serves most of the air traffic in passenger transport but its part in Polish market is diminishing, being currently about 41,83 % / Photo: PPPL
According to ULC (Polish Civil Aviation Administration) in first 9 months through Polish airports passed 15,931 millions of passengers, what makes 1,16 million more than in similar period of previous year.
Effects of current year are 1,52% below top, 2008, but in 3 quarters of this year Polish airports sent out 6,869 millions of passengers – the highest number in Polish air transport history. In contrast the rise of number of arrivals was much lower. Airports accepted 1,58% more planes than in previous year.
The Warasaw Airport (named after Frederic Chopin ) dominates on this list servicing between Jan. and Sept. 2010 6.664 millions of passengers. Second on the list is Cracow – Balice Airport (named after Johannes Paulus II) with 2,197 millions, third and following next are Katowice Pyrzowice – 1,9 million, Gdansk-Wrzeszcz with 1,7 million, Wrocław Strachowice with 1,25 million, Poznań with 1,1 million, Rzeszów with 326 thousands, Łódz with 322 thousands, Bydgoszcz with 209 thousands , Szczecin with 207,5 thousands and Zielona Góra with 2300 passengers.
