A good start for Warsaw Chopin Airport in 2018

January 2018 was yet another month of increases at Chopin Airport. Warsaw airport has handled 1.121.000 passengers, or more than 16 percent more than in January 2017. 118.5 thousand passengers traveled in domestic traffic (by 13 percent less than last year) and over 1 million in international traffic (increase by over 21%). In 2018, further increases in the number of passengers are expected, mainly thanks to the connections opened by PLL LOT - a national carrier - including to Singapore, Moscow-Domodedovo, Skopje, or Podgorica.

"We are very pleased with the continuous increase in the number of passengers at Warsaw Chopin Airport," says Hubert Wojciechowski, Director of Marketing and PR Office at Chopin Airport. "We note that more and more passengers use the services of our airport as a transfer point on their next journey. This means that Warsaw is strengthening its position as a hub in Central Europe and Eastern. The increase in the number of passengers, while exhausting the operational capabilities of Chopin Airport, is a very serious argument pointing to the urgent need to create a new, large, modern airport, which will become the most important transport hub in this region of the continent."

It is worth noting that Warsaw Chopin Airport, according to the ACI report, ranked first in terms of passenger numbers among EU airports, in group 2 (handling between 10 and 25 million passengers). In the classification covering all the European airports (to which ACI also includes Turkey and Israel), Warsaw airport, with an increase of 22.7 percent, also took second place in group 2 ex aequo with the airport from St. Petersburg.