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Frederic Chopin Airport
Airport Directory » Poland » Warsaw » Frederic Chopin AirportWarsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Polish: Port Lotniczy im. Fryderyka Chopina) (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA) is an international airport turn up in the Okęcie land of Warsaw, Poland. Formerly Okęcie International Airport, it is named after the famous Polish composer and former Warsaw inhabitant, Fryderyk Chopin. It is Poland's busiest airport, deal merely under 50% of the commonwealth's air rider traffic.
The former name, lotnisko Okęcie (Okęcie airport), stays in general use, including air traffic and airport mentions.
Warsaw Airport deals about 100 scheduled voyages daily and an of all time come up figure of charters. London, Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam are the busiest international connexions, while Kraków, Wrocław and Gdańsk are the most popular domestic 1.
History
In 1924, when urban development around Warsaw's airport at Mokotów Fields (Pole Mokotowskie) set about bearing upon air traffic, the Ministry of Railways bought district near the small town of Okęcie to build a new airport. In 1933, The Central Airport (Okęcie) took over the care of all traffic from the Pole Mokotowskie. During World War II, Okęcie was frequently used as a field between the German Army and Polish opposition and was practically destruct. After freeing, LOT Polish Airlines restarted functioning at Okęcie, using pre-war base. In 1956, upkeep of Okęcie was reassigned from LOT Polish Airlines to province disposal. In 1969 a new international depot was made to deal 1 million riders each year, few yr afterwards a separate, impermanent reaching hallway was made. Meanwhile, domestic voyages elongated to function from the installations built on the location of the pre-war depot. In 1992, a new depot (T1), with capacity for 3.5 million riders per yr, was made to replace the senesce complex from the communistic epoch. In March 2001, Warsaw Airport was renamed in honor of the Polish piano player Frédéric Chopin (though this name is about ne'er used in pattern, and most users know the location just as Okęcie). In 2005, the old reaching hallway from 70s was renovated and reopened, and under the name "Etiuda" got a impermanent depot for the low-cost traffic. Since 2007 the T2, a new constructed depot adjacent to T1, has been bit by bit taking over the major division of the traffic. In March 2009 the Etiuda depot was closed and low-cost bearers travel to T1.
Statistics
Passenger traffic ontogeny 1995-2008, from the airport's functionary web page:
- 1995 - 2,735,469
- 1996 - 3,090,321
- 1997 - 3,484,452
- 1998 - 3,815,624
- 1999 - 3,997,531
- 2000 - 4,325,814
- 2001 - 4,713,655
- 2002 - 4,936,835
- 2003 - 5,166,991
- 2004 - 6,085,111
- 2005 - 7,071,881
- 2006 - 8,101,827
- 2007 - 9,268,551
- 2008 - 9,436,958
Terminals
Terminal one was built in 1992. Initially it cared all the traffic, but currently it is assisting principally low-cost air hose (since the shutting of Etiuda Terminal on March, 2009) and some other bearers (principally SkyTeam confederation fellow member).
Terminal two is a new depot which went full operational on March 12, 2008, two yr after the originally be after opening date. The reaches area was in functioning from mid-2007 but jobs with safety enfranchisement and dissensions between the airport and the building company detained full functioning. The new depot is substantially bigger than the older Terminal one and has taken over going for all Star Alliance and OneWorld air hose and a few other bearers.
The new Southern Pier of the T1+T2 complex is now under building.
Future auxiliary airport at Modlin
Main article: Modlin AirportThe long looked transition of a former armed forces field northward of the town into Warsaw's 2nd international airport for low-cost bearers is, as of May 2008, still looking authority approving on environmental dry land, but due to propinquity to bird migration routes and protected aviary wetlands, may be hold up or in the end barricaded. Modlin is also to service charter bearers and in some vague hereafter, load, but due to chronic hold up in get down involved building, is not anticipated to get operational until 2011 at the earliest. Meanwhile other regional armed forces airports at Sochaczew and Radom are being made by their local government and private investors to contend with Modlin for Warsaw-region low cost rider traffic and shipment.
Ground transportation system
Bus
Warsaw town center is able to be hit by the bus line: 175 and 188 during the solar day and N32 at nighttime. There is also an additional line 148 that supplies access to Ursynów (a southern division of Warsaw) and Praga (an eastern division of Warsaw). The menu is PLN 2.8 one-way for all the lines (solar day and nighttime).
Train
A railroad terminal is turn up under Terminal two and a fast connexion to the town center (Warszawa Śródmieście station) is under building. No definite date of finishing the works has been constituted as of July 2008.
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