Air transport grew by 11.6% in 2016 in Poland - Eurostat

The number of air transport passengers in Poland increased by 11.6 percent y/y to 32.27 million last year, according to the EU’s statistics office Eurostat. This makes Poland the 12th largest market in the EU. According to the statistics, 1.83 Polish passengers flew domestically, 24.67 million to and from EU countries, and 5.77 million outside the bloc. Throughout the EU, the traffic increased by 5.9 percent to 973 million passengers. The busiest airport was London Heathrow (75.7 million passengers) followed by Paris Charles de Gaulle (65.8 million) and Amsterdam Schipol (63.6 million). Poland’s busiest airport, Warsaw Chopin with 12.8 million passengers took 29th place.