Airports gear up for post-accession increase in traffic

Warsaw's Okęcie airport opened a new terminal with budget airlines in mind at the end of March and is just about to launch the construction of Terminal 2, which, by the end of 2005, will allow Okęcie to handle 10 million passengers a year. It will also take the stress off the overcrowded Terminal 1, which designed for 3.5 million passengers a year, already handles 5 million. Other cities are not trailing behind, Poznań has already opened a new terminal and in May Bydgoszcz airport will also open its new facility. Similar investments are underway in Szczecin (Goleniów), Katowice and Kraków-Balice. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 26; www.onet.pl) K.J.