Business at Łódź airport begins to take off

The airport, which handled just 18,000 passengers for the whole of 2005, has grown phenomenally over the past two years, not least thanks to Dell, the US computer maker, which decided to site a computer plant in the city. Extension work is underway on the airport's second terminal and plans have already been drafted for a third terminal that would allow it to handle 1.5 million passengers as well as cargo flights. Łódź airport also benefited from the expansion of low-cost carriers such as Centralwings and Ryanair, which fly to and from Łódź. There were press reports a few weeks ago that Centralwings was to move its headquarters from Łódź to Warsaw and to scrap its Łódź flights. But Centralwings denied the rumors and says it is currently negotiating two new connections to the UK and Ireland from Łódź. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) R.M.