Chopin Airport served over 99% fewer flyers y/y in May

At Warsaw’s Chopin Airport in May, as few as 119 passenger air operations were carried out, a 99.2 percent decrease year-on-year and a total of 6,000 travelers used the services of the airport – 99.6 percent fewer than in the same period last year, said Chopin authorities.

“Since the beginning of 2020, 2.817 million people traveling internationally have been serviced, while in the domestic sector, 313,000 (a 54.4 percent decrease on both counts). Regular airlines were used by 2.299 million passengers (54.8 percent fewer), low-cost by 502,000 (56.9 percent lower) and charter by 328,000 (a 41.4 percent decrease). Most passengers (56.5 percent) traveled in the Schengen area and 43.5 percent chose destinations outside the Schengen countries,” states the press release.

Warsaw’s Chopin, Poland’s biggest international airport, serviced a record-high 18.86 million passengers in 2019, 6.2 percent more than in the previous year, claim airport authorities.

(ISBnews)