Chopin Airport to be closed after Central Airport launch

The Warsaw Chopin Airport will be closed after the construction of the planned Central Airport, said Jacek Sasin, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. According to him, the facility needs to be closed as the development of nearby districts will block its development. According to Sasin, the central airport is a very important investment for Poland. “Those who attack this investment, attack it on the principle that everything that the Law and Justice (PiS) government does, is bad and you have to attack it,” he said in an interview with TOK FM radio. Sasin added later on, that he doesn’t want the Warsaw Chopin Airport to be shut down for good, but to focus on its “local functions” without specifying what he means by that. On Saturday, President Andrzej Duda signed the Central Communications Port Act, which approves the building of the facility. The new airport is to be built between Łódź and Warsaw and will be one of the largest airport transfer hubs in Europe. The port is intended to handle up to 100 million passengers a year and be ready in 2027.