LOT CEO: Chopin airport must be closed

Rafał Milczarski, head of the national carrier LOT, said that the Chopin Airport in Warsaw is getting close to reaching its capacity and must be closed and replaced with a new hub in central Poland. "We are signaling the necessity of building a new central airport in Poland," Milczarski said. "It is a must from the point of view of the air transport market and the economic interests of the country." "Logic would indicate that the airport be well connected through intermodal means, should be close to a motorway and a fast railway line," he said. "It seems that the airport should be between Łódź and Warsaw." The new airport should have a capacity of 50 million people and be completed by 2022-2023.