New $80 million terminal to be built at Krakow airport

A new passenger terminal at Krakow's Balice airport should be constructed by the end of 2005. The new terminal will be able to service 4 million passengers a year and the investment is estimated to be worth $80 million. American company HNTB, specializing in designing large spaces will make the master plan for the development of the airport for the next 20-25 years. The $500,000 for that project will come from the U.S. government agency TDA. HNTB is also to propose the most appropriate location of the new terminal. Next year the runway at the airport will be extended 250 meters, to enable fully laden trans-Atlantic planes to land there. Balice airport is the second largest airport in Poland, after Warsaw Okecie. Last year 420,000 domestic and international passengers were serviced by Krakow airport. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 2) A.D.