Number of airport passengers increases
Nearly 25 million passengers were serviced at Poland’s 13 airports in 2013, a 2.2 percent increase year-on-year, according to a report by the Civil Aviation Office (ULC).
“The overall increase in 2013 was mostly due to Q4 results, when a nearly 8 percent surge was recorded compared to the corresponding period of 2012 and a 15 percent increase compared to Q4 2011,” the report said.
Out of the country’s biggest five airports, only Warsaw and Kraków saw their passenger numbers rising last year. Warsaw’s Chopin airport recorded 10.65 million passengers last year, 11.5 percent more than in 2012, while Kraków’s airport in Balice serviced 3.64 million passengers, a 6.7 percent bump.
The significant increase in Warsaw airport’s passengers was “highly influenced by the decisions of Ryanair and Wizzair to move their operations there, adding nearly 1.4 million passengers to the airport’s total number compared to 2012,” the ULC report said.
Altogether, all regional ports recorded a decrease of 3.74 percent over the past year.
