Warsaw Okęcie plans to get 9 million passengers by 2010

"We anticipate that each year the airport will increase its passenger traffic by about 7%," said Piotr Nalej, commercial director of PPL. Okęcie needs new connections, but it cannot develop rapidly due to ongoing expansion. An opportunity to look for new airlines is the conference New Route, which hosted the representatives of 100 airports and 40 airlines in Warsaw and lasted until Tuesday. "We have agreed for a few meetings with the new carriers," said Nalej. He went on to say that the most desired connections would be to Far East, Australia and Dubai, which is currently constructing an enormous airport with target capacity of 190 million persons annually. "In cooperation with the main airline, LOT, we have to cater for such connections," said Nalej. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 6) M.M.