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Warsaw Chopin Airport Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Polish Airports State Enterprise (PPL) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Warsaw metropolitan area | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Okęcie, Włochy, Warsaw, Poland | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 29 April 1934 | ||||||||||||||
| Hub for | LOT Polish Airlines | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 110 m / 361 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°09′57″N 20°58′02″E / 52.16583°N 20.96722°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | lotnisko-chopina.pl | ||||||||||||||
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  WAW Location of airport in Poland | |||||||||||||||
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Source: www.lotnisko-chopina.pl[1] | |||||||||||||||
Warsaw Chopin Airport (Polish: Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie, Polish pronunciation: [lɔtˈɲiskɔ ʂɔˈpɛna]) (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA) is an international airport in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. It is the busiest airport in Poland and 32nd busiest airport in Europe with 14.4 million passengers in 2022,[2] handling approximately 40% of the country's total air passenger traffic. The airport is a central hub for LOT Polish Airlines as well as a base for Enter Air and Wizz Air.
Warsaw Chopin Airport covers 834 hectares (2,060 acres) of land and handles approximately 300 scheduled flights daily, including a substantial number of charters. London, Kyiv, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amsterdam are the busiest international connections, while Kraków, Wrocław, and Gdańsk are the most popular domestic ones.[3]
Founded in 1934, the airport was previously known as Warsaw-Okęcie Airport (Port lotniczy Warszawa-Okęcie) and bore the name of its Okęcie neighborhood throughout its history. It was renamed in honour of Polish composer and former Warsaw resident Frédéric Chopin in 2001. Despite the official change, "Okęcie" ("Lotnisko Okęcie") remains in popular and industry use, including air traffic and aerodrome references.
An underground railway station connecting from the airport to Warsaw's suburban rail system was opened in June 2012 in time for the Euro 2012 football championships, and on 25 November 2013, the airport announced accommodating – for the first time in history – its 10 millionth passenger in a single year.[4] A new and modern terminal was completed in 2015.[5]
The secondary international airport of the city is the much smaller Warsaw Modlin Airport, which opened in 2012 and is used for low-cost traffic.
- ^ "Warsaw Chopin Airport handled nearly 18.5 million passengers in 2023". www.lotnisko-chopina.pl.
- ^ "Lotnisko Chopina: Rok 2022 w liczbach" [Chopin Airport: 2022 in Numbers]. Lotnisko Chopina Warszawa (Warsaw Chopin Airport). 20 January 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ "Dokładnie 72 lata temu otwarto lotnisko Okęcie", www.tur-info.pl (information originally available from the official airport webpage), 6 June 2006. Retrieved 7 May 2008. (in Polish)
- ^ "Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)". Warsaw-airport.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Nowy terminal na Lotnisku Chopina już działa - Aktualności i wydarzenia - Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie". www.lotnisko-chopina.pl.
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