The investmenst in the Polish airports

More and more Polish airports finance their investments with European funds. 

Recently, the airport in Gdańsk has gained the funds for the extension from the European Investment Bank. The airport in Wrocław is also waiting for the final decisions regarding this matter. 

In Gdańsk, the range of the modernization and the extension of the airport is estimated at 367 million PLN (more than 91 million Euros), and the works are planned to be finished at the beginning of 2012. The airport in Wrocław has estimated its investment at 412 million PLN (approximately 103 million Euros). The new terminal, which will have been built by 2011, is supposed to attend 2 million passengers more that the present one, which waits on 1.2 million passengers per year.

The airport in Cracow – Balice plans the extension of terminals in order to increase the capacity up to 7-8 million passengers per year. In 2009 the airport has attended to 2.6 million passengers.

The Pyrzowice Airport in Katowice plans for the next 6 years investments of 630 million PLN (157.5 million Euros). The investments concern the improvement of the airport infrastructure (runways, parking lines, car parks, etc.) Until now, the extension of the terminal has not been planned. The terminal, after the investment will serve 4.5 million passengers per year.

Plenty of the investments that are being held at the moment are related to the UEFA EURO 2012. UEFA has clearly described its requirements related to the service of the supporters that will travel by airplanes.

In 2009 Polish airports attended 16.1 million passengers in the regular traffic (which declined 9.5 % in comparison to the year 2008) and 2.9 million passengers of the charter flights (which increased 3.5 % in comparison to 2008).