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Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport

Port Lotniczy Gdańsk im. Lecha Wałęsy
Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport; Port Lotniczy Gdańsk im. Lecha Wałęsy
	File:Logo gdansk airport.jpg
	IATA: GDN; ICAO: EPGD GdańskLocation of airport in Poland;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Port Lotniczy Gdańsk Spółka z.o.o.
Location	Gdańsk, Poland
Hub for	EuroLOT;
Elevation AMSL	149 m / 489 ft
Coordinates	54°22′39″N 018°27′58″E / 54.37750°N 18.46611°E
Website	www.airport.gdansk.pl
Runways
Statistics (2012)
Number of Passengers
Number of Passengers	2 906 000
Aircraft Movements	34 360
	Source: Polish AIP at EUROCONTROL; Statistics: Airport site and the Office of Civil Aviation

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Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport (Template:Lang-pl, formerly Template:Lang-pl) (IATA: GDN, ICAO: EPGD) is an international airport located 12 km (7.5 mi) west northwest^[1] of Gdańsk, Poland, not far from the city centres of the Tricity metropolitan area: Gdańsk (12 km (7.5 mi)), Sopot (10 km (6.2 mi)) and Gdynia (23 km (14 mi)).

The airport is named after Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president. On the outside wall of the terminal building one can see the logo of the airport, which is Lech Wałęsa's actual signature, a stylized "W".

History

The airport opened in 1974 near the village of Rębiechowo (on westernmost land incorporated into the Gdańsk borough of Matarnia in 1973), to replace the previous airport located closer to the city centre in the suburb of Wrzeszcz. The airport acquired its current name in 2004. There was some controversy as to whether the name should be spelled Lech Walesa (without diacritics, but better recognizable in the world) or Lech Wałęsa (with Polish letters, but difficult to write and pronounce for foreigners, the closest English phonetic approximation being "Vawensa").

In 2006 it served 1,249,780 passengers (an increase of 84% over the previous year). Half of this number were international passengers.

Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport has operated as a private company since 1993. A new terminal was opened in 1997.

Gdańsk Airport can be used as a diversionary airport for Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport in the event of poor weather or emergencies.

A new terminal (T2) was opened ahead of Euro 2012 on April 6, 2012.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel
Eurolot	Amsterdam, Kraków, Lublin, Rzeszów (begins 29 October 2013) Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar
LOT Polish Airlines	Frankfurt, Warsaw-Chopin
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Frankfurt, Munich
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo-Gardermoen
Ryanair	Birmingham (ends 4 November 2013), Bristol, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Girona (ends 3 November 2013), Leeds/Bradford (ends 4 November 2013), London-Stansted, Manchester, Moss/Rygge, Warsaw-Modlin (begins 14 March 2014)
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen
Sprint Air	Zielona Góra
Wizz Air	Ålesund , Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bergen, Cologne/Bonn, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Glasgow-International, Gothenburg-City, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Liverpool, London-Luton, Lübeck, Malmö, Sandefjord, Stavanger, Stockholm-Skavsta, Trondheim, Turku

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
DHL Aviation operated by Exin	Leipzig/Halle
FedEx Feeder operated by Aero Contractors	Berlin-Schönefeld, Paris-Charles de Gaulle^[4]
Sprint Air	Warsaw-Chopin
TNT Airways	Katowice, Liège

Traffic statistics

Year	Passengers	Cargo (t)	Flight operations
1999	249 913	1 472	10 512
2000	269 960	1 552	11 586
2001	319 174	1 953	14 052
2002	318 033	2 211	13 450
2003	365 036	2 686	14 346
2004	463 840	2 742	17 500
2005	677 946	3 433	19 000
2006	1 249 780	4 037	24 200
2007	1 708 739	4 757	28 200
2008	1 954 166	4 610	31 000
2009	1 890 925	4 067	30 000
2010	2 232 590	4 487	32 000
2011	2 483 000	4 943	34 360
2012	2 906 000	-	37 022

Public transport

The following city bus lines connect the airport:

to Gdańsk-Centre, (Orunia Gościnna), Route 210 [1] via Gdańsk-Morena, Gdańsk Main Railway Station, old city.
to Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, Route 110 to Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz Railway Station.
to Gdynia, Route 510 to Gdynia-Redłowo Railway Station, Gdynia Main Railway Station.

A future rail line is intended to be built. On the 18th of February, 2012, Railway Gazette reported that "Poland’s Pomorskie voivodship has formally given the go-ahead for the Metropolitan Railway project to build 20 km of line to introduce a local service between Gdansk, Gdansk Airport and Gdynia by December 2015."^[5]

References

External links

[AIP-1] EAD Basic

[2] Dead link

[stats-3] Data from Poland's Office of Civil Aviation (Urząd Lotnictwa Cywilnego) Dead link

[4] ttp://www.postandparcel.info/51866/news/companies/fedex-express-expands-network-in-europe-middle-east-and-asia/

[5] ttp://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/news-in-brief-68.html

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+|[[Eurolot]]| [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Amsterdam]], [[John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice|Kraków]], [[Lublin Airport|Lublin]], [[Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport|Rzeszów]] (begins 29 October 2013) <br>'''Seasonal:''' [[Dubrovnik Airport|Dubrovnik]], [[Split Airport|Split]], [[Zadar Airport|Zadar]]
 |[[LOT Polish Airlines]]| [[Frankfurt Airport|Frankfurt]], [[Warsaw Chopin Airport|Warsaw-Chopin]]
 |[[Lufthansa Regional]]<br>{{nowrap|operated by [[Lufthansa CityLine]]}}| [[Frankfurt Airport|Frankfurt]], [[Munich Airport|Munich]]