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Warsaw Chopin Airport

Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie
Summary
Airport typeMilitary / Public
OperatorPolish Airports State Enterprise (PPL)
ServesWarsaw, Poland
LocationOkęcie, Włochy, Warsaw, Poland
Opened29 April 1934
Hub forLOT Polish Airlines
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL110 m / 361 ft
Coordinates52°09′57″N 20°58′02″E / 52.16583°N 20.96722°E / 52.16583; 20.96722
Websitelotnisko-chopina.pl
Map
WAW is located in Poland
WAW
WAW
Location of airport in Poland
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 2,800 9,186 Asphalt
15/33 3,690 12,106 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers15,750,000
Passenger change 15-16Increase22%
Aircraft movements129,995
Movements change 14–15Increase2.6%
Source: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[1]

Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Template:Lang-pl, Polish pronunciation: [lɔtˈɲiskɔ ʂɔpɛna v varˈʂavʲɛ]) (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA), more commonly referred to as Chopin Airport or Warsaw-Chopin Airport, is an international airport located in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. As Poland's largest, covering 834 hectares (2,060 acres) of land, and busiest airport, Warsaw Chopin handles just under 40% of the country's air passenger traffic. Warsaw Chopin handles approximately 300 scheduled flights daily and an ever-rising number of charters. London, Chicago, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amsterdam are the busiest international connections, while Kraków, Wrocław, and Gdańsk are the most-popular domestic ones.[2]

Warsaw Chopin Airport is, with almost 16 million passengers in 2017, the busiest airport in the newer EU member states.

Formerly known as Warsaw-Okecie Airport (Port lotniczy Warszawa-Okęcie) or Okecie International Airport, the airport bore the name of its Okęcie neighborhood throughout its history, until its renaming for Polish composer and former Warsaw resident Frédéric (Fryderyk) Chopin in 2001. Despite the official change, "Okecie" ("Lotnisko Okęcie") remains in popular and industry use, including air traffic and aerodrome references.

An underground railway station connected 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.[3]

The second international airport of the city is the much smaller Warsaw Modlin Airport, which opened in 2012 and is used for low-cost traffic.

History

The pre-war and wartime Okęcie (1934–45)

In 1924, when urban development around Warsaw's aerodrome at Mokotów Fields (Pole Mokotowskie) began affecting air traffic, the Ministry of Railways purchased land near the village of Okęcie to construct a new airport. On 29 April 1934, the Polish president, Ignacy Mościcki, opened Central Airport (Okęcie), which from then on took over the handling of all traffic from the former civilian aerodrome at Pole Mokotowskie. [citation needed] In the weeks after its opening, a journalist from the magazine Flight and Air Defence of Poland reported the following: "In a large pastel-coloured hall, we see a ticket office, a customs post, telegraph and post office, police station and a kiosk with various newspapers etc... On the first (upper) floor, there is a restaurant and viewing terrace, from where one can see the entire territory of the airport." [citation needed]

With the building finished in 1933, the new modernist premises of the Warsaw airport cost the State Treasury around 10 million Zloty. The new complex included three hangars, exhibition space, garages, and of course a large, modern terminal building with a concrete taxiway complete with stands for a number of aircraft. Warsaw thus received an airport befitting of any European capital city. In its first year of operation, Okęcie served around 10,750 passengers. After the aerodrome's civilian buildings were finished, the military potential of the site began to be developed, with a Polish Air Force base opening soon after; later followed the buildings of the Institute of Aviation, PZL aircraft-building plant and other pieces of aviation infrastructure. [citation needed]

The first British Airways flight from Warsaw to London waits alongside a LOT Junkers Ju 52 at Okęcie in April 1939

As air traffic and the number of aircraft movements grew greatly year on year, the authorities identified the need to develop a new system for air traffic navigation and control. The state, as a result, marked a number of air corridors for use by civil airlines, whilst radio stations were established to regulate such traffic and divert it away from sensitive and restricted areas. By 1938, the airport was equipped with 16 immigration checkpoints for passengers both departing and arriving on international flights. These posts were then manned by the Polish Border Guard. By 1937, the airport had also received new radio navigation equipment and was using Lorenz beam technology to assure the safety of landings and approaches over Warsaw, during periods of poor visibility or bad weather. On the eve of World War II, Okęcie airport was connected by regular scheduled flights with 6 domestic and 17 foreign airports, among which were Tel-Aviv (then in Palestine) and Beirut in Lebanon; there were also plans to soon begin transatlantic service to the United States.[4]

During World War II, Okęcie was often used as a battleground between the German Army and Polish resistance and was almost completely destroyed. From the very first day of the war in Poland, Okęcie became a target for bombing by the German Luftwaffe. Later, once Warsaw was occupied by the German army, the airport became the base for two German aviation schools and a Junkers aircraft repair works. During this period, the airport also received its first concrete runway and taxiways; these were left undamaged until the very final days of the war, despite numerous attacks by both the Home Army and Soviet Armed Forces. However, with the German withdrawal from the city, both Okęcie's remaining buildings and ground infrastructure (including the runway) were intentionally destroyed in order to deny their use to the advancing Red Army and Polish First Army.[5]

Rebuilding Okęcie in the years 1945–89

The destroyed PZL works at Warsaw Okęcie in 1939.

After the war, LOT Polish Airlines resumed operations at Okęcie using what was left of the pre-war infrastructure; the airline was also responsible for initiating reconstruction efforts at the airport, and soon, within two years, a new terminal, control tower and a number of stands for aircraft based at and visiting the new Okęcie had been completed.[6]

By the end of the 1940s, the airport had been reconnected with most of Poland's most important cities and a number of international services, including those to Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Brussels, Copenhagen, Prague and Stockholm. In the first half of the 1950s, this development continued and the airport authorities continued to hold talks with many international airlines on the subject of opening routes to Warsaw. In 1956, maintenance of Okęcie was transferred from LOT Polish Airlines to state administration, then later in 1959, on the government's initiative, a decision was made to reconstruct the airport's main terminal; this however, did not actually take place until 1964.[7]

The new civil aviation authority began to exercise control over airports, air corridors and routing, ground aviation infrastructure and the responsibility for entering into and signing aviation accords with other states. This gave the authority effectively complete control over Warsaw's airport.

In 1961, the airport's management board decided to purchase a radar for civilian air traffic control and to begin the expansion of the airport in Warsaw. The winning design for a new terminal by Jan and Krystyna Dobrowolski referred to modern architectural solutions used in many western airports. In planning, it was ordered that the initial capacity of the new 'International Airport Station' (Międznarodowy Dworzec Lotniczy) should be about 1 million passengers a year. [citation needed] In 1962, work began on the technical design of the new terminal, and two years later, construction started. At the same time on the opposite side of the airport, a new Air Traffic Control Centre (CKRL) was established along with the airport control tower. At this time, new radar, navigational and lighting systems for operations were also purchased. Runways 1 and 3 were also thoroughly renovated. [citation needed]

The 1960s terminal buildings at Warsaw's Chopin airport in 2003 (since demolished)

In 1969, the new terminal officially became operational, with it celebrating, just one year later, its first million passengers served. However, it soon became apparent that the new terminal was too small. As a result of this situation, and to alleviate the problems it was causing, part of the airport's administrative office was moved to the south of the terminal and into makeshift buildings and the old airport premises on Ul. 17 Stycznia. A new separate, temporary arrival hall was then built. Meanwhile, domestic flights continued to operate from the facilities built on the site of the pre-war terminal. Some years later, in 1979, a new arrivals hall, the so-called 'Finnish Hall' opened. Thereafter, there was a further upgrade to the airport's runways, and after the renovation of runways 1 and 3, runway 2 was re-designated as taxiway 'Delta'; this was because of its location on the same axis as a number of major obstacles, most notably the Palace of Culture and Science and Warsaw radio mast.

Political events of the early 1980s caused a decline in passenger traffic, but already by 1983, there was renewed growth, especially on international routes. However, it turned out that the existing airport infrastructure was not able to handle as much traffic as the airport was dealing with by this period; thus, in November 1986, the Government decided to expand the airport. In the face of economic reform in the late 1980s, there was also a need to create a new managing body for airports and air traffic in Poland. In October 1987, a new company, the State Enterprise "Polish Airports" (PPL), an independent, self-governing and self-financing entity of the national economy, replaced the state aviation administration as the manager of the airport. The company was managed under the authority of the minister responsible for communications and transport was responsible.[8]

Post-communist development (since 1989)

Ongoing construction of Terminal 2 at Warsaw Chopin in 2005.

It was only in 1990, after the fall of communism, that a new terminal started to be built at Okęcie. The main contractor was the German company Hochtief, and the work involved some 164 subcontractors, of which 121 were Polish companies. After 24 months, the new terminal was completed at the expense of some 300 million German marks. A network of multi-storey car parks and access roads was also built, and with their completion, Warsaw gained a modern terminal with a capacity of 3.5 million passengers a year. The terminal began to operate on 1 July 1992, with the first travellers to use it being those returning from Athens, Bangkok, Dubai and New York. Ten days later, the airport celebrated the first passengers departing from the new Warsaw Okęcie. In the departure hall at that time, there were 26 check-in desks; however, in subsequent years of operation, passenger traffic grew rapidly. In 1993, the airport handled nearly 2.2 million passengers, while six years later, this figure climbed to 4 million. Eventually, the decision was taken to increase the number of available check-in desks to 33, and then to 46, consequently increasing the terminal's capacity to 6 million passengers a year.

In March 2001, Warsaw Airport was renamed in honour of the renowned Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin (though this name is almost never used by residents of Warsaw, and most frequent visitors know the airport simply as Okęcie). A year later, a tender for the construction of a new passenger terminal at Warsaw airport was announced, this was then won by the Polish-Spanish consortium of Ferrovial Agromán, Budimex and Estudio Lamela, who joined in 2004 to implement the largest Polish investment in civil aviation history, Chopin Airport's long-awaited 'Terminal 2'. By 2006, the arrivals level of this new terminal had been inaugurated, with the departures level finally, after a long delay due to certification issues, being opened in late 2007. In this same year, the low-cost Etiuda terminal was also opened; this, however, was closed again just two years later in 2009, with all operations being transferred to terminals 1 and 2. The final and most recent developments in the airport's history came in the period covering 2010–2011, when the airport's new central and south piers were finished (left unfinished until the possibility of connecting them with the north pier appeared) and opened along with a redesigned terminal complex which saw the airport's two terminals merged to form a single 'Terminal A' complex. Despite this, work continues on reconstructing taxiways, ramps and access roads, the most important projects of which will see the airport connected to Poland's expressway network via the S79 Airport Expressway and S2 Southern Warsaw Bypass.[9] An underground railway station connected to Warsaw's suburban rail system was opened in June 2012 in time for the UEFA Euro 2012 football championships.

As of July 2015, the airport is managed by the State Enterprise "Polish Airports" (PPL), which exists since 1987 and deals with construction and operation of airports and provision of services to passengers and airlines. PPL is owned and managed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, in line with the 1987 Act.[10]

Runways

Satellite image of the airport before reconstruction of the main terminal complex commenced in 2006

The airport has two intersecting runways, whose configuration and available taxiways under current rules permit 34 passenger operations (takeoffs or landings) per hour.[2]

Preferential runways

The following preferential runway system has been established for the airport:[11]

Arrivals

  1. Runway 33
  2. Runway 11
  3. Runway 15
  4. Runway 29

Departures

  1. Runway 29
  2. Runway 15
  3. Runway 33
  4. Runway 11

Between 20:00 and 04:00 hours (in winter: 21:00 and 05:00), Runway 15/33 is used, weather and technical considerations permitting.[11]

Terminals

Overview

Check-in hall at Terminal A

In 2010, the designation of terminals had changed and the entire former Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 complex is now designated as Terminal A divided into five check-in areas (A, B, C, D, E) in two main halls. The complex contains 116 check-in desks. Additionally LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Finnair, Turkish Airlines, KLM and Air France passengers can use one of the 23 self-service check-in stands located in the Terminal.[12] There are 45 passenger gates, 27 of which are equipped with jetways.

South hall

The south hall contains the check-in areas A and B (former Terminal 1) was built in 1992 with a capacity for 3.5 million passengers per year to replace the aging complex from the communist era. Initially, it handled all the traffic. Since 2007, the T2, a newly built terminal adjacent to T1, has been gradually taking over the major part of the traffic. September 13, 2012 saw the beginning of reconstruction of the south hall. On 23 May 2015 the redesigned, reconstructed south hall was fully integrated into the 'Terminal A' complex. Before its refurbishment the south hall was very recognizable by Polish passengers for its very characteristically dark red colour of many construction elements, including the roof that covered the departure hall, pillars, frames of doors and windows and other. In Polish it was called "buraczkowy", which simply means in the colour of beets in English.

North hall

This new terminal (formerly known as Terminal 2), featuring the check-in areas C, D and E, became fully operational on 12 March 2008, two years after the originally planned opening date. The arrivals area was in operation from mid-2007 but problems with safety certification and disagreements between the airport and the construction firm delayed full operation. The new terminal is considerably larger[13] than the older Terminal 1 and has taken over departures for all Star Alliance and Oneworld airlines and a few other carriers. In August 2014 Chopin Airport as one of the first European airports offered in Terminal A free unlimited Internet access to all its passengers and visitors.[14]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Warsaw–Chopin:[15]

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Athens
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
airBaltic Riga
Air Cairo Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh[16]
Air Canada Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson (begins 3 June 2018) [17]
Air China Beijing–Capital
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta Seasonal charter: Malta
Alitalia Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Belavia Minsk
British Airways London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Antalya, Bodrum
Czech Airlines Prague
El Al Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Ellinair Seasonal: Heraklion, Thessaloniki
Emirates Dubai–International
Enter Air Seasonal: Agadir, Antalya, Batumi, Catania, Enfidha, Faro, Heraklion, Karpathos, Mombasa, Palma De Mallorca, Podgorica
Seasonal charter: Almeria, Athens, Barcelona, Bodrum, Burgas, Chania, Colombo, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Dubai–International, Dubrovnik, Fuerteventura, Fujairah, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Funchal, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Olbia, Eilat, Paphos, Patras, Rhodes, Seville, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Varna, Zakynthos
Finnair Helsinki
KLM Amsterdam
LOT Polish Airlines Amsterdam, Astana, Barcelona, Beijing–Capital, Belgrade, Berlin–Tegel, Billund (begins 2 July 2018),[18] Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Chicago–O'Hare, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdańsk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hannover (resumes 4 June 2018),[19] Istanbul–Atatürk, Kaliningrad, Katowice, Kaunas (begins 21 May 2018),[20][21] Kharkiv, Kiev–Boryspil, Kiev–Zhuliany, Košice, Kraków, Larnaca, Ljubljana, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lviv, Madrid, Milan–Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow–Domodedovo (begins 6 March 2018),[22][23] Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Munich, Newark, New York–JFK, Nice, Nuremberg (begins 7 May 2018),[24] Odessa, Oslo–Gardermoen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Poznań, Prague, Riga, Rzeszów, Seoul–Incheon, Singapore (resumes 15 May 2018),[25][26], Skopje (begins 1 June 2018)[27], Sofia, St. Petersburg, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stuttgart, Szczecin, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Wrocław, Yerevan, Zagreb, Zaporizhia (begins 2 July 2018),[28] Zielona Góra, Zürich
Seasonal: Dubrovnik (begins 3 May 2018),[29] Palanga, Podgorica, Pula, Split, Zadar
Seasonal charter: Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Cancun, Denpasar/Bali, Ho Chi Minh City, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, Varadero
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Nordica Tallinn[30]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Málaga, Oslo–Gardermoen
Seasonal: Barcelona
Nouvelair Seasonal charter: Djerba, Enfidha, Monastir
Pegasus Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya, Bodrum
Qatar Airways Doha
Ryanair Szczecin
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen
Small Planet Airlines Poland Seasonal: Barcelona, Burgas, Heraklion, Rhodes, Santorini, Varna, Zakynthos
Seasonal charter: Antalya, Bodrum, Corfu, Chania, Hurghada, Kos, La Palma, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Samos, Sharm el-Sheikh, Thessaloniki, Tirana
SmartWings Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Split, Tenerife–South
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal charter: Cancún, Mauritius, Punta Cana[31]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk
Travel Service Polska Seasonal: Alicante, Antalya, Barcelona, Batumi, Bodrum, Burgas, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik (begins 31 May 2018),[32] Enfidha, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, İzmir, Kavala, Kefalonia, Krabi, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Málaga, Menorca, Olbia, Palermo, Rhodes, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Varna, Zakynthos
Seasonal charter: Holguin, Montego Bay, Punta Cana, Santa Clara, Varadero, Zanzibar
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev–Boryspil
Ural Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Agadir, Basel/Mulhouse, Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Bergen, Billund, Birmingham, Bordeaux,[33] Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava,[34] Catania, Charleroi, Doncaster/Sheffield, Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Kiev–Zhuliany, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, Lisbon, Liverpool, London–Luton, Lyon, Malmö, Malta, Naples, Nice, Porto, Podgorica (begins 18 June 2018),[35] Reykjavík–Keflavik, Rome–Fiumicino, Sandefjord, Santander, Stockholm–Skavsta, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Vilnius
Seasonal: Alghero, Alicante, Burgas, Corfu, Grenoble, Ovda, Turin, Split, Verona
WOW air Reykjavík–Keflavik

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines BelgiumBerlin–Schönefeld, Liège, Moscow–Sheremetyevo
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle
FedEx ExpressParis–Charles de Gaulle
GenexMinsk
SprintAirBydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kiev–Zhuliany, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław
UPS Airlines[36]Almaty, Chengdu, Cologne/Bonn, Hong Kong, Shanghai–Pudong

Statistics

Terminal A
Cargo Terminal
Apron view
Air traffic control tower

Warsaw Chopin Airport was the 36th busiest airport in Europe in 2017.

Traffic

Traffic by calendar year
Passengers Change in number of passengers from previous year Passenger aircraft movements
2005 7,071,881 115,320
2006 8,101,827 Increase014.6% 126,534
2007 9,268,476 Increase014.4% 133,146
2008 9,460,606 Increase02.1% 129,728
2009 8,320,927 Decrease012.0% 115,934
2010 8,712,384 Increase04.7% 116,691
2011 9,337,734 Increase07.2% 119,399
2012 9,587,842 Increase02.7% 118,320
2013 10,683,706 Increase011.4% 123,981
2014 10,590,473 Decrease00.9% 121,913
2015 11,206,700 Increase05.8% 124,700
2016 12,835,560 Increase014.5%
2017
[37] 		15,750,000 Increase022%
Source: Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie[38]


Routes

Top 5 scheduled destinations (2014)[39]
Rank Airport Passengers Carriers
1 London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick, London-Luton 759,000 British Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air, Norwegian Air Shuttle
2 Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Beauvais 519,000 Air France, LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air
3 Frankfurt 446,000 Lufthansa, LOT Polish Airlines
4 Amsterdam 370,000 LOT Polish Airlines, KLM
5 Gdańsk 277,000 LOT Polish Airlines, Ryanair

Flights

Busiest routes at Warsaw Chopin Airport
City Airport(s) Weekly Departures
(July 2015) 		Weekly Departures
(July 2016) 		Weekly Departures
(July 2017) 		Airlines
London Heathrow Airport, Luton Airport, Gatwick Airport
63
74*
58
British Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle*, Wizz Air
Paris Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Beauvais, Paris-Orly
55*
49
50
Air France, LOT Polish Airlines, Transavia France*, Wizz Air
Kraków Kraków
49
49
56
LOT Polish Airlines
Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport
49
49
49
LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa
Gdańsk Gdańsk
46
42
63*
LOT Polish Airlines, Ryanair*
Wrocław Wrocław
46
42
63*
LOT Polish Airlines, Ryanair*
Prague Prague
45
50
45
Czech Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines
Brussels Brussels, Charleroi
43
43
44
Brussels Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air
Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam
41
42
42
KLM, LOT Polish Airlines
Munich Munich
40
42
42
LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa
Vienna Vienna Airport
35
35
35
Austrian Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines
Copenhagen Copenhagen
34
38
39
LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines
Budapest Budapest
30
32*
32*
LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air*
Moscow Moscow Sheremetyevo
28
35
35
Aeroflot, LOT Polish Airlines
Stockholm Stockholm-Arlanda, Stockholm-Skavsta
27
28
27
LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air
Rzeszów Rzeszów
27
27
30
LOT Polish Airlines
Zürich Zürich
14
33
32
LOT Polish Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines
Kiev Kiev-Boryspil, Kiev-Zhuliany
14
27
38*
LOT Polish Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, Wizz Air*

Ground transportation

Warsaw Chopin Airport is located in the south-west part of Warsaw, approximately 10 km (6.21 mi) from the city centre. The airport is easy to access by train, local buses or taxi.

Rail

Two SKM trains at Warsaw Chopin Airport railway station.

A rail link has been recently built at a cost of 230 million złoty to connect the airport's Warsaw Chopin Airport railway station (built as part of Terminal A) to the Warsaw city centre.[40] The station was opened on 1 June 2012, with service starting on the same day.[41] Trains are operating every 15 minutes.

Car

Żwirki i Wigury, named after the celebrated aviators who won the Challenge International de Tourisme in 1932, is the main artery leading to the airport.[42]

Bus

Warsaw city center can be reached by the bus lines: 175 and 188 during the day and N32 at night. There is also an additional line 148 that provides access to Ursynów (a southern part of Warsaw) and Praga (an eastern part of Warsaw). Bus 331 connects with underground station Metro Wilanowska.[42]

Accidents and incidents

See also

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