Warsaw
FUTURE FOOTBALL FEVER The UEFA European Football Championships, hosted by Poland and Ukraine, kick off in Warsaw on June 8, 2012. During the tournament the airport will have to cope with a massive spike in traffi c. According to Nalej, infrastructure development projects include: • The full-scale repair of runways and taxiways
• Completion of the central and south piers
• Modernisation of the old terminal, which is to be completely integrated with the new complex to form Terminal A
• Increased retail areas • A direct train link from Chopin Airport to the city centre
• Constructing a second fi ve-star Marriott Renaissance hotel, in addition to the existing one
• A new project to integrate aircraft fuel supply
• Establishing the Chopin Airport City
Image courtesy of Warsaw Airport.
with the delayed B787 delivery, it is rapidly expanding its network. It recently launched new services to Yerevan, Bratislava, Tbilisi, Beirut, Cairo and Damascus.” LOT also offers fl ights to New York, Chicago and Toronto, but the carrier’s most intriguing connection is a new route to Hanoi, the fl ourishing Vietnamese capital. “That is the airport’s only destination in the Far East,” says Nalej, “We intend to expand our network to include more destinations in that region. Also carriers and airports from the Middle East region are growing fast and we hope to persuade them to launch a new service to Warsaw in the near future.
www.routesonline.com Airline landscape
Other airlines have also been adding new services at Warsaw. These include Norwegian Air Shuttle (Palma de Mallorca), Wizz Air (Eindhoven and Venice Treviso), and Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca). “We have also welcomed new airlines on existing routes – for example, Lufthansa Italia on the Milan Malpensa route and Blue Air to Larnaca. There have also been increased frequencies on some routes, such as Madrid and Barcelona, both with two weekly fl ights,” says Nalej.
Despite these ups, there have also been some downs in 2010. “This summer we lost Poprad, operated by Danube Wings, but we hope they will return. We no longer
have a connection to Turku, which was operated by Wizz Air. We’ve also lost Stuttgart from Germanwings and Łódź, which Jet Air used to service.” Interestingly, while LCCs are in the ascendency elsewhere, at Warsaw their market share is actually contracting. “This is mainly due to the development of legacy traffi c and constant expansion of charter traffi c. Some of the low-cost carriers cancelled their services from and to Warsaw and some of them limited their operations. Comparing the January to July period in 2009 and the same time in 2010, the share of low-cost traffi c of overall scheduled traffi c has declined by 3.5%. On the other hand the existing low-cost
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