Airport News
The airport’s previous all-time high was recorded in July 2012, when 1,084 million passengers were handled.
This July, with 1.17 milllion travellers, it topped the figure by 8.7%.
“The record passenger numbers are largely thanks to low-cost airlines Ryanair and Wizz Air, which carry nearly one-fourth of all our passengers,” enthuses MichaÅ‚ Marzec, director of Chopin Airport.
“The fact that we had to accommodate these two important airlines with our terminal area reduced by almost half and the main runway closed made it all the more of a challenge to us."
Ryanair accounted for 145,500 passengers in July and Wizz Air close to 100,000.
The two airlines have been operating out of Chopin Airport since December 22, when the runway at nearby Modlin Airport was closed to passenger traffic.
Ryanair is scheduled to return to Modlin at the end of the summer season, while Wizz Air has announced it will remain at Chopin Airport for good.
So far this year Warsaw Chopin has served over 6.2 million passengers, a 6.2% increase on the corresponding period of 2012.
The total includes more than 5.5 million travellers on international flights (+14.6%) and 638,000 domestically (-35%).
Charter figures have reached 709,000, 9.4% less than in the first seven months of 2012.
