Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – There were crowds at the Polish airports in the first half of the year. However, it may be difficult to repeat these records.
Poland’s nine biggest airports had 6.67m passengers in the first half of the year, or 33 percent more than a year ago. Some airports noted extraordinary increases but it was often due to the low base effect or thanks to one airline. Irish Ryanair helped improve the results of airports in Bydgoszcz, Szczecin and Lodz.“It won’t be possible to keep similar dynamics in upcoming months”, Andrzej Ilkow, the deputy CEO of Bydgoszcz airport admitted.But next year he expected further growths thanks to the launch of NATO training base or Sharp investment near Torun. The Lodz airport noted record increases and had nearly 82,000 passengers while in the same period of last year it was below 1,000. Some airports have no technical possibilities to have more passengers.“We must change into a big construction site in upcoming years to be able to develop”, Wlodzimierz Machczynski, the CEO of the Gdansk airport admitted.