Poland Approves Plan to Build $9.6 Billion Central Airport

Facility aims to handle up to 100 million passangers per year
Warsaw’s Okecie airport faces closure under government plan

A logo for LOT Polish Airlines SA sits on the vertical stabilizer of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft on the tarmac at Warsaw Chopin airport in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015. Polish national airline LOT has lost its chief executive officer as the government debates whether to sell part of the company to an outside investor.

Photographer: Piotr Malecki/Bloomberg

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By Marek Strzelecki

November 7, 2017 at 4:21 PM UTC

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Poland will build central airport for as much as 35 billion zloty ($9.6 billion) by 2027, reversing a strategy based on expanding smaller regional ports with the help of funds provided by the European Union.

The facility, which will probably be located in central Poland between Warsaw and Lodz, will be capable of servicing as many as 100 million passengers per year, or three times Poland’s current needs, under a plan approved by the government on Tuesday. Polish airports serviced 34 million passengers in 2016, an increase of 11 percent from a year earlier.