Poland’s Chopin Airport saw an 8.5% increase in its passenger traffic with 917,000 passengers travelling through the airport in October.
This is the highest ever traffic recorded by the airport for the month.
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The airport crossed the one-million mark between June and September.
The airport stated that while traditional airlines carried 772,000 passengers, low-cost carriers carried approximately 145,000 passengers.
Out of the 917,000 passengers, a total fo 106,000 travelled on domestic flights to/from Warsaw, which was a decrease of 3%, and almost 811,000 travelled on international flights, representing an increase of 10.2%.
The airport was served by the low-cost airline Ryanair until the end of 2013, which was responsible for a significant amount of its traffic. While Ryanair no longer flies from the airport, a comparison between last year and this year’s passenger traffic at the airport between the months of January and September shows that the numbers are rising.
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By GlobalDataChopin Airport has handled 9.1 million passengers since the beginning of the year, which includes nearly 8.1 million on international flights, a decrease of 3.4% and more than one million passengers on domestic flights, an increase of 8.3%.
The airport handled a total number of 12,500 aircrafts in the month of October, a rise of 3%.
Located in Warsaw, Chopin Airport is considered to be Poland’s busiest airport and handles less than 40% of the country’s total air passenger traffic.
Image: Poland’s Chopin International Airport recorded a passenger traffic of 917,000 travellers. Photo: courtesy of Dariusz Klosinski/Chopin airport.
