Regional airports take flight
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
11.07.2014 11:00
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The business of regional airports. John Beauchamp reports.
25 million passengers pass through Poland's airports annually, with Chopin airport in Warsaw accounting for less than 40 percent of all air traffic in the country.
Wroclaw Airport. Photo courtesy: Wroclaw Airport/T. Wozny
So where are all the other passengers travelling to and from then? In this second installment of a two-part series (listen to first part here) John Beauchamp looks at the business of regional airports.
“Poland is a very big country and it’s logical that in a big country, where road infrastructure and the train network is not 100 percent optimal yet, regional airports will do a very good job,” said Bart Buyse, Poland manager for Lufthansa airlines.
But are there too many regional airports in Poland and are they breaking even? “Even smaller airports like Rzeszow can cover the cost, but the problem is that some airports are much too big for their needs,” said Marek Serafin from PRTL.pl, an aviation business website.
In this report, we also speak to Eurolot CEO Tomasz Balcerzak and Urszula Podraza, press officer for Krakow Airport, Poland’s largest regional airport.
Sound effects in this report are used under the Creative Commons licence: freesound.org users sempoo/festivus31/tanoseki