With 15.75 million passengers in 2017, Warsaw’s Chopin Airport is the busiest in central and eastern Europe. Last year, it overtook Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport, which served 15.4 million passengers, according to Airports Council International. As traffic at Chopin Airport continues to grow, it will meet full capacity in a few years’ time. Amid these concerns, the government plans to replace it with a new, central airport. The Central Transport Hub — as it is called — has since become a flagship project for the governing Law and Justice party, known as PiS in Polish.
Named after the Solidarity trade union that helped topple communism in Poland, the new airport will be built 40km west of Warsaw, in the municipality of Baranów in central Poland. Built on around 3000 hectares of land, it scheduled to open in 2027, with an initial capacity of 45 million passengers a year, later rising to 100 million.
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