Wroclaw Nicolaus Copernicus Airport

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Port lotniczy Wrocław-Strachowice im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Terminal T2 we Wrocławiu.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EPWR
IATA code WRO
Coordinates

51 ° 6 '10 "  N , 16 ° 53' 9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '10 "  N , 16 ° 53' 9"  E
Height above MSL 123 m (404  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km west of the city center
Street ul.Skarżyńskiego 36, 54-530 Wrocław
Local transport Bus 406 from the main train station
Basic data
opening 1938
operator Port Lotniczy Wrocław SA
Terminals 1
Passengers 2,419,561 (2016)
Air freight 9,863 t (2016)
Flight
movements 		25,486 (2016)
Start-and runway
12/30 2500 m × 60 m concrete

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The Nicolaus Copernicus Airport Wroclaw ( IATA code WRO , ICAO code EPWR ) is the international airport of the Polish city of Wroclaw . It is west of the city center. Almost 2.1 million passengers were handled in 2014.

use

Today, Wroclaw Airport is the most important commercial airport in Poland after Warsaw , Krakow , Gdansk and Katowice and is used by charter companies of numerous tourism companies such as TUI , Scan Holiday , Itaka, Triada , Open Travel , Neckermann and Lufthansa due to its favorable traffic situation .

Aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320 take off and land regularly. Various airlines operate scheduled flights to destinations in Europe, Wizz Air operates a base in Wroclaw. In addition, charter flights are offered by various tour operators and airlines.

In order to do justice to future developments, an expansion of the terminal for seven million passengers per year and an extension of the runway to 3000 meters are planned.

The airport has had a freight terminal since 1999.

history

Between 1936 and 1937, the Breslau-Schöngarten airfield (Polish: Strachowice ) in what is now the Wrocław-Fabryczna district was laid out for the Air Force . On November 22, 1941, the fighter pilot Werner Mölders had a fatal accident there . The Air War School Breslau-Schöngarten - which was later renamed Air War School 5 - was located here until April 1945. The following table shows a selection of active flying units (excluding school and supplementary units) of the Air Force that were stationed here between 1939 and 1945.

From To unit
February 1939 April 1939 I./JG 331 (I. Group of Jagdgeschwader 331)
May 1939 September 1939 Staff, II./StG. 77 (II. Group of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77)
August 1939 Staff, I./KG 76 (I. Gruppe des Kampfgeschwaders 76)
September 1939 I./KG 152
Staff, I., II./KG 1

After the war ended, flight operations were temporarily relocated to Gądów Mały . With the expansion of a concrete runway in the 1950s, it served again as a regional airport for civil air traffic from 1958 with regular connections to Warsaw , Krakow and Rzeszów .

After a feasibility study by Airconsult from Frankfurt am Main in the early 1990s , the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and the City of Wrocław jointly established Port Lotniczy Wrocław SA ( Flughafen Breslau AG ) in January 1992 with the aim of upgrading Strachowice to an international airport.

The new passenger terminal was inaugurated in August 1992 and the company was granted the operator license in December. In January 1993 , the flight operations themselves were handed over by the state-owned company Polish Airports and the first international flight connection Wroclaw – Frankfurt / Main was set up. As a result, the airport was continuously expanded. On December 6, 2005, the airport was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus .

Passenger terminal

The terminal, which handles national and international flights, has reached its capacity limits. With a new terminal opened in March 2008, a capacity of 1.28 million passengers was made possible. This expansion was necessary, among other things, to meet the requirements of the Schengen Agreement with regard to the existing terminal.

The construction of a completely new terminal with the associated apron one and a half kilometers further west began in the summer of 2009 . It was one of the most important investments made during the 2012 European Football Championship . With the terminal that went into operation in March 2012, the airport can handle at least 3.3 million passengers per year and is the second airport in the country to have boarding bridges after Warsaw . In addition, the streets connecting the airport with the city center have been expanded to four lanes.

Traffic volume

Statistics air traffic Wroclaw airport
year Passengers [million] Flight movements Freight [t]
1993 0.08 4,526 986
1994 0.09 5,298 1,170
1995 0.12 5,820 1,210
1996 0.14 6,358 1,089
1997 0.15 7,808 1,116
1998 0.17 9,468 871
1999 0.19 10,333 628
2000 0.21 11,858 2,548
2001 0.25 12,476 1,172
2002 0.24 11,040 1,571
2003 0.28 12,395 1,183
2004 0.35 18,509 946
2005 0.46 20,560 1,425
2006 0.87 25.002 1,357
2007 1.28 26,948 1,431
2008 1.49 31,739 1.105
2009 1.37 25,472 1,031
2010 1.65 23,627 946
2011 1.66 25,339 957
2012 1.99 27,960 928
2013 1.92 24,960 910
2014 2.09 24,970 463
2015 2.32 24,510 319
2016 2.42 25,486 2,549
2017 2.86 27,736 1,025

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Copernicus Airport, Wrocław, Poland. In: Airport Technology. Retrieved November 27, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Germany (1937 Borders) , pp 91-92 , accessed on March 7, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d History. In: Wroclaw Airport. Retrieved November 27, 2013 .
  4. ↑ New terminal at Wrocław Airport. (No longer available online.) In: Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy. February 29, 2012, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on November 27, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.en.transport.gov.pl
  5. ↑ General traffic statistics. In: Wroclaw Airport. Accessed March 7, 2018 (English).